Tag: Film
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Cinco razões pelas quais o fracasso de Henry Ford no Brasil ainda importa hoje
Neste guia rápido sobre o impacto duradouro de Henry Ford na Amazônia, o diretor de Beyond Fordlândia compartilha histórias pouco conhecidas de violência, poluição e ativismo que descobriu durante as filmagens do novo documentário.
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Lukas Marxt Lets the Toxins Speak
Juntao Yang examines how Lukas Marxt renders the specter of toxicity visible and knowable in his experimental film, Among The Palms The Bomb (2024). The film, they argue, is a study of the technology of witnessing and a call for deep attunement to the land.
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Landscapes of Displacement and the Politics of Dead Pets
in EssaysIn 1977, the pets of a Los Altos, California cemetery were exhumed and relocated to Napa. Zak Breckenridge argues Errol Morris’s Gates of Heaven documentary on the event is a prehistory of today’s housing and land crisis.
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Faculty Favorites: Environmental Activism in Art & Fiction
in ChecklistsEdge Effects asks scholars to recommend creative works that explore aesthetic resistance to environmental precarity, or celebrate cultural traditions uplifting alternative ecological narratives and knowledge centered in care, kinship, and storytelling.
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Werewolves Within is the Pipeline Horror Film You Didn’t Know You Needed
in ReviewsWerewolves and petro-masculinity and extractive capitalism, oh my! In this review of a recent horror-comedy film, Addie Hopes and Richelle Wilson examine an overlooked aspect of the story. Where pipelines go, murder follows.
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Diving into the Aquatic Depths of East Asian Ecohorror
in EssaysIn ecohorror movies like Shin Godzilla and The Host, pollution fights back in the form of rampaging sea monsters. Lindsay S. R. Jolivette traces the significance of water in these films—and what it reveals about our worst nightmares.
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Nine Horror Films on Haunted Places and Contested Spaces
in ChecklistsFeed your brain and your Halloween horror habit with these nine spooky film and TV recommendations with extra credit readings and eco-interpretations offered by Edge Effects board members.
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Experimental Documentary Captures Oil Midstream
in ExhibitsSteve Rowell’s film Midstream at Twilight uses drone photography to follow the toxic infrastructure of oil pipelines from source to refinery to gift shop.
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Finally, a Funny Environmental Film
in ReviewsAnd it might just be the quirky, queered, Icelandic feminist ecowarrior movie you’ve been waiting for.
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Slow-Motion Disaster and Extreme Weather: Five Questions for Judith Helfand
in InterviewsThe 1995 Chicago heat wave revealed how racism and poverty are the slow-motion disasters that become glaringly visible during extreme weather events. A new documentary film tells this story.