TOPICS: ECOCINEMA: FILMS ON A CHANGING PLANET in Spring 2027 (FM2910A)

Ecocinema examines how moving images shape the ways we see, hear, and imagine environments. Through fiction, documentary, experimental film, and moving-image art from around the world, the course explores landscape, ecological time, scale, water, more-than-human worlds, extraction, toxicity, environmental justice, climate futures, and the material footprint of cinema itself. Rather than treating the environment simply as backdrop or theme, we will ask how cinematic form, such as framing, duration, sound, genre, and point of view, all produces ecological meaning.

Based in Paris, the course moves between the screening room and the city as a field site. Students will conduct place-based research and create short media exercises using cameras, still photography, field recording, maps, and notebooks. No editing software is taught or required. The course culminates in an final project combining critical research with original field materials.