UC San Diego

Hands are indices of labor. Sensorial documentation of hands can reveal the “triple-day” as manifested in contemporary society among women of the Global South. Images, interviews and research from the production of the film Manos, which focuses on formal, informal, and reproductive labor in the River Plate region of Latin America, support this claim. This article pairs examples from the film with ideas from Silvia Federici and her analysis of the accumulation of reproductive labor within the capitalist project. This article also deconstructs Third Cinema and analyses films of the River Plate through the lens of labor. It makes allegations about the future investigations by the candidate in the study of labor and perception via film and art.