La Escuela De Cine Del Arroyo. Analysis of a Community Cinema Experience in the Anthropocene.

The expansion of high environmental impact activities in Latin America has prompted numerous organizations to adopt community film production tools to share their demands in the public sphere. This situation is being re- actualized in a scenario of climate and social crisis intensification, where living conditions are improving and the demand for care and reproduction of life tasks is increasing, mostly falling on women's groups, in a context in which popular neighborhoods emerge as territories where these processes assume bigger dimensions.

This paper analyze the case of the Escuela de Cine Comunitario del Arroyo, a community film school located in the Sayonara I settlement, in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this space, multiple recreational activities for children and adolescents are carried out, with a community dining room run by a group of women. The film school is built as a neighborhood community space that enables new territorial practices as well as the recognition of territorial ecofeminist praxis in this precarious territory.

The analysis combines community cinema perspectives, the contributions of critical ecofeminisms to understand the praxis of women's collectives, and the approach of political geography to comprehend the deployment of spatialities of resistance. The methodological strategy adopted is based on audiovisual qualitative sociology, specifically on the viewing of documentaries with the analysis of material posted on social networks, and the analysis of key informant interviews and the recording of participant observations are included.

The main findings of the work include thinking of the film school as a collective process, where from the practice of filmmaking, the community build new community identities in the face of the problems generated by living in a neighborhood where the consequences of living in the Anthropocene era are deepening and where a set of territorial ecofeminist praxis emerge for reasons of survival.