The screening series Framing Collective Action presents artistic and documentary films created within collective structures. By linking historical and contemporary examples, the series explores the potentials of collective filmmaking through diverse aesthetic approaches. Each film program focuses on a specific spatial context (House, Street, Land) and examines the political and social impact of collective filmmaking both in front of and behind the camera, within and beyond the frame.

Human-shaped landscapes are often reflections of social desires—for solitude and quietude, but also for resources and control. The four films that make up this program explore different forms of landscape exploitation while revealing how anthropocentric environmental transformations are intrinsically entangled with social, political, and historical issues. In the last program of this series, Land, the collectively produced films develop different cinematic strategies to deal with the continuity of environmental racism, feminist labor struggles, colonial traces, and indigenous knowledge. The journey of this group of films takes us from the sugarcane fields of Jamaica to burial grounds in the US that are now used as petrochemical plantations, from stolen flora and fauna seeded in Spain to the surviving ancestral Nahuatl floating gardens in Mexico.

Program
Forensic Architecture, If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?, 2021, 35 min
Eulàlia Rovira, Adrian Schindler, La plaga, el provecho (The Plague, the Profit), 2022, 5 min
Sistren Theatre Collective, Honor Ford-Smith, Harclyde Walcott, Sweet Sugar Rage, 1985, 45 min
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Chinampas / The Floating Gardens, 2023, 5 min