CinemaEnvironmentVideo essay by Laura Del Vecchio and Katarzyna Paszkiewicz Abstract. This video essay engages with Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021) to pose questions about de-anthropocentric and decolonial ways of listening which would be attuned to the agency of the more-than-human world. Published in: [in]Transition 12.3 (2025), Monographic Section on Ecocriticism and Animal Studies, https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.22984
«Listening and Dreaming» The research project Cinema and Environment 2: Ways of Seeing Beyond the Anthropocene, in collaboration with Suralita invited participants to a night of camping at the rural schools of Manacor to listen speculatively. Developed by researcher Laura Del Vecchio, speculative listening is a practice of attention that opens space for sonic imagination. Rather than…
Missy Molloy, Senior Lecturer in Film at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), will discuss two films that address environmental and cultural exploitation in contemporary Hawai’i.
«Viure la fi del món en companyia: Narratives per a futurs millors» En els darrers anys, moltes pel·lícules han representat la fi del món a través d’imatges de catàstrofes climàtiques i socials. Com a resultat, aquestes narratives acaben influenciant les nostres maneres d’entendre el futur: des de mons plens de zombis, epidèmies que arrasen amb…
Stephanie Rincón and Guillermo Iglesias Díaz, in collaboration with the Cineclub Universitari (UIB), coordinate the film series “The Power of Imagination: New Proposals for Life in Contemporary Cinema”…
The seminar “Multispecies Explorations in a World in Ruins. Hybrid Bodies, Intertwined and Inscribed Upon One Another”, organized by Laura Del Vecchio and Stephanie Rincón, aims to create a space for imagining and exploring new sensory and creative ways of thinking about plural worlds from perspectives that reach beyond the human.
Video essay by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz Abstract. This video essay juxtaposes selected footage from Nomadland (2020) and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018) to explore the films’ hauntological landscapes, proposing a creative engagement with the dilated durations of “environmental time” (Nixon 2011). By weaving together different temporalities of extractivism and extinction by means of multiple-screen format, it poses questions about the capacity of videographic ecocriticism…
Salma Monani, Professor of Environmental Studies at Gettysburg College, will discuss the concept of d-ecocinema, focusing on how Indigenous cinema’s ecological entanglements are inseparable from its agenda of decolonialism. November 12, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. Sala de Graus, Edifici Ramon LlullCampus de la Universitat de les Illes Balears07120 Palma de Mallorca Salma Monani,…
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz presents her videoessay “Stray Visuality”, which raises questions about the role of film as a vehicle for denaturalizing the anthropocentric perspective and cultivating new ways of perceiving….
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz will be presenting her videoessay “Stray Visuality”. The activity is part of the master’s programme CRIC – Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities and…