On Wednesday, January 25, 2023, the UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Program in the School of Film, TV, and Digital Media welcomes Professor Kim Knowles from Aberystwyth University, Wales to come give a talk on her latest work. They invite interested students to attend the talk and screening at Darren Star Theatre 1422 Melnitz.
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The Cinema of Multi-Species Encounters
What new languages of multispecies co-existence can the moving image offer? Why is film so frequently overlooked by eco-philosophers as a serious mode of ecological expression? This talk and screening explores possible avenues for approaching film as a form of ecological thinking, using the radical aesthetics of experimental cinema as a starting point.
Kim Knowles is a Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor Alternative and Experimental Film at Aberystwyth University, Wales. She is the author of A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray (2012) and Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices (2020). She has curated screenings at festivals and venues worldwide and was Experimental Film Programmer at the Edinburgh International Film Festival