The Barbie Backlash
We can exist in world that is both creating something better and destroying itself at the same time. That’s why I went to the Barbie party.
films
Reflections on Water: Film, Water and Storytelling
The wider ‘Ecosinema’ programme offers a chance to expand our collective consciousness around what we can do to care for the health of our waters and our world. And weather the storms to come.
Movie review: Annihilation
Loosely based on an eponymous 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation centers around a journey to the heart of an anomalous region known as Area X on America’s southern coast.
Why THIS GOOD EARTH was made
This film is about the reality of global warming, impoverished diets and rising hunger, disease and deaths, and also about loving the land and other living things.
‘The Condor and The Eagle’ Takes Flight
From the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the oil fields of Texas, to the Ecuadorian Amazon, The Condor & the Eagle tells the story of the collective struggle of the Indigenous peoples of North and South America in their fight to preserve their communities and to protect the Earth from climate change.
Film in the Anthropocene
Film is of course the art form of Industrial Civilization and its mass culture, whether as a simple historical fact, a manifestation of technical possibility, or in the various ideologies it is adept at expressing. But it is also the art form of the Anthropocene. I am overstating the case somewhat, but not entirely, when I note that the prevailing message of film is the power of belief and trust.
Naomi Klein & the Letdown of the Leap Manifesto: It’s Time We Divest From the Pipelines – the Pipelines of Film & Television (part 4/4)
There is no single extremely viable change we could make in our lives to combat fossil fuel consumption (and thus climate change) than ditching film and television.
Naomi Klein & the Letdown of the Leap Manifesto: Live by the Camera & TV Screen, Die by the Camera & Movie Screen (part 3/4)
Do film and television provide a net befefit, or might they actually be an overall loss when it comes to climate change and other major problems of ours?
The future isn’t what it used to be
Two recent films couldn’t be more at odds in their vision of the future. "Mad Max: Fury Road" is a relentless chase scene set in a world burned to desert by climate change and bereft of civilization which has long since vanished in a haze of war and resource shortages. Disney’s "Tomorrowland" shows a technotopian future guided by some innate wisdom that insures not only that humans will survive, but that they will thrive while building ever greater monuments to civilized life-