Strength in numbers? Themes of precarity and resilience in short films from two Spanish film

festivals

Nicola Tomlinson PhD Candidate, University of Manchester

Nicola.tomlinson@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Precarity

“referring to life worlds characterised by uncertainty and

insecurity” (Waite 2009: 412)

Precarity and the public/private realm

The home as the example par excellence of private space, where individuals are “free from the crippling effects of the external

gaze” (Nagel 1998b, in Madanipour 2003: 46)

Private life in public spaces“a part of private life played out in a public

space” (Madanipour 2003: 41)

Carlos reveals his precarious circumstances to Simón in Propiedad privada: se vende

The home

“El domicilio es inviolable. Ninguna entrada o registro podrá hacerse en él sin consentimiento del titular o resolución judicial, salvo en caso de flagrante delito”

(Constitución Española, 1978: Título 1, Capítulo 2º, Sección 1ª, Artículo 18).

Candela (David F. Torrico, 2016)

Destabilisation of the family

Community resilience?: the food bank

Casitas (Javier Marco, 2014)

“Playing house”: performing stability

“Playing house”: performing stability

Propiedad privada: se vende (Carmen Quijada, 2016)

“Se acabó el juego”: Simón lays claim to his property

Simón faces the judgement of the crowd...

...and of Carlos

BibliographyCandela, dir. by David F. Torrico (El Ojo Films, 2016) Casitas, dir. by Javier Marco (Visualia C. A., 2014) Propiedad privada: se vende, dir. by Carmen Quijada (Jóvenes

Realizadores, 2016) Eurostat, Housing Statistics (European Commission, February 2017).

Accessible via http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Housing_statistics [accessed 31.03.17]

Madanipour, Ali, Public and Private Spaces of the City (London and New York: Routledge, 2003)

—, ‘Social Exclusion and Space’, in The City Reader, ed. by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout (Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 203-211

Waite, Louise, ‘A Place and Space for a Critical Geography of Precarity?’, Geography Compass, 3/1 (2009), 412-433