My multi-layered hypothesis is that feminist material-discursive practices enacted either by documentary filmmakers, filmed subjects or film spectators, have effects on the visualisation of in/equalities in and through the films content and form, but also in and through their contexts of production and reception. In order to identify these effects, contemporary documentary cinema that deals with social inequalities rooted in, but not limited to, gender, can be analysed as a diffraction apparatus, i.e. technologies that create boundaries and make the world intelligible through intra-actions between human and non-human agencies of observation and objects of observation.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 675378.

Tesis Univ. Granada.