NIRE AMAREN ETXEA: TRACING FEMINIST GENEALOGIES IN LA MARCHE DES FEMMES À HENDAYE, MANIFESTATION À HENDAYE AND LES MÈRES ESPAGNOLES

TY - JOUR

T1 - NIRE AMAREN ETXEA: TRACING FEMINIST GENEALOGIES IN LA MARCHE DES FEMMES À HENDAYE, MANIFESTATION À HENDAYE AND LES MÈRES ESPAGNOLES

AU - Murray, Ros

AU - Santesteban, Arantza

PY - 2021/11/25

Y1 - 2021/11/25

N2 - This article deals with three works made in 1975 by the feminist video collectives Les Insoumuses and Vidéa: La Marche de Femmes à Hendaye, Manifestation à Hendaye and Les Mères Espagnoles. It explores how these Parisian feminist video collectives engaged with Basque political activism in the wake of the final assassinations of the Franco regime in 1975. We trace the genealogies of these video tapes as well as those of the activist collectives that they represent, firstly looking at the complex relationship between feminist, anti-fascist and anti-imperialist collec-tives. We then look at these works as particular, situated examples of videographic border-crossing, looking at the relationship between borders and the frame. Through an analysis of faces and faciality, we look at how the videos develop an aesthetics and politics of resistance, and we analyse how they ultimately offer an alternative, politi-cised vision of motherhood, echoing and reinforcing the vision of motherhood offered by the mothers who are interviewed on the tapes. Ultimately the article argues that the prism offered by these extraordinary examples of DIY, feminist video-activism give us new insights into the ways in which we might rethink solidarity, offering al-ternative forms of genealogy through which to approach collective activism, echoing video genealogies, with their complex relationship to other forms of activist film, and feminist genealogies, with their sometimes fraught rela-tionship with anti-fascist and leftist political activism in the context of the Long Sixties.

AB - This article deals with three works made in 1975 by the feminist video collectives Les Insoumuses and Vidéa: La Marche de Femmes à Hendaye, Manifestation à Hendaye and Les Mères Espagnoles. It explores how these Parisian feminist video collectives engaged with Basque political activism in the wake of the final assassinations of the Franco regime in 1975. We trace the genealogies of these video tapes as well as those of the activist collectives that they represent, firstly looking at the complex relationship between feminist, anti-fascist and anti-imperialist collec-tives. We then look at these works as particular, situated examples of videographic border-crossing, looking at the relationship between borders and the frame. Through an analysis of faces and faciality, we look at how the videos develop an aesthetics and politics of resistance, and we analyse how they ultimately offer an alternative, politi-cised vision of motherhood, echoing and reinforcing the vision of motherhood offered by the mothers who are interviewed on the tapes. Ultimately the article argues that the prism offered by these extraordinary examples of DIY, feminist video-activism give us new insights into the ways in which we might rethink solidarity, offering al-ternative forms of genealogy through which to approach collective activism, echoing video genealogies, with their complex relationship to other forms of activist film, and feminist genealogies, with their sometimes fraught rela-tionship with anti-fascist and leftist political activism in the context of the Long Sixties.

KW - Feminist genealogies

KW - Feminist video activism

KW - Anti-Francoist activism

KW - Les Insoumuses

KW - Vidéa

KW - Juan Paredes Manot “Txiki”

KW - Ángel Otaegui

M3 - Article

SN - 2792-677X

VL - 02

SP - 5

EP - 39

JO - ZINE

JF - ZINE

ER -