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Environmental Time

Video essay by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz Abstract. This video essay juxtaposes selected footage from Nomadland (2020) and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018) to explore the films’ hauntological landscapes, proposing a creative engagement with the dilated durations of “environmental time” (Nixon 2011). By weaving together different temporalities of extractivism and extinction by means of multiple-screen format, it poses questions about the capacity of videographic ecocriticism…

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Stray Visuality

Video essay by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, edited by Belén Iniesta Abstract: In dialogue with Julia Kristeva and Barbara Creed’s work on the concept of ‘stray’, this video essay explores ‘stray visuality’: visuality that exceeds the anthropocentric and ocularcentric frames of reference. Focusing on Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, this essay argues that her cinema is profoundly stray, not only…