¿Un país de irresponsables?: Filming Responsibility for Environmental Harm in the Judicialised Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin

This article explores how documentary film constructs responsibility for environmental harm in response to the Argentine Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling on the polluted Matanza-Riachuelo river basin. It proposes an interdisciplinary dialogue between socio-legal, film, and cultural studies to explore how three documentaries envisage different forms of responsibility through legal, political-economic, and post-anthropocentric lenses. It argues that critical documentaries mobilise but exceed legal logics, interrogating the limits of judicialisation. It identifies the archive as the judicial, cinematic, and spatial form through which film registers and contests responsibility across interconnected scales, ranging from the molecular to the institutional and the transnational.