Cinema and Nature: Contemporary Experiments from Brazil
Date and time:
Saturday, April 26 at 3pm
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L01
(320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511)
Free and open to the public!
Post-show discussion moderated by
Wilson Oliveira Filho (Yale Visiting Professor, Fulbright Commission-Brasília) and
Oksana Chefranova (Associate Research Scholar, Yale Film and Media Studies)
Description: A festival of Brazilian experimental films that engage with the concept of nature within the context of the Anthropocene era. These include poetic essays, documentaries, and an AI-generated film. In contemporary discourse, the intersection of art and nature is increasingly significant. Cinema, as a medium, serves as a critical conduit for understanding both the world and the subject, while also facilitating the exploration of emerging cosmologies. Films that do not merely depict nature as a backdrop; rather, they emphasize the notion that media can be conceptualized as an environment — an essential tool for humanity’s existential reflection. As Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian media theorist, suggested in his 1966 address, “the experimental artist is always constructing models of future situations that provide reliable headlights for social navigation.”
Films include:
LAVRA (2021)
Um jardim singular (2017)
Obsolescência desprogramada (2019)
Nuclear emulsion (2013)
Somos: THE CREATION OF YBIRÁ-UBUNTU (2025)
Sponsored by the Yale Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies