Overview
- Focuses on experimental and Avant-garde cinema, as well as contemporary art, in relation to discussions on ecology
- Features contributions from academics such as Scott McDonald, Janine Marchessault and Elizabeth A. Povinelli
- Contains chapters from internationally recognized filmmakers Chris Welsby, Rose Lowder, Philip Hoffman and Karel Doing
Part of the book series: Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image (EFAMI)
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About this book
This book explores the emergence of ecological consciousness in the work of contemporary experimental filmmakers. If it can be said that experimental filmmakers are "expanding" the artistic field through an exploration of the potencies, modes of dissemination and performance of the moving image, in the Anthropocene these practices strive for another kind of expansion: to expand our experience of nature. Appending flowers to the film strip or burying it in the ground, inventing observational devices, allowing the camera to be affected by natural forces, engaging one's own filming body in a symbiotic relationship with the environment, reconstituting ecosystems at the moment of projection: the ecologies of experimental cinema presented in this book constitute forms of practice and engagement that awaken a heightened sensibility towards the living world through cooperative links, casting other beings as subjects and agents of filmic processes, and, finally, reshaping the economy of filmmaking. Thus, ecologies of perception, medium, production, and multinaturalism are deployed, contributing to the restoration of our sensory bond with the natural world.
Several chapters were translated with the help of artificial intelligence. In each case, the text has subsequently been revised further by the author as well as the translator Charlie Hewison and a professional copy editor.
Keywords
- experimental cinema
- expanded cinema
- ecocinema
- environmental studies
- film studies
- history of film
- ontology of film
- visual anthropology
- ecological aesthetics
- handmade cinema
- political ecology
- ecological turn
- anthropocene
- ecofeminism
- indigenous cinema
- contemporary cinema
- Avant-garde
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elio Della Noce is a researcher and teacher in film studies at the Université Jean-Jaurès in Toulouse, France. His research focuses on ecological practices and commitments in experimental and contemporary Indigenous cinema. He is also an independent programmer and has curated film screenings at institutions in France as well as other countries.
Lucas Murari is a film researcher based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a PhD in Culture and Communication from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has curated and programmed numerous screening programs and exhibitions for various institutions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Expanded Nature
Book Subtitle: Ecologies of Experimental Cinema
Editors: Elio Della Noce, Lucas Murari
Series Title: Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-70728-5Due: 23 December 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-70731-5Due: 23 December 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-70729-2Due: 23 December 2024
Series ISSN: 2523-7527
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7535
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 232
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour