immanence

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:

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.

See my Ecomedia YouTube channel for more. And send me others you know of (not only on the eco-apocalypse theme, of course).