ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author analyses how he represents and reassembles female sexuality, citizenship and political subjectivity by focusing on female protagonists who develop throughout his oeuvre into the founding figures of an alternative nation, enacting thus a gendered mestizo politics rooted in the countercultural milieus of the time. He discusses how Sergio Garcia Michel develops a critique of capitalist consumption and relations of production, as well as of the ease with which countercultural spheres can be commodified, especially for male citizens for whom the act of consumption does not entail an act of resistance as much as an act of heteronormative masculine power. The author focuses on this particular producer as opposed to a grander approach to the variety of directors and producers who worked with Super 8mm cinema because in his lifework, he found alternative nations outside the nationalist and capitalist hegemony contained in industrial spaces as much as symbolic regimes.
