12026-03-22T17:26:51-07:00Repairing and Refilming12visual_path2026-04-09T14:17:29-07:00This Repairing/Refilming section proposes alternative narratives by putting forward international films, specifically ones that focus on the local. They expose the environmental consequences that communities endure in the shadows by proposing new ways to tell a story through generic, technical and thematic explorations. An official and Western story is here refilmed and replaced by alternative and more individual ones that finally focus on hardships often ignored by global narratives. Through locality, blame is more precisely directed and does not hierarchize narratives and relationships to the environment as globality does. The cinematic language used in the movies I picked to represent nature and its relationship to humans is born out of the Anthropocene’s violence. Visual language is here rewritten for the spectator to understand and actively think about what they see.
It also explores cinema’s ability to be a hopeful device and to help us flourish in the Anthropocene. Both the art form’s strengths and limits are touched upon to form a self-critical and aware spectator.
