At the movies with Donna Haraway. Towards situated cinema.

Abstract

First, and through the notions of feminist objectivity and situated knowledge proposed by Donna Haraway in her essay “Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature” (1991), this article aims to find out how situated cinema can be produced. The underlying intention is to investigate when—and under which conditions—filmic creation can become useful and transferable knowledge. The article incorporates an audiovisual teaser of the film (framed within the practice part of a PhD programme) that I am currently producing at the Doctoral and Research Unit in BAU (UVic-UCC) and proposes the idea of situated cinema as a form of filmic analysis. With this guide, the aim is to analyze—pinpointing above all the problems and contradictions— the degree of situation in filmic creation itself, while seeking ways how to minimize them.