Ecology After Nature

Join us on e-flux Video & Film for the last day of the series Ecology After Nature convened by Lukas Brasiskis. 

The series, which launched on August 14, concludes today with a repeat of all 22 films featured in parts One through Six—available Sunday, November 8, 2020 for 24 hours from 12am to 11:59pm EST.

Ecology After Nature has featured films and video works by David Kelley and Patty Chang; Daniel Mann and Eitan Efrat; SashaLitvintseva and Graeme Arnfield; Jorge Jácome; Beatriz Santiago Muñoz; Sasha Litvintseva and Daniel Mann; Emilija Škarnulytė; Susana de Sousa Dias; Su Yu Hsin; Nguyễn Trinh Thi; The Otolith Group; Toby Lee, Ernst Karel, and Pawel Wojtasik; Malena Szlam; Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva; Zlatko Ćosić; Misho Antadze; Ivar Veermäe; Dinh Q. Lê; Tomonari Nishikawa; Thirza Cuthand; and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė; and discussions with T.J. Demos, Heather Davis, and particiapting artists.

Thank you for watching!

Part One | Extraction: Environments and Communities

David Kelley and Patty Chang, Spiritual Myopia, 2018 (15 minutes)
Daniel Mann and Eitan Efrat, The Magic Mountain, 2020 (69 minutes)
Sasha Litvintseva and Graeme Arnfield, Asbestos, 2016 (20 minutes)

Part Two | War Machines and Environmental Memories  

Jorge Jácome, Flores, 2017 (26 minutes)
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Other Uses, 2014 (7 minutes)
Sasha Litvintseva and Daniel Mann, Salarium, 2017 (42 minutes)
Emilija Škarnulytė, Sirenomelia, 2018 (12 minutes)

Part Three | Decolonizing the Landscape: From Invisible to Visible 

David Kelley and Patty Chang, Flotsam Jetsam, 2007 (27 minutes)
Susana de Sousa Dias, Fordlandia Malaise, 2019 (40 minutes)
Su Yu Hsin, water sleep II Akaike river under Xizang Road, 2019 (20 minutes)
Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Landscape Series #1, 2012 (5 minutes)

Part Four | Reading the Earth: Vibrant Matter and Human Hubris 

The Otolith Group, Medium Earth, 2013 (29 minutes)
Ernst Karel, Toby Lee, and Pawel Wojtasik, Single Stream, 2014 (23 minutes)
Malena Szlam, Altiplano, 2018 (16 minutes)
Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva, 4 Waters-Deep Implicancy, 2018 (30 minutes)
Zlatko Ćosić, Un-Pollute, 2017 (3 minutes)
Visualizing the Anthropocene: Aesthetics and Politics Discussion with T.J. Demos, Toby Lee, Sasha Litvintseva, The Otolith Group, and Susana de Sousa Dias, moderated by Lukas Brasiskis (archived)

Part Five | Extraction by Different Means 
Misho Antadze, The Harvest, 2019 (70 minutes)
Ivar Veermäe, The Flood, 2018-2019 (11 minutes)

Part Six | Anthropocentric Pasts and Planetary Futures, or Death as New Beginning 

Dinh Q. Lê, The Colony, 2016 (53 minutes)
Tomonari Nishikawa, sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars, 2014 (2 minutes)
Thirza Cuthand, Reclamation, 2018 (13 minutes)
Rugilė  Barzdžiukaitė, Acid Forest, 2018  (63 minutes)
Outside the Timeline of Progress: Techno-Material Traces, Post-Human Landscapes, and The New Social Discussion with Misho Antadze, Thirza Cuthand, Heather Davis, Su Yu Hsin, and Arjuna Neuman, moderated by Lukas Brasiskis (archived)

About the program 
Ecology After Nature: Industries, Communities and Environmental Memory is an online series of film programs and discussions that places reflections on administrative, instrumental, and extractive treatments of nature at its forefront, and exposes various angles of interconnection between the natural and the human-made. 

Programmed by Lukas Brasiskis, the series will present a selection of 22 artists’ films and videos to be screened on e-flux Video & Film in six thematic parts. From extractive industries, forgotten remnants of war machines, and polluting warehouses of cryptomining to misinterpreted birds, misheard earth strata, and vibrant landfills, the artists featured in this series highlight a non-essentialist view of the manifold forms that the natural takes in today’s world. The screenings are accompanied by two online discussions with some of the participating artists and invited guests, including art historian T.J. Demos and media and culture scholar Heather Davis, inquiring how the infrastructural, the elemental, and the communal could be reassessed through moving images, with a focus on the social and political particularities of environmental issues.

For more information, see the Ecology After Nature series page, or contact program@e-flux.com.