[ecrea] Transformations Issue 32 - What can moving images do?

Transformations Issue 32 What can moving images do? /Transformations 
/announces the release of Issue 32


*What Can Moving images Do? An Ecological Thinking of the Moving Image

*http://www.transformationsjournal.org/2018-issue-no-32-what-can-moving-images-do/
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/Issue 32 called for provocations into the human-nature relation through 
the questioning power of the moving image. In particular, the editors 
looked for contributions that focused on the function of the moving 
image as a material artefact or visual object within an ecological 
milieu or image-world, where the human relation to nature is rendered 
open-to-question. Thinking about the moving image extends to many 
formats, including panoramas, dioramas, video art installations, online 
digital displays, scientific data schematisation and other visual 
apparatuses, as well as narrative and non-narrative film and cinematic 
projection. We encouraged ecological approaches to the moving image, 
broadly comprising “film, video, broadcast television, moving 
computer-generated imagery, and, in short, any mass-produced moving 
image technologically within our reach now and in times to come” 
(Carroll xxi).

This issue considers “ecological webs” as image-worlds or /umwelten/ and 
engages critically with the modes of non-human signification enacted 
within moving image media. Theoretical advances in ecocinema, 
“eco-cinecriticism” and “green film criticism” (Ivakhiv 1) over the last 
twenty years highlight that “the cinematic experience is inescapably 
embedded in ecological webs” (Rust and Monani 2). The question of what 
moving images do ecologically calls to attention related questions of 
aesthetics, poetics, politics, ethics, mediation and representation of 
the /nature /of nature and the non-human. Towards these aims, the 
editors welcomed submissions from any of the disciplines that concern 
themselves, in one way or another, with the moving image, including film 
and cinema studies, new media and video, film-philosophy, literary 
studies, environmental humanities and associated disciplines.

Editors: Warwick Mules and John Charles Ryan

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*Articles

/Anna Boswell
/Anamorphic Ecology, or the Return of the Possum

/Therese Davis and Belinda Smaill
/Rethinking Documentary and the Environment: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Time
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Warwick Mules
/An Ecocritical Revaluation of the Cinematic Time-Image: Tarkovsky’s 
/Solaris
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/Anat Messing-Marcus
/(Non-)Moving Images: Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s /Homo Sapiens/ as a Cinema 
of Natural History
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Wood Roberdeau
/Scalar Aesthetics of Ecocinema: /The Wall/ and /The Survivalist
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/Lisa FitzGerald
/Black Gold: Digitally-Simulated Environments and the Material 
Aesthetics of Oil

/Sasha Litvintseva
/Geological Filmmaking: Seeing Geology Through Film and Film Through Geology

/Anna Madeleine Raupach
/Re-animating Climate Change: Abstract Temporalities in Augmented Reality

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