Screening Nature: Symposium & Screenings

In a symposium and a weekend of screenings covering more than a hundred years of cinema, Screening Nature explores the ecology, ethics and aesthetics of the relationship between human and nonhuman animals, nature, and the moving image. Curated by film scholars Anat Pick and Silke Panse in association with Queen Mary University of London, the University for the Creative Arts, the Whitechapel Gallery and the Goethe-Institut. Screening Nature is hub for work in ecology, film and other time-based media that is not interested in the spectacular or cuddly, but in slow burning and thoughtful, ethically engaged work on our place in the world.

Symposium keynotes by W. J. T. Mitchell (Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago) and Claire Colebrook (Professor of English, Penn State), with a talk by experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder, and presentations by Jody Berland (Professor of Humanities, York University) and Silke Panse (Lecturer and artist, UCA).

Screening work by the Lumière brothers, Joris Ivens, Percy Smith, Stan Brakhage, Rose Lowder, Kenneth Anger,Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Joyce Wieland, Mike Marshall, Vladimir Tyulkin, Helga Fanderl, Peter Kubelka, Ed Chell, Mike Blow, Silke Panse, Erin Espelie, Johanna Hällsten, David Chapman and David Cottridge, Chen Sheinberg, Ian Wiblin and Anthea Kennedy, Lucy Powell, and a selection of rarely seen early films.

For information: Anat Pick, Dept. of Film Studies, Queen Mary, University of London: [email protected]. 

• Screening schedule: http://screeningnature.com/2013/04/17/screening-nature-schedule-18-19-may-whitechapel-gallery/
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