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Moving Environments, Day 1

Posted in Cinema, tagged , , , , on July 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »

What follows are notes from the first day of Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, and Ecocinema. These are, needless to say, my own hastily drawn up notes (and I’m still a little jet-lagged from my arrival yesterday). Forgive the point form and abbreviation inconsistencies. Any errors are my own; any wonderful ideas are other people’s, unless […]

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Nature vs. Grace?

Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on July 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The latest issue of Precipitate: Journal of the New Environmental Imagination — which looks like an excellent issue — includes a review of Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” that reminds me how important it is to pay attention to the dialogical and heteroglossic texture of Malick’s films, and how easy it is to lose […]

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Malick’s tangled bank

Posted in Cinema, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »

  It will take some time before I can say anything very intelligible about Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. But here are some initial thoughts, for what they’re worth. (1) This is the film in which Malick just lets it go, and lets it flow…

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Malick vs. von Trier @ Cannes

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The artist of sublime faith (of the pantheistic, immanent kind) versus the artist of sublime cynicism. “Earth is heaven (and purgatory)” versus “Earth is evil.” With catastrophe and Kubrick’s 2001 lurking in the background of both… http://youtu.be/fLPe0fHuZsc

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Examining life, trash, & radical nature

Posted in Philosophy, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on February 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCfiv1xtoU I enjoyed Astra Taylor’s film Examined Life when I first saw it a couple of years ago, and, having just watched it again, I’m glad to see that it bears re-viewing. As one might expect, some segments are more lasting than others. Slavoj Zizek wearing an orange safety vest talking about ecology at a […]

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Post-Cinematic Affect in the era of plasticity

Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »

It’s probably inappropriate to review a book about four films when one has only seen one, and by far the shortest (it’s a music video), of the four. So this isn’t a review so much as an appreciation of Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect, along with some half-digested notes I made while reading it, but which […]

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The tree of life, in pieces

Posted in Cinema, tagged , on December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »

If you haven’t seen the trailer for Terence Malick’s forthcoming film The Tree of Life, you’re just not a real cineaste, are you? What’s better than burrowing analytically into the Heideggerian ecophilosophical themes of Malick’s films (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World — before making any of them he was […]

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manuscript update

Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged on November 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I’m recovering from a hard drive crash that occurred late last week. The only significant part of Ecologies of the Moving Image that I’ve completely lost are some fairly substantial recent revisions and additions to Chapter Six. I can reconstruct other pieces from earlier saves and from revisions made on hard copy print-outs. The crash […]

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inside job

Posted in Cinema, Politics, tagged , , , , on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DRm5ES-uA?fs=1&hl=en_US It’s not as good a film as I would have liked — there are too many talking heads, and director/interviewer Charles Ferguson (who remains conveniently invisible throughout) has an annoying tendency to look for “gotcha” moments, when his interview subjects hesitate and stumble in answering his questions, as if these provide the smoking gun […]

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shooting it green

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Since I write about film from an ecocritical perspective, I feel obliged to share information about the greening of filmmaking practice. Transforming Cultures has a post about that. Here’s the trailer for Lauren Selman’s/Real Green Media‘s Greenlit, a film that, like No Impact Man, appears to fall into the “it’s the right thing to do, […]

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field of dreams

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I just watched Amy Hardie’s recent film The Edge of Dreaming, a documentary about a year in her life during which this science documentarian and self-proclaimed skeptic becomes haunted by a series of dreams that appear to foretell her own death before the year is over. The film becomes an exploration of neuroscience, the meaning […]

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low impact movie?

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged on September 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ctt7FGFBo?fs=1&hl=en_US <a href="Level Ground has an excellent review by Another Green World‘s Derek Wall of the eco-doc No Impact Man (you can click the title to watch the whole thing, apparently). We can’t collect bottles and line them up until we get to a sustainable world. Structural change rather than individual action is essential. Take […]

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