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Screening Nature Network: Flora, Fauna, and the Moving Image

筛选自然网络：植物群、动物群和移动图像

基本信息

批准号：
AH/K001965/1
负责人：
Anat Pick
金额：
$ 3.98万
依托单位：
Queen Mary University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK001965%2F1
关键词：
Screening Nature Network Flora Fauna

项目摘要

The Screening Nature Network addresses the relationship between the natural world and the moving image via a mixed platform that includes a series of symposia, curated screenings, discussions between filmmakers, academics, and the public, and a project website. The research asks how ideas about the natural world contributed to the development of early cinema and how nature continues to inform the medium today. Ideas about cinema's ability (and limitations) to convey a non-anthropocentric perspective are at the heart of the project, whose eco-aesthetic focus is intimately linked to topical questions about the status of nature as an economic and aesthetic resource. Other themes that will be explored are the question of nonhuman agency, climate change, sustainability, and human-animal relations. The network showcases a programme of rarely seen moving image work, from early archival pieces to recent film and video work, with the aim of broadening the scope of debate on representations of the natural world beyond popular natural history broadcasting (e.g. the BBC's Planet Earth or Frozen Planet). The network will bring together stakeholders across several disciplines: Film Studies, ecology, philosophy, film and arts practice, cultural studies, as well as the general public. The first series of events will take place on 7-8 September 2012 at the Whitstable Biennale. This is the first time that an academic symposium and a themed series of screenings form an integral part of the Biennale, establishing an innovative crossover network between academics, artists, and the public. The Whitstable events will open with the Symposium Screening Nature held at the Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre, with confirmed keynotes by the renown scholars W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago) and Claire Colebrook (Penn State), and invited speakers, ecocritic Greg Garrard (Bath Spa), historian Jonathan Burt (author of Animals in Film), and media and cultural studies scholar Jodi Berland (York University). The Symposium is followed by six curated Flora & Fauna screenings featuring a mixture of early film and contemporary artist film, video and sound works that deal with the relationship between ecology, nature, and the image. Screenings will include Question & Answers with the filmmakers and artist panel discussions, resulting in a comprehensive dialogue among filmgoers, visitors to the Biennale, academics, and artists. The second series of events (November '12-January '13) will be at the Goethe-Institut London, and include two public premieres of award-winning documentaries on ecology's place in the wider political and social context. The screenings will also be followed by a discussion between the filmmakers, film scholars, and the public. Two additional symposia in 2013 will complete this phase of the network's research and pave the way for its future work.By linking a wide range of communities, including local residents, visitors to the Whitstable Biennale, filmgoers, academics, activists, and artists, the project centres on fostering a genuine intersectional dialogue on the place of nature in film and the historical, political, and everyday consequences of the media circulation of natural images. The recent surge in natural history TV programming, commercial documentaries (e.g. March of the Penguins), or the BFI's DVD release of Secrets of Nature suggests a growing appetite to explore a wider range of nature filmmaking. The network harnesses this appetite to exhibit and debate historically crucial filmic materials (early scientific and exploration films, contemporary artist film and video, and experimental film), all of which offer fascinating counterpoints to popular wildlife filmmaking. The network sets out to bridge the gap between art, academia, and public engagement. Thus, the network seeks to make a concrete intervention into existing conversations on nature's place within a diverse film culture at a time of ecological crisis.

放映自然网络通过一个混合平台来解决自然世界与运动图像之间的关系，该平台包括一系列专题讨论会、策划放映、电影制作人、学者和公众之间的讨论以及一个项目网站。该研究询问了关于自然世界的想法如何促进早期电影的发展，以及自然如何继续影响着今天的媒体。关于电影传达非人类中心观点的能力（和局限性）的想法是该项目的核心，其生态美学焦点与有关自然作为经济和美学资源的地位的主题问题密切相关。其他将探讨的主题是非人类机构、气候变化、可持续性和人与动物关系的问题。该网络展示了一个罕见的运动图像作品节目，从早期的档案作品到最近的电影和录像作品，目的是扩大对自然世界表现的辩论范围，超越流行的自然历史广播（例如BBC的行星地球或冰冻星球）。该网络将汇集多个学科的利益相关者：电影研究、生态学、哲学、电影和艺术实践、文化研究以及公众。第一个系列活动将于2012年9月7日至8日在惠特斯塔布尔双年展举行。这是双年展首次将学术研讨会和主题系列放映作为一个整体组成部分，在学者、艺术家和公众之间建立了一个创新的跨界网络。惠特布尔活动将以在马桥艺术与社区中心举行的“放映自然研讨会”拉开序幕，知名学者W.J.T. Mitchell（芝加哥大学）和Claire Colebrook（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）将发表主题演讲，并邀请生态评论家Greg Garrard（巴斯温泉）、历史学家Jonathan Burt（电影中的动物）、媒体和文化研究学者Jodi Berland（约克大学）发表演讲。研讨会之后是六场策划的动植物放映，其中包括早期电影和当代艺术家的电影、视频和声音作品，这些作品处理了生态、自然和图像之间的关系。放映将包括与电影制作人和艺术家的问答小组讨论，从而在电影观众、双年展参观者、学者和艺术家之间进行全面的对话。第二个系列活动（11月12日至13日1月）将在伦敦歌德学院举行，其中包括两部关于生态学在更广泛的政治和社会背景下的地位的获奖纪录片的公开首映式。放映结束后，电影制作人、电影学者和公众之间还将进行讨论。2013年的另外两个专题讨论会将完成这一阶段的网络研究，并为其未来的工作铺平道路。通过连接广泛的社区，包括当地居民、惠特布尔双年展的参观者、电影观众、学者、活动家和艺术家，该项目的中心是促进真正的交叉对话，探讨自然在电影中的地位，以及媒体传播自然图像的历史、政治和日常后果。最近自然历史电视节目、商业纪录片（如《帝企鹅日记》）的激增，以及英国电影协会发行的《自然的秘密》DVD，都表明人们对探索更广泛的自然题材电影制作的兴趣日益浓厚。该网络利用这种兴趣来展示和辩论历史上至关重要的电影材料（早期科学和探索电影，当代艺术家电影和录像，以及实验电影），所有这些都为流行的野生动物电影制作提供了迷人的对比。该网络旨在弥合艺术、学术和公众参与之间的差距。因此，该网络试图在生态危机时期，对多元电影文化中关于自然地位的现有对话进行具体干预。