Framing Collective Action (Land)

Human-shaped landscapes are often reflections of social desires—for solitude and quietness, but also for resources and control. The four films composing this program explore different forms of landscape exploitation while revealing how anthropocentric environmental transformations are intrinsically entangled with social, political, and historical issues. In the last program of this series, "Land", the collectively produced films develop different cinematic strategies to deal with the continuity of environmental racism, feminist labour struggles, colonial traces and indigenous knowledges. The journey proposed through this selection of films takes us from the sugar cane fields of Jamaica to burial grounds in the USA used as petrochemical plantations, from stolen flora and fauna seeded in Spain to the surviving ancestral Nahuatl floating gardens in Mexico.