Jul Tirler

The research project examines notions of collectivity, based on three cinematic-political practices: In 1967 filmmakers and striking factory workers meet in Besançon, France, and founded Les Groupes Medvedkine - collectively making films until 1972. Between 1979 and 1983, Adriana Monti produced the film Scuola senza fine (School without end) in a collaborative process with unemployed women in a suburb of Milan, Italy. In 2002, the feminist collective Precarias a la deriva organised and audiovisually recorded weekly strolls through Madrid, during which a changing group of women reflected on their precarious working and living conditions. Drawing on feminist critique of collectivity as well as on approaches in the critique of representation, this project explores the conditions under which emancipatory collectivity can come into being, considering questions of positioning, privilege, power relations, and representation.