The emergence of a systematic campa

The emergence of a systematic campaign of horrific violence directed at women and girls in the
Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has become a focus of intense media and activist attention
over the last two decades. While the mainstream media devoted much attention to ravaged bodies
and sensational theories, state officials reacted to the crimes with a victim-blaming narrative that,
activists have argued, provided a lethal accelerant to the violence. This paper explores the role
of documentary film in the investigation and politicization of the murders and disappearances of
women in Juarez. Along with activists and journalists, critical documentary filmmakers have been
among the primary investigators of the crimes. In this paper, I argue that these grassroots media
practices have been instrumental in opening spaces of communication that have been enclosed
by pervasive fear and systemic insecurity. I pay specific attention to the ways in which Lourdes
Portillo’s 2001 documentary Señorita Extraviada interrogates the crimes politically. Through its
critical, engaged approach to the aesthetics and politics of evidence, I argue, the film poses a
counter-narrative to the neoliberal state’s discourse of responsibilization and individualization in
a context of systemic insecurity.

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Munculnya kampanye sistematis mengerikan kekerasan yang ditujukan pada anak- anakKota perbatasan Meksiko Ciudad Juarez telah menjadi fokus dari media intens dan aktivis perhatianselama dua dekade terakhir. Sementara mainstream media mengabdikan banyak perhatian kepada badan-badan yang rusakdan teori-teori yang sensasional, pejabat negara bereaksi terhadap kejahatan dengan korban-menyalahkan narasi,aktivis berpendapat, disediakan accelerant mematikan kekerasan. Makalah ini membahas peranfilm dokumenter dalam penyelidikan dan politisasi pembunuhan dan penghilangan paksawanita di Juarez. Bersama dengan aktivis dan wartawan, pembuat film dokumenter yang kritis telahantara para peneliti utama kejahatan. Dalam tulisan ini, saya berpendapat bahwa media akar rumput inipraktek telah berperan dalam membuka ruang komunikasi yang telah tertutupoleh rasa takut yang meluas dan ketidakamanan sistemik. Aku membayar perhatian khusus untuk cara-cara di mana LourdesPortillo di 2001 dokumenter Señorita Extraviada interrogates kejahatan politik. Melalui yangkritis, terlibat pendekatan estetika dan politik bukti, saya berpendapat, film poseKontra narasi untuk negara neoliberal wacana responsibilization dan individualisasi dalamkonteks ketidakamanan sistemik.