Land Cinema
New Generation Thinker Becca Voelcker researches art film and ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London
If cinema is often associated with Hollywood or the European New Wave, since the 1970s activist-filmmakers around the world have been involving local people in telling their own stories. Co-creating films about land rights, food security, and pollution, these filmmakers pioneered what Becca Voelcker calls Land Cinema. In her essay, she shares examples made by Zhang Mengqi, Tsuchimoto Noriaki, Ogawa Productions and Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien
Dr Becca Voelcker is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the 大象传媒 to put academic research on radio.
At Goldsmiths, University of London she lectures on art, film and visual culture, particularly in relation to politics and ecology; and has written for publications including Screen, Frieze and Sight & Sound.
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