Rietveld Sandberg Research

Green Screens

"Fiction sets a broken bone in the hope that it will mend straight. It is a plea, a prayer… Fiction recreates what never happened. By recreating that potential, it addresses both past and future. It does not seek forgiveness, it seeks to understand." — Anne Michaels

Green Screens explores how ecological concepts—from climate change to extraterrestrial life—are dealt with in cinema, and what it means to engage with these ideas in this format. Green Screens’ programming primarily focuses on Science Fiction and seeks to understand how the genre has been used to—directly and indirectly—address ideas and anxieties around ecology thinking. It is through these twin lenses of Cinema and SF that we watch the material and discuss its political and cultural implications. Open to students, staff, graduates and friends.
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feb '24
A series of screenings and discussions on ecology, environment and cinema

Critical Inquiry – Green Screens 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.

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Critical Inquiry – Green Screens The research group Critical Inquiry hosts 'Green Screens: Xenoecologies', a series of screenings and discussions on ecology, environment and cinema, taking a closer look at imaginaries of ecologies from beyond Earth’s ecosystems.

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Critical Inquiry – Green Screens Join us for an evening of screenings and discussions on ecology, environment and cinema. Open to students, staff, graduates and friends.

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Critical Inquiry – Green Screens Join us for the first in a series of screenings and discussions on ecology, environment and cinema. Open to students, staff and graduates.