Audiovisual Work in the Social Movements of 2011: #NRVP as a Platform for Production, Management, and Research on Video and Politics.

Abstract

This article takes as its main discursive axis the project #Nuevas Realidades Video- Políticas (nrvp.wordpress.com) in an attempt to establish a series of parameters on which to base the creation of moving images linked to the new social movements. The text starts out reviewing the project’s inaugural premise—giving audiovisual production a role in the social movements of 2011 y 2012—and the different formats the project has taken over time—international video festival, workshops, symposia, and publications. Subsequently, the essay proposes guidelines that arise from concrete and situated experience and intend to provide answers—current, collective, and always undergoing critical elaboration—to the different contexts the project has engaged during its trajectory, namely, Spain and various Latin American countries. Some of the questions it tackles are: How can one work politically from the moving image/movement image? What new spaces of production and dissemination can be articulated? How are the new audiovisual disciplines hybridized in the new social movements?