Symposium: Strange Weather - Cinematic Climates Fri Feb 14 10-5pm Room 100a 170 St. George St TO
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- https://www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/j ... c-climates
- Price:
- Free
- Savings:
- 100
- Expiry:
- February 15, 2020
- Retailer:
- Jackman Humanities Institute UofT
Description
This symposium and screening event will bring together a core group of scholars and creators working at the cutting edge of film and media studies whose research asks how histories and theories of the aesthetics and materiality of moving-image media can contribute to pressing debates about today’s climate crisis.
Pushing beyond the basic (if nonetheless true) premise that cinema has the power to create environmental consciousness, whether through activist documentaries (An Inconvenient Truth [2006]) or fictional allegories (The Day After Tomorrow [2004]), symposium participants will seek more nuanced understandings of cinema’s power to make our world strange, or as Siegfried Kracauer put it, to “estrange” us from traditional ways of seeing and knowing. In the age of the so-called “Anthropocene,” in which (some) humans have come to dominate the very definition of our world and its history, cinema uniquely manages both to embody the anthropocentric ambitions of modernity while also holding the potential to decenter human vision. Whether anthropocentric or radically estranging, cinema and new media, as film and media scholars working on infrastructural and materialist histories have argued, is directly implicated in the warming of our world and its strained and estranged ecologies.
Symposium Schedule on February 14
10:00 Registration + Welcome
10:30
Introduction
James Leo Cahill and Brian R. Jacobson
10:40
Anthropocene Cinema
Jennifer Fay (Vanderbilt) - Do We Know the Anthropocene When We See It?
Selmin Kara (OCAD) - Stranded States: Anthropocene Cinema from the Margins
12:00 Lunch
1:10
Cinematic Atmospheres
Yuriko Furuhata (McGill) - Manufacturing Perfect Weather: The Cold War Geopolitics of Climate Media
Katerina Korola (U. Chicago) - Objectivity in the Air; or, How to Photograph Industry circa 1930
Weihong Bao (U.C. Berkeley) - The Cloud of Doubts: Making Sense of the Sensible in Postwar Chinese Cinema
3:20
Manufactured Environments
Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia) - The Scene of Production: Topography as Protagonist, Environment as Actant
Jennifer Peterson (Woodbury) - Boil the Ocean, Break the Ice: Film History, Nature, and Endangerment
5:00 Conclusion + Reception
Sponsors
Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts
Cinema Studies Institute
Canadian Film Forum
This symposium and screening event will bring together a core group of scholars and creators working at the cutting edge of film and media studies whose research asks how histories and theories of the aesthetics and materiality of moving-image media can contribute to pressing debates about today’s climate crisis.
Pushing beyond the basic (if nonetheless true) premise that cinema has the power to create environmental consciousness, whether through activist documentaries (An Inconvenient Truth [2006]) or fictional allegories (The Day After Tomorrow [2004]), symposium participants will seek more nuanced understandings of cinema’s power to make our world strange, or as Siegfried Kracauer put it, to “estrange” us from traditional ways of seeing and knowing. In the age of the so-called “Anthropocene,” in which (some) humans have come to dominate the very definition of our world and its history, cinema uniquely manages both to embody the anthropocentric ambitions of modernity while also holding the potential to decenter human vision. Whether anthropocentric or radically estranging, cinema and new media, as film and media scholars working on infrastructural and materialist histories have argued, is directly implicated in the warming of our world and its strained and estranged ecologies.
Symposium Schedule on February 14
10:00 Registration + Welcome
10:30
Introduction
James Leo Cahill and Brian R. Jacobson
10:40
Anthropocene Cinema
Jennifer Fay (Vanderbilt) - Do We Know the Anthropocene When We See It?
Selmin Kara (OCAD) - Stranded States: Anthropocene Cinema from the Margins
12:00 Lunch
1:10
Cinematic Atmospheres
Yuriko Furuhata (McGill) - Manufacturing Perfect Weather: The Cold War Geopolitics of Climate Media
Katerina Korola (U. Chicago) - Objectivity in the Air; or, How to Photograph Industry circa 1930
Weihong Bao (U.C. Berkeley) - The Cloud of Doubts: Making Sense of the Sensible in Postwar Chinese Cinema
3:20
Manufactured Environments
Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia) - The Scene of Production: Topography as Protagonist, Environment as Actant
Jennifer Peterson (Woodbury) - Boil the Ocean, Break the Ice: Film History, Nature, and Endangerment
5:00 Conclusion + Reception
Sponsors
Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts
Cinema Studies Institute
Canadian Film Forum
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