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
Category: Video-Essay
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…
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…