Catalina Segú

The rise of the far-right in the Southern Cone has intensified white supremacy across Latin America, underscoring the urgency of examining the understudied category of whiteness in the region. This project takes up this task by analyzing contemporary moving image art in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Through an innovative methodology that combines formal and theoretical analysis with autoethnography and videographic criticism, “White Unsettlements” traces the “atmospheric aesthetics,” a series of cinematic works develop to construct and unsettle whiteness at perceptual and sensorial levels, offering alternative forms of embodiment. Culminating in a hybrid format that blends written chapters with an autoethnographic experimental documentary, the project offers a first-person, historically situated reconstruction of whiteness in the Southern Cone—recentering the body, the senses, and a broader media ecology, and advancing embodied, nonlinear, and multisensorial tools for engaging with race and subjectivity beyond the linguistic.