Elemental World Cinema

Tiago de Luca is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. His research lies broadly in the fields of contemporary world cinema, global film aesthetics and ecocinema. He is the author of Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth (2022) and Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality (2014), and the co-editor of Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (2022) and Slow Cinema (2016).Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research interests lie broadly in film-philosophies and filmed environments, particularly in the context of genocide and violence. She was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (University of Sussex) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Cambridge). She is the author of Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge (2020) and Temporality and Film Analysis (2012), the co-editor of The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia (2016) and the co-author of Remembering Katyn (2012).

• Introduction: The Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air>Tiago de Luca and Matilda MrozPART 1: Troubling Terrain: Framing the Agencies of Stone and Soil1 Abbas Kiarostami, Global Art Cinema and the Material Imagination of Earth 29Graig Uhlin2 Earth After Death: Posthumous Cinematic Ecologies in Holocaust Documentary Film 48Matilda MrozPART 2: Scorched Earth: Cinemas of Eruption and Combustion3 Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies 73Patrick Brian Smith4 Cinema as Volcano: Thinking Cinema Through the Volcano with Malena Szlam, Werner Herzog and Jean Epstein 95Jessica Mulvogue5 Tectonic Memories: Film, Geology and Archives in Diana Vidrașcu’s Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? (2019) 116Toby AshworthPART 3: Liquid Poetics: Seas, Rivers and Anticolonial Currents6 Untamed Storms: Cinema’s Oceanic Contingency and Mati Diop’s Atlantics 139Laurence Kent7 Imagining the Elements with Gaston Bachelard and Claire Denis: ‘Weighted’ Images, Drift and Diffusion in L’Intrus/The Intruder 157Saige Walton8 Animated Waters and the Circulation of Indigenous Instruction 177Joanna HearnePART 4: Clouded Visions: Atmospheric Contingencies9 Stormy Images: Elemental Kinetics in the Recent Films of Takashi Makino (2018–2021) 203Kaya Turan10 Nebulous Cinema 225Tiago de Luca11 Geoblocking the Sun: Solar Eclipses in Transnational Artists’ Film 248Stefan SolomonIndex