However, the article also focuses ecocinematic research towards issues of reception, examining film’s capacity to affect the spectators: the slow contemplation of the world is posited as an essential aspect of ecocinema. MacDonald’s text is pioneering in several ways, first because it posits experimental films as privileged sites for ‘ecocinema’, an intuition that seems to be confirmed by the significance given to experimental films in ecocritical studies since then. Over the years, this concept of ‘ecocinema’ has become a widely discussed object of study by ecocritics, including a large spectrum of styles and media. The idea of an ‘Eco-Cinema’ was first proposed in an article from 2004 by Scott MacDonald, which examined avant-garde, non-commercial film productions, where the filmmaker’s experience of being immersed in the natural environment was poetically attuned to the material vulnerability of the film medium. (Site St Charles, Turbulence Building, 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille or by Zoom) 16 and 17 November 2023 / Aix-Marseille University
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