Media/Environment Short Film Programme

An evening of short films exploring the intersections between ecology and technology

Wu Chi-Yu presents two films from his Stories of Celluloid series, examining the past lives and present conditions of cinema as resource extraction. Drawing on historical footage about camphor, a forest product needed to make early cinema, the films explore how ecological transformation and colonial modernity became entangled with moving images.

Screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Suzette Bousema’s documentary Dead Zones investigates oxygen-deprived areas in the ocean alongside issues of water quality in the Netherlands. The film highlights how microalgae blooms—fueled by agricultural fertilizers and other waste streams—disrupt aquatic ecosystems and affect coastal areas around the world.

In Agrilogistics and Bliss Point, Gerard Ortín explores technological transformations in contemporary Dutch industrial agriculture. His films examine the automation of food production and the intersections between human labour and the aesthetics and politics of food.