A series of screenings and discussions on ecology, environment and cinema

This three-part program aims to explore anxieties surrounding human-animal relations, as depicted in 20th-century genre-fiction movies. We will watch and discuss three films together, each selected to represent specific anxieties expressed through cinema, either directly or metaphorically. Each session is open to all students, staff, graduates and friends of Sandberg and Rietveld.

For our third screening, Creature Features: THEM! (1959), we explore how gigantic animals in cinema symbolise anxieties around harmful human activities, embodying fears of ecological backlash.

Creature Features: Them! (1959)
Dir. Gordon Douglas
Friday 8th March, 14:30—17:00

Organised by Callum Copley, Sandberg alumnus and assistant researcher.