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Exhausted Workers, Booming Elites and a Shattered Earth

10 June 2025–12 June 2025, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

Film Series Poster

This film series explores representations and realities of extractivism in Latin American fiction and documentary cinema, focusing on how films portray workers’ and communities’ daily lives and struggles, the industry’s socio-environmental impacts, and the structures of inequality that extractivism sustains. The selected films provide a historical overview of extractivism in the region, tracing both its enduring patterns and its evolving role in different national contexts. Through screenings and discussions, this event aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars, filmmakers, and activists.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All | UCL staff | UCL students

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Gianfranco Selgas and Sandra Rodríguez

Location

Lecture Theatre G22
North-West Wing Building
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BP

Please, register your interest through the following Eventbrite page: Exhausted Workers, Booming Elites and a Shattered Earth

10/06/2025
6:00-8:00 PM
Wings of Dust (Giorgio Ghiotto, Peru, 2023)
Choropampa, el precio del oro (Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd, Perú, 2002)
Speakers: Vidal Merma (Peruvian journalist and filmmaker) and Ernesto Cabellos (University of Sussex)

11/06/2025
6:00-8:00 PM
¡Aysa! (Jorge Sanjinés, Bolivia, 1965),
Bocamina (Miguel Hilari, Bolivia, 2019)
El Tío de Bolivia (René Hurtado, Taller de Cine Minero FSTMB-Varan, Bolivia, 1983)
Speakers: Isabel Seguí (University of St Andrews), Miguel Errazu (Goldsmiths University) and David Wood (UCL)

12/06/2025
6:00-8:00 PM
Kuyujani envenenado (Alexandra Henao, Venezuela, 2016)
Speakers: Alexandra Henao (Venezuelan filmmaker) and Rebecca Jarman (University of Leeds)

This event is co-convened by Sandra Rodríguez (PhD student, UCL Institute of the Americas) and Gianfranco Selgas (UCL), with the support of UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) Octagon Small Grant Fund, UCL Institute of the Americas, and UCL School of European Languages, Cultures and Societies – Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (SELCS-CMII).