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Elemental World Cinema
Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air
Series: - Contemporary Cinema, Volume: 12
This is the first book-length study on the relationship between cinema and the classical elements. It centres on earth, fire, water and air to offer new perspectives on the intersection of film and the nonhuman in a time of climate emergency. Mobilising a range of analytical frameworks, including early film theory, Indigenous epistemologies and environmental sciences, the essays in this collection trace the complex agencies of the elements as they intersect with the material properties of the cinematic image across fiction, animation, documentary and experimental film. In doing so, the book positions elemental cinema as a multifaceted process and experience that might encompass attempts to think with, alongside or even âlikeâ the elemental, all the while recognising the limitations of our anthropocentric systems of meaning.
Tiago de Luca is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. His research lies broadly in the fields of contemporary world cinema, global film aesthetics and ecocinema. He is the author of Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth (2022) and Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality (2014), and the co-editor of Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (2022) and Slow Cinema (2016).
Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research interests lie broadly in film-philosophies and filmed environments, particularly in the context of genocide and violence. She was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (University of Sussex) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Cambridge). She is the author of Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge (2020) and Temporality and Film Analysis (2012), the co-editor of The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia (2016) and the co-author of Remembering Katyn (2012).
Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research interests lie broadly in film-philosophies and filmed environments, particularly in the context of genocide and violence. She was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (University of Sussex) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Cambridge). She is the author of Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge (2020) and Temporality and Film Analysis (2012), the co-editor of The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia (2016) and the co-author of Remembering Katyn (2012).
Introduction: The Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air>
âTiago de Luca and Matilda Mroz
1 Abbas Kiarostami, Global Art Cinema and the Material Imagination of Earthâ29
âGraig Uhlin
2 Earth After Death: Posthumous Cinematic Ecologies in Holocaust Documentary Filmâ48
âMatilda Mroz
3 Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologiesâ73
âPatrick Brian Smith
4 Cinema as Volcano: Thinking Cinema Through the Volcano with Malena Szlam, Werner Herzog and Jean Epsteinâ95
âJessica Mulvogue
5 Tectonic Memories: Film, Geology and Archives in Diana VidraÈcuâs Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? (2019)â116
âToby Ashworth
6 Untamed Storms: Cinemaâs Oceanic Contingency and Mati Diopâs Atlanticsâ139
âLaurence Kent
7 Imagining the Elements with Gaston Bachelard and Claire Denis: âWeightedâ Images, Drift and Diffusion in LâIntrus/The Intruderâ157
âSaige Walton
8 Animated Waters and the Circulation of Indigenous Instructionâ177
âJoanna Hearne
9 Stormy Images: Elemental Kinetics in the Recent Films of Takashi Makino (2018â2021)â203
âKaya Turan
10 Nebulous Cinemaâ225
âTiago de Luca
11 Geoblocking the Sun: Solar Eclipses in Transnational Artistsâ Filmâ248
âStefan Solomon
Index
âTiago de Luca and Matilda Mroz
PART 1: Troubling Terrain: Framing the Agencies of Stone and Soil
1 Abbas Kiarostami, Global Art Cinema and the Material Imagination of Earthâ29
âGraig Uhlin
2 Earth After Death: Posthumous Cinematic Ecologies in Holocaust Documentary Filmâ48
âMatilda Mroz
PART 2: Scorched Earth: Cinemas of Eruption and Combustion
3 Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologiesâ73
âPatrick Brian Smith
4 Cinema as Volcano: Thinking Cinema Through the Volcano with Malena Szlam, Werner Herzog and Jean Epsteinâ95
âJessica Mulvogue
5 Tectonic Memories: Film, Geology and Archives in Diana VidraÈcuâs Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? (2019)â116
âToby Ashworth
PART 3: Liquid Poetics: Seas, Rivers and Anticolonial Currents
6 Untamed Storms: Cinemaâs Oceanic Contingency and Mati Diopâs Atlanticsâ139
âLaurence Kent
7 Imagining the Elements with Gaston Bachelard and Claire Denis: âWeightedâ Images, Drift and Diffusion in LâIntrus/The Intruderâ157
âSaige Walton
8 Animated Waters and the Circulation of Indigenous Instructionâ177
âJoanna Hearne
PART 4: Clouded Visions: Atmospheric Contingencies
9 Stormy Images: Elemental Kinetics in the Recent Films of Takashi Makino (2018â2021)â203
âKaya Turan
10 Nebulous Cinemaâ225
âTiago de Luca
11 Geoblocking the Sun: Solar Eclipses in Transnational Artistsâ Filmâ248
âStefan Solomon
Index
Individual scholars and academic institutes/libraries, specialists, post-graduate students and practitioners working in: film and screen studies, world cinema, film-philosophy, environmental humanities, ecocinema and ecocriticism, and media theory.