Leisure, Cinema and Socio-Space Trajectories of Black Filmmakers

Unveiling Strategies Tto Face Racism/Sexism

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the intersections of gender/race in the socio-spatial trajectories of black filmmakers, with a view to understanding the strategies they use to face racism and sexism, in their filmmaking and in their leisure experiences. The research is based on the contributions of decolonial thought, intersectional black feminism, critical studies of leisure and cinema. The methodology of this qualitative research included a bibliographic study and in-depth interviews with seven black filmmakers, which were analyzed using the Discourse of the Collective Subject-DSC technique. The main strategies that have the power of meaning to face racism and sexism in filmmaking and in the leisure experiences of the interviewees are the narratives of themselves, participation in associations of black collectives and film festivals with a black theme and the experience of a "differentiated leisure", which can be critically enjoyed, even if it is necessary to advance towards subverting the social, cultural and political reality established in our context. In conclusion, the socio-spatial trajectories of black filmmakers unveil inequalities aiming to break with the stereotyped social imaginary, reaffirming the relevance of an "unsubmissive leisure".