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a rumble from the core of the earth

Video 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

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Environmental Time

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…

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Stray Visuality

Video essay by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, edited by Belén Iniesta Abstract: In dialogue with Julia Kristeva and Barbara Creed’s work on the concept of ‘stray’, this video essay explores ‘stray visuality’: visuality that exceeds the anthropocentric and ocularcentric frames of reference. Focusing on Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, this essay argues that her cinema is profoundly stray, not only…