Becca Voelcker, Lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK), will discuss her book Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction (University of California Press, 2025) in the online Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 19 October 2026 at 10am Central European time / 9am in the UK. NOTE THE EARLY START TIME!
Zoom link: https://stavanger.zoom.us/j/67377887785?pwd=TxrLgKIWV7PORfrXwVwB97bn0VclST.1
Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility. Diving into little-known archives to explore films that resonate across geographies, Becca Voelcker unearths key examples of eco-political counterculture, from farmer-filmmakers in Japan and Mali to a gardener-filmmaker in Massachusetts, and from filmed landscape-portraits of women in Los Angeles, Orkney, and the Navajo Nation to Indigenous documentaries about land dispossession in Colombia. Proposing “land cinema” as an urgent genre for our time, this book reveals how images and ideas produced half a century ago sowed the seeds for climate justice movements today.
