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The Claim

The 2023 film "Indivision" uses the smartphone as a narrative and visual instrument of liberation from an eco-cyberfeminist perspective.

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The Short Version

The claim significantly overstates what the available evidence supports. The only source directly addressing "Indivision" — a 2023 Africultures interview with director Leïla Kilani — confirms ecological themes and a "Shéhérazade 2.0" figure using social networks, but does not identify the smartphone as a specific liberatory visual instrument nor frame the film as "eco-cyberfeminist." The leap from "social networks" to "smartphone as instrument of liberation" and from thematic overlap to a named theoretical framework is not substantiated by any film-specific scholarship.

Caveats

  • The claim equates 'social networks' (mentioned in the director's interview) with 'smartphone as a narrative and visual instrument,' a substitution not supported by the source material.
  • No film-specific scholarship applies the label 'eco-cyberfeminist' to Indivision; the eco-cyberfeminism connection is inferred from abstract theoretical definitions rather than demonstrated through analysis of the film itself.
  • The director's interview includes language about 'crazy, limitless proliferation' and questioning ecological limits that is at least as compatible with critique or ambivalence as with 'liberation,' making the claim's emancipatory framing one-sided.

The Receipts

  1. Entretien avec Leïla Kilani à propos d'Indivision - Africultures

    Africultures

  2. Marianne Kac-Vergne, Julie Assouly (eds), From the Margins to the ...

    OpenEdition Journals

  3. on gathering: cyberfeminism, multiplicity, digital archives, and the practice of collecting

    LLM Background Knowledge

  4. Zones of Conflict: Feminist Activism & Women's Filmmaking in Transformative Times

    MAI Feminism

  5. The Feminist Narrative: Analysing the Location of Action

    [in]Transition

  6. Representation of Ecofeminism in Film and Media: An Intersectional Analysis

    International Journal of New Media Studies (IJNMS)

  7. Cinematizing Women's Struggles: Gendered Laws in Sofia (2018)

    Science Publishing Group

  8. Master's in International Studies in Media, Power, and Difference

    UPF Repository

  9. Interactive Digital Narratives: Counter-Hegemonic Narratives and Inclusive Storytelling

    Game Journal

  10. Invisible Domination: An Analysis of Symbolic Power in Feminist Film

    DergiPark (Turkish Academic Repository)

+ 1 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

Filed Under

Eco-cyberfeminismIndivision