The Environmental Humanities via filmmaker/video artist Peter Norrman and...
'The Environmental Humanities'(2012) via filmmaker/video artist Peter Norrman and collaborators . I’ve been delighted to have been recently asked to be a contributor on the US/international...
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Above: Two instances of wind from Tarkovsky's "Zerkalo" (Mirror), spliced together * New book due Aug 2012: Ecocinema Theory and Practice ‘Most academic film studies professionals don’t take nature...
View ArticleExhibiting with 9 stones artists Carlow
the neighbours (2012) HD 00:34 cathy fitzgerald c c I’m exhibiting with my human neighbours, The Nine Stones Artists , at Deighton Hall, Carlow, for Eigse 2012, 9-17 th June. It looks like, thanks to...
View Articlescreen reel 2008-12 for 9 Stones Artists exhibition, Carlow
screen reel cathy fitzgerald 2008-12 SD & HD 8:54* * Above is the video work I have put together for my video installation for the 9 Stones Artists exhibition I am involved with – it opens next...
View ArticleNew book: Ecocinema Theory and Practice
Just published a couple of days ago: Edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt Published August 25th 2012 by Routledge – 344 pages Series: AFI Film Readers Introduction: Cuts to Dissolves:...
View Articleecologies of the moving image – new ecocinema book by adrian ivakhiv
film still of ‘The Zone’ from the film ‘Stalker’ (1979) by Andrey Tarktovsky ‘The Zone is the Zone of Cinema. The camera is in the Zone. We don’t see it; we are it’ Adrian Ivakhiv, 2012 Due out next...
View ArticleAmerican nature film: representations of dominion and imperialism
‘The representations of nature in early American cinema reflect an increasingly aggressive assertion of dominion, coterminous with the national expansion of empire… one by one, the presumptuous moral...
View ArticleThe ‘taxonomy’ of nature cinema and popularising science
Image from ‘Watching Wildlife‘ by Cynthia Chris, Uni. Minnesota Press, 2006. This is a diagram I came across a few months ago in a book called Watching Wildlife by Cynthia Chris. I know the work of...
View ArticleEcocentric cinema by Andrew Denton
One of the filmmakers I met in Melbourne at the ASLEC-ANZ Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Image 2012 conference was Andrew Denton, who is a senior digital design lecturer at AUT...
View Articlemore ash night shots – fire and opera
Over the last week or so, with an unusual spell of dry weather, I’ve been taking more night shots of my young Ash trees. The other night, after coming home late from a meeting, when driving into our...
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