key experimental ecocinema books/texts
‘Most academic film studies professionals don’t take nature film seriously, either historically or theoretically. Indeed, there are few better indications of the educationally counterproductive gap between the humanities and the sciences’, Scott Macdonald, Adventures of Perception (2009) p. 156.
There is a very comprehensive book/ article list and filmography at ecomediastudies.org that covers the relatively small field of theoretical enquiry of nature in mainstream film, documentary etc. http://www.ecomediastudies.org/resources/bibliography/ – film and general ecocriticism)
So far I have only come across a few ecocinema books, papers and seminars and books that examine in detail the intersection of experimental film-making and the natural world.
Recent noteworthy academic articles and books that reference experimental film/media and nature are:
Scott MacDonald: Towards an ecocinema (from the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studes of Literature and Environment (ISLE) 2004, p. 107-32).
Scott MacDonald: Adventures of Perception (2009). In particular the chapter on Upclose and Political – three short ruminations on nature film.
Also see MacDonald’s earlier book ‘The Garden in the Machine (2001) – a survey of mostly US experimental filmmakers who concentrate on novel cinematic forms relating to place/landscape
Paula Willoquet-Maricondi: in particular the chapter Shifting Paradigms from Environmentalis films to Ecocinema: from Anthropocentrism to Eoccentrism Part 1 (2010) also, her previous paper Through the Glass, clearly RelasePrint Journal, Nov/December, 2005. Release Print: The Magazine of the Film Arts Foundation (www.filmarts.org),
Nils Lindahl-Elliot – Mediating Nature (2006)
Mediating Nature
Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining nature in the mass media.
Adrian Ivakhiv: Green Film Criticism and Its Futures (2008) and his website Immanence
Dobrin and Morey (2009) Ecosee, SUNY.
Eco-Cinema Seminar Bristol 2005
This seminar was organised by the former UK RSA Art & Ecology Programme (now discontinued but the site is still available); Andrej Zdravič, a leading experimental soundvison filmmaker led some of the discussions and showed some of his work
This was organised for the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit Dec 2009
Cinema and Climate Change 2009 Programme UCL 2009
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Ecocinema theory and practice 2012
What is ecocinema? key terms: biocentric, ecocentric and anthropocentric
