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Here's an interesting article that recently appeared in Slate in which the environmental impact of a film production is made all to clear.

" In fact, the movie was filmed in Namibia in the first place because of changing climate. For a decade or so, Miller planned to shoot the film in Australia, in the New South Wales desert town of Broken Hill. But freak rains have turned the formerly dry-as-an-apocalypse area into a field of bobbing wildflowers. Really. And fields of wildflowers, while they may be real signs of ecological calamity, do not read as such on the screen. So the film had to up and move to Namibia, which boasts a desert landscape—with a healthy but nearly invisible lichen crust—that appears properly damaged to Western eyes."

#Ecology #Film #Mad Max #Apocalypse #Climate Change

Stills from Tacita Dean's FILM (2012), a monumental assertion of the continued importance and beauty of celluloid. I'm particularly interested in the way Dean uses images of landscape and the natural world to suggest a material permanence of the analog medium.

#Tacita Dean #FILM (2012)#Analog #Landscape #Medium Specificity

Ten Skies- James Benning (2004)

A Journey To Avebury (1971). Derek Jarman.

Site Specific: Las Vegas 05 (2005) Olivio Barbieri

#landscape #Olivio Barbieri

Study of a River(1994). Peter Hutton.

#Peter Hutton #Landscape

Clouds. Chris Welsby, 1978.

#The Clouds #Landscape #Structural/Materialist Film #Chris Welsby #Celluloid

Floral Co-operative Societies (1927). Percy Smith

Oliver Twist (1948) - David Lean

#Landscape #Oliver Twist #David Lean

The Manxman (1929) - Alfred Hitchcock

#Landscape #Patrick Keiller #LUX #Stonebridge Park

La Région Centrale - Michael Snow (1971)

"Standing on bare ground--my head bathed in blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God."

Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Nature".

#Landscape #Michael Snow #La Region Central #Nature #The Sky #The Earth #The Divine #Ralph Waldo Emerson

Il desrto rosso - Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)

#Landscape #The Buildings #Il deserto rosso #Michelangelo Antonioni

In Titan's Goblet - Peter Hutton (1991).

#Landscape #Peter Hutton #In Titan's Goblet #The Sky #The Clouds #The Fog

1.

Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2006)

"The mortals are the human beings. They are called mortals because they can die. To die means to be capable of death as death. Only man dies, and indeed continually, as long as he remains on earth, under the sky, before the divinities. When we speak of mortals, we are already thinking of the other three along with them, but we give no thought of the simple oneness of the four.

This simple oneness of the four we call the fourfould. Mortals are in the fourfold by dwelling. But the character of dwelling is safeguarding. Mortals dwell in the way they safe guard the fourfold in its essential unfolding. Accordingly, the safeguarding that dwells is the fourfold."

Martin Heidegger, "Building Dwelling Thinking".

#Apichatpong Weerasethakul #Landscape #Syndromes and a Century #The Mortals #Martin Heidegger #Building Dwelling Thinking #The Fourfold

2.

Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2006)

"Mortals dwell in that they save the earth... Saving does not only snatch something from danger. To save properly means to set something free into its own essence. To save the earth is more than to exploit it or even wear it out. Saving the earth does not master the earth and does not subjugate it, which is merely one step from boundless spoliation."

Martin Heidegger, "Building Dwelling Thinking".

#Apichatpong Weerasethakul #Building Dwelling Thinking #Landscape #Martin Heidegger #Syndromes and a Century #The Earth #The Fourfold

3.

Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2006)

"Mortals dwell in that they receive the sky as sky. They leave to the sun and the moon their journey, to the stars their courses, to the seasons their blessing and their inclemency; they do not turn night into day nor day into a harassed unrest.

Mortals dwell in that they await divinities as divinities. In hope they hold up to the divinities what is unhoped for. They wait for intimations of their coming and do not mistake the signs of their absence. They do not make their gods themselves and do not worship idols. In the very depth of misfortune they wait for the weal that has been withdrawn."

Martin Heidegger, "Building Dwelling Thinking".

#Apichatpong Weerasethakul #Landscape #Syndromes and a Century #The Sky #The Divinities #Martin Heidegger #Buildind Dwelling Thinking #The Fourfold

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