JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS

CFP – JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS ISSUE 18 (DECEMBER 2026)

Ecofeminisms and Sustainable Leadership in Contemporary Audiovisual Media

Monograph coordinated in collaboration with GENDERCOM

Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays opens its 18th call for submissions for the publication of video essays. In this edition, in addition to the miscellaneous section, the monograph Ecofeminisms and Sustainable Leadership in Contemporary Audiovisual Media is proposed, developed in collaboration with GENDERCOM (UGR).

Special Issue Coordinator: Marian del Moral (GenderCOM – UGR)

Submission deadline: September 30, 2026.

Description

The ecosocial crisis and the climate emergency permeate contemporary imaginaries and reshape cultural practices, creative industries, and digital cultures. From ecofeminist perspectives, these transformations are understood as processes deeply intertwined with the logics of power, extractivism, and gender inequality that structure both the economic system and symbolic production.

Contemporary audiovisual media, across its multiple formats, platforms, and devices, constitutes a privileged space to explore these tensions. Narratives of collapse, care, sustainability, and resistance are articulated not only as representations, but as material practices of cultural production and circulation.

This issue especially invites video essays, creative pieces, hybrid proposals, and audiovisual essays that address ecosocial imaginaries, industrial dynamics, and digital cultures from a critical and situated perspective. The aim is to reflect on sustainable leadership not only as an institutional category, but as a creative, political, and relational practice that proposes alternative ways of making, producing, and narrating.

Submissions that experiment with audiovisual language to interrogate the relationship between gender, ecology, and digital culture will be particularly valued, as well as proposals that critically analyze the material conditions of production in the sector.

Suggested Thematic Lines (non-exclusive)

Particular consideration will be given to works that:

• Experiment with the language of the video essay to address ecological crisis, care, and climate justice.
• Critically analyze audiovisual industries from an ecofeminist perspective.
• Explore digital cultures and sustainability within platform environments.
• Examine sustainable production practices (green shooting, circular economies, filming ethics).
• Highlight female or collective leadership in processes of ecosocial transformation.
• Offer situated readings grounded in specific territories, communities, or lived experiences.
• Combine theoretical reflection and creative practice.
• Develop experimental or transdisciplinary methodological approaches.

Approach

Faithful to the spirit of TECMERIN, this issue will prioritize proposals that articulate critical thinking and audiovisual creation, favoring formats that explore the expressive possibilities of the medium. The following are accepted:

• Video essays
• Experimental audiovisual essays
• Creative pieces with critical grounding
• Hybrid text-image proposals
• Research projects engaging in dialogue with audiovisual practice

Contributions must maintain conceptual rigor and argumentative clarity, even when adopting unconventional expressive forms.

Submission Guidelines

Contributions for this issue must be submitted following the usual submission guidelines, indicating in the subject line the intention to participate in the monograph of Issue 18: Ecofeminisms and Sustainable Leadership in Contemporary Audiovisual Media.