THE ART OF ECOLOGY:
New Ecological Art Films
Sunday, March 17, 2024
2:00 PM
The Hollywood Theatre (map)
This program features the Portland area premieres of five short films that approach ecological storytelling with particularly artful and imaginative spirit. Themes and topics include: primeval forests, tree frogs, the passage of time, sense of place, intersections of disability art with ecology, and hopes for the future. (Total running time: 70 minutes)
Several of the directors will join us afterwards (virtually) for a conversation.
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WORLD TO ROAM
12 minutes | 2023 | UK
Director: Stephen Irwin
In a world transformed but altogether similar to our own, mother and father lay the child in his cot at the same time every night. However, come morning, only a shallow crater remains; a baby-shaped depression. The boy was destined to be a wanderer.
SCENIC VIEW
16 minutes | 2023 | Norway
Director: Maija Blåfield
Finland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest has become so rare that it almost feels fictional. Is it now the enchanted forest? And is a commercial forest real? As nature documentaries are manufactured, are they fiction? Scenic View is a nature film about how we view a forest landscape and how we perceive reality.
THE WAITING
15 minutes | 2023 | Germany
Director: Volker Schlecht
Karen Lips lives alone for several years in a tiny shack in Costa Rica, observing a rare species of frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time, then returns, all of the frogs are gone. When she sets out to find them, she encounters a difficult truth.
BECOMING FOSSIL
13 minutes | 2023 | USA
Director: Petra Kuppers
Travel backwards and forwards in time around our small, precious planet. Ride the waves of climate emergencies through kaleidoscopic sensations of elemental change. Experience both extinction and resilience in human and more-than-human touches.
BY ASIAN POWER PLANTS
13 minutes | 2023 | Sweden
Director: Pelle Wichmann
What is most important for you? Are you worried about anything? How will your future be? These are questions that people answer, standing in front of coal power plants in different Asian countries.
