Practitioners of environmental filmmaking struggle with a fundamental challenge: how to represent the dimensionality, and immersivity of the so-called natural world within the flat space and linear temporalities of the cinematic medium. These challenges resonate with larger questions about loss, extinction, and degradation; one cannot capture what is now disappeared, elusive, or destroyed. What then, should the role of media be amid a period of environmental ruination? This experiential learning course seeks to investigate these questions, and more. Through a combination of praxis and theory, students will collaborate with community partners on a series of applied learning outcomes. Pre-enrolment balloting More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.
Practitioners of environmental filmmaking struggle with a fundamental challenge: how to represent the dimensionality, and immersivity of the so-called natural world within the flat space and linear temporalities of the cinematic medium. These challenges resonate with larger questions about loss, extinction, and degradation; one cannot capture what is now disappeared, elusive, or destroyed. What then, should the role of media be amid a period of environmental ruination? This experiential learning course seeks to investigate these questions, and more. Through a combination of praxis and theory, students will collaborate with community partners on a series of applied learning outcomes. Pre-enrolment balloting More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.
