Film and Eco-Poetics

Cinematic Apocalypse: The Real World Impact of an Imagined Collapse

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:00:00 +0000

Cinematic Apocalypse: The Real World Impact of an Imagined Collapse:

Here’s an interesting article that recently appeared in Slate in which the environmental impact of a film production is made all to clear.

” In fact, the movie was filmed in Namibia in the first place because of changing climate. For a decade or so, Miller planned to shoot the film in Australia, in the New South Wales desert town of Broken Hill. But freak rains have turned the formerly dry-as-an-apocalypse area into a field of bobbing wildflowers. Really. And fields of wildflowers, while they may be real signs of ecological calamity, do not read as such on the screen. So the film had to up and move to Namibia, which boasts a desert landscape—with a healthy but nearly invisible lichen crust—that appears properly damaged to Western eyes.”

Stills from Tacita Dean’s FILM (2012), a monumental...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:37:00 +0000

Stills from Tacita Dean’s FILM (2012), a monumental assertion of the continued importance and beauty of celluloid. I’m particularly interested in the way Dean uses images of landscape and the natural world to suggest a material permanence of the analog medium.

Ten Skies- James Benning (2004)

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:33:06 +0000

Ten Skies- James Benning (2004)

A Journey To Avebury (1971). Derek Jarman.

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:03:59 +0100

A Journey To Avebury (1971). Derek Jarman.

Site Specific: Las Vegas 05 (2005) Olivio Barbieri

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:58:36 +0100

Site Specific: Las Vegas 05 (2005) Olivio Barbieri

Study of a River(1994). Peter Hutton.

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:42:26 +0100

Study of a River(1994). Peter Hutton.

Clouds. Chris Welsby, 1978.

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:48:15 +0000

Clouds. Chris Welsby, 1978.

Floral Co-operative Societies (1927). Percy Smith

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:33:31 +0000

Floral Co-operative Societies (1927). Percy Smith

Oliver Twist (1948) - David Lean

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:45:00 +0100

Oliver Twist (1948) - David Lean

The Manxman (1929) - Alfred Hitchcock

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:05:44 +0100

The Manxman (1929) - Alfred Hitchcock

Patrick Keiller on "Stonebridge Park"

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:23:49 +0100

Patrick Keiller on "Stonebridge Park"

La Région Centrale - Michael Snow (1971) “Standing on bare...

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:12:00 +0100

La Région Centrale - Michael Snow (1971)

“Standing on bare ground—my head bathed in blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Nature”.

Il desrto rosso - Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:38:00 +0100

Il desrto rosso - Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)

In Titan’s Goblet - Peter Hutton (1991).

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:46:00 +0100

In Titan’s Goblet - Peter Hutton (1991).

1. Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:48:00 +0100

1.

Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2006)

“The mortals are the human beings. They are called mortals because they can die. To die means to be capable of death as death. Only man dies, and indeed continually, as long as he remains on earth, under the sky, before the divinities. When we speak of mortals, we are already thinking of the other three along with them, but we give no thought of the simple oneness of the four.

This simple oneness of the four we call the fourfould. Mortals are in the fourfold by dwelling. But the character of dwelling is safeguarding. Mortals dwell in the way they safe guard the fourfold in its essential unfolding. Accordingly, the safeguarding that dwells is the fourfold.”

Martin Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking”.

2. Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:44:00 +0100

2.

Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2006)

“Mortals dwell in that they save the earth… Saving does not only snatch something from danger. To save properly means to set something free into its own essence. To save the earth is more than to exploit it or even wear it out. Saving the earth does not master the earth and does not subjugate it, which is merely one step from boundless spoliation.”

Martin Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking”.

3. Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:39:00 +0100

3.

Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2006)

“Mortals dwell in that they receive the sky as sky. They leave to the sun and the moon their journey, to the stars their courses, to the seasons their blessing and their inclemency; they do not turn night into day nor day into a harassed unrest.

Mortals dwell in that they await divinities as divinities. In hope they hold up to the divinities what is unhoped for. They wait for intimations of their coming and do not mistake the signs of their absence. They do not make their gods themselves and do not worship idols. In the very depth of misfortune they wait for the weal that has been withdrawn.”

Martin Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking”.

Time Changes Colour

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:42:00 +0100

Time Changes Colour

Sleep Furiously - Gideon Koppel (2008)

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:32:00 +0100

Sleep Furiously - Gideon Koppel (2008)

Sleep Furiously - Gideon Koppel (2008)

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:25:48 +0100

Sleep Furiously - Gideon Koppel (2008)