This week’s theme in my “Environmental Literature, Arts, & Media” class is apocalyptic rhetoric. (I’m loosely following Greg Garrard’s list of tropes in Ecocriticism, but adding, amplifying, and amending to be more artistically inclusive.)
Because it’s a fun topic (and deadly serious, too), I thought I’d post a few of the videos we’ve been watching and discussing.
At the serious end, the trailer for Chris Jordan’s Midway is gut-wrenching:
http://youtu.be/ozBE-ZPw18c
Marina Zurkow’s Slurb is great…
as is the documentary in which she discusses making it:
This EDF polar bears piece remains a personal favorite of mine:
And at the hilarious end, this disaster films mashup is brilliant:
And while we’re at it, if you haven’t seen Disruption yet — the video made in preparation for this weekend’s Peoples Climate March — watch it. The first few minutes are classic eco-apocalypse; the rest mostly talking heads with some historical context. But it is very good.
http://youtu.be/ktgEzXZDtmc
See my Ecomedia YouTube channel for more. And send me others you know of (not only on the eco-apocalypse theme, of course).
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