Contemporary Latinx-Canadian and Latinx-Québecois Cinemas: A Diasporic Gaze
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article provides an approach to the work of contemporary Latin American diasporic filmmakers working in English Canada and Quebec. Latinx-Canadian filmmakers are first- and second-generation Latin American migrants who produce films while living as permanent or temporary residents in Canada. The unique perspective of their work comes from the liminal space between the different cultures they inhabit and helps define a new and understudied chapter in the history of Canadian national cinema(s). Through the analysis of two semi-autoreferential cinematic journeys as case studies, the Spanish-language films Mis dos voces (My Two Voices) and Roads in February, it argues that Latinx-Canadian filmmakers develop and engage with a diasporic gaze in their work. This gaze corresponds to a particular way of understanding, seeing, and being in the world with an awareness of the struggles linked to migrants’ lived experiences. In exploring violence, grief, and migration, these films contribute an alternative linguistic and ideo-aesthetic approach to reshaping the contested notion of a singular Canadian national cinema.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".