One the Bride’s side? Between politics of displacements and ethics of location

This paper aims at critically exploring the network geographies underlying the production, distribution and consumptionof the Italian docu-film On the Bride’s side. Through a successful crowdfunding campaign and hundreds of screeningsthroughout Europe, the docu-film has given rise to a wide diasporic public sphere. It is here that mainstream practicesand alternative imaginations combine each other and unveil the complex and contested production of the cultural field.

Keywords: On the Bride’s side, cultural geography, media and migrations, regimes of visibility, banal location, diasporicpublic spheres.