Abstract
Amor Rojo (Red Love) is an archival-bibliographical research and film project on the legacy of Soviet revolutionary, feminist and diplomat Alexandra Kollontai, as this legacy appears through the different waves of feminisms and surfaces in today's fourth wave of feminisms. Amor Rojo bridges two distinctive moments in time, the Soviet revolution and the first wave of feminisms at the beginning of the 20th century, and the 4th wave of feminisms at the beginning of the 21st century; and two distinctive geographical sites, Europe and Latin America.The approach to Kollontai's legacy is not biographical, but relational: it avoids linear narratives around a single protagonist and chooses, with clear political intent, to focus on a myriad of figures in a multiplicity of times and spaces, guided by the central concept of achronie. Navigating through feminist waves, moments and sites, I seek to understand the persistence and mutation of three concepts coined or developed by Kollontai: love comradeship, abolition of the family and pre-eminence of class solidarity over gender solidarity. These three concepts have acquired new life and importance within the fourth wave of feminism, a transcontinental, Global South wave that has been guided by Latin American feminisms.
Amor Rojo maps certain underexposed feminist genealogies through meticulous archival, bibliographical and qualitative research, locating documents never published before, establishing transnational connections and assessing stages of feminism that were disconnected. Finally, Amor Rojo focuses on the iconography of the revolution, contextualising feminist revolt within a wider representation of insurrection in film.
The filmwork that is at the origin, the development, and the outcome of this project has resulted in three films over six years (2018-2024) and two publications (2020-2021).
| Date of Award | 19 Mar 2025 |
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| Original language | English |
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| Supervisor | Deborah Shaw (Supervisor) |