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How can the video essay be deployed as a critical tool to analyse ecocinema and its relevance to the current environmental crisis? The Video Essay for Ecocinema course, held in the 2023 spring semester at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, introduced videographic techniques to investigate the topic of ecocinema and critically analyse ecological imaginaries. A heterogeneous bibliography of texts, films and video essays related to ecocinema presented key thematic concepts, including: visualizations of ecological scale(s); the role of affect in producing environmental consciousness; materialising intangible infrastructures and hidden “grey energies”; and the digital footprint of film and media industries. These concepts in turn served as the basis for a distinct series of videographic exercises that prepared students for their final videographic project. The results demonstrate the profound value of the video essay as a pedagogical practice that can provide students with the tools to address such a challenging and multifaceted topic as the global environmental crisis.
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Texts used in class
Cubitt, Seán. 2023. “Unsustainable Cinema: Global Supply Chains.” In Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2, edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Seán Cubitt, 19-33. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246602-3
De Luca, Tiago. 2021. “Sublime Earth.” In Planetary Cinema. Film, Media and the Earth by Tiago De Luca, 49-84. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv25wxbjs
Greene, Liz. 2020. “Teaching the Student, Not the Subject: Videographic Scholarship.” The Cine-Files 15: Fall 2020. http://www.thecine-files.com/teaching-the-student-not-the-subject/
Iheka, Cajetan. 2023. “Extraction and Wild Cinema in Africa.” In Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2, edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Seán Cubitt, 87-102. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246602-8
Kiss, Miklos. 2020. “Videographic criticism in the classroom: Research method and communication mode in scholarly practice.” The Cine-Files 15: Fall 2020. http://www.thecine-files.com/videographic-criticism-in-the- classroom/
Seymour, Nicole. 2014. “Irony and Contemporary Ecocinema: Theorizing a New Affective Paradigm.” In Moving Environments. Affect, Emotion, Ecology and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Moessner, 61-78. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. https://doi.org/10.51644/9781771120036-005
Vaughan, Hunter. 2016. “500,000 Kilowatts of Stardust: An Ecomaterialist Reframing of Singin’ in the Rain.” In Sustainable Media. Critical Approaches to Media and Environment, edited by Nicole Starosielski, and Janet Walker, 23-37. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315794877
Webb, Lawrence. 2014. The Cinema of Urban Crisis: Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt128784d
Films and video essays
Anderson, Thom, dir. 2003. Los Angeles Plays Itself. United States: Cinema Guild.
Leyda, Julia, & Kathleen Loock. 2022. Climate Fictions, Dystopias and Futures. YouTube, Video essay, 10:32 mins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRR-Ohcz4y8
Student video essays
Deckker, Tobias Quezado, and Marlene Fischer. 2023. Geostorm PechaKucha. 01:13 mins. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2945a989-c5eb-41c6-9e2a-afb5014ccf8d
Deckker, Tobias Quezado, and Marlene Fisher. 2023. Singing in the Rain Text & Graphics. 03:01 mins. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1c55de82-7c36-47e9-84ad-afc301745d77
Despoix, Elsa. 2023. Abstract Trailer: Women in Ecocinema. 02:28 mins. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5a1db67d-2a59-482f-b3a9-afe6013752ab
Despoix, Elsa, and Francisco De Oliveira. 2023. On Camera Response. 03:08 mins. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1b64f245-627c-4c91-af88-afed00f5d0c1
Fung, Cecile Xuetong. 2023. Silice de memoire. 05:33 mins. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=60a40531-6ff4-4723-ab4c-afd200d50e5b
Pawłowski, Filip, and Piotr Kadłubowski. 2023. The Day After Tomorrow PechaKucha. 01:00 mins. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7bf9964f-6066-4649-a277-afb501525e81
Pawłowski, Filip, Piotor Kadłubowski, and Maxime Reol. 2023. Voiceover: Exercise: Day After Tomorrow and Grizzly Man. 01:59 mins. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=154d0c9d-4d32-40f1-97c7-afbc00ca4169
Serra, Carlo Federico, and Franco Enrico Serra. 2023. On Camera Response. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7fabf1e0-154f-4d9d-ae3d-afed01574a3c
Serra, Carlo Federico, and Franco Enrico Serra. 2023.The Footprint of Vietnam War Movies. 14:55 mins. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=648f563c-c3f1-43d0-89a4-b02d015dd349
Suciu, Ioana, and Stefan Costache. 2023. An Eco-sublime Approach for Unsustainable Production. 15:33 mins. Retrieved September 5, 2023, from https://usisupsi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4564f6e1-4b5c-4137-950a-b0310171d03c
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