New Video Essay published by Dr Rachel Randall
Dr Rachel Randall's video essay, PAUSAS | PAUSES, was published open access in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies in June.
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The video essay draws on seven contemporary Latin American films featuring women protagonists who undertake paid domestic or cleaning work. It collects and juxtaposes sequences in which these employees snatch breaks from their labours. PAUSAS | PAUSES thus discovers and discloses a repeated trope that compellingly figures the possibilities for interiority and psychic freedom enjoyed or engaged in by these workers.
The video essay was co-authored with Professor Catherine Grant. It was shortlisted for a Practice Based Research Award by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies in March 2025 and selected to be screened as part of the Video Essay Competition at the Marienbad Film Festival in June 2025.