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Monkeywrenched images: ecocinema and sabotage
New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2020-07-02 , DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2020.1790480
Graig Uhlin 1
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ABSTRACT Ecological sabotage, or monkeywrenching, involves the destruction of property and infrastructure to defend nature from industrial development. Its emblematic tactic is tree spiking, where a ceramic spike is hammered into old-growth trees in order to disable logging equipment. This essay considers monkeywrenching to be as much an aesthetic practice as an activist one, and it examines films that utilize principles of sabotage as a formal strategy. Through an analysis of films such as Leviathan (2012), The East (2013), Night Moves (2013), and the works of James Benning, I argue that cinematic monkeywrenching entails a modernist practice that disrupts the image’s mimetic representation of nature and criticizes commercial cinema’s exploitation of the environment. These techniques produce an ‘ugly’ aesthetic, where ugliness, according to Theodor Adorno, registers the injury to nature caused by its do7mination by humanity. A monkeywrenched cinema is one that produces an aesthetic suspension or temporal delay in film’s depiction of non-human nature as a means of expressing a non-interventionist ethical relation to the world.

中文翻译:

胡闹的图像:生态电影和破坏活动

摘要生态破坏或破坏活动涉及破坏财产和基础设施,以保护自然免受工业发展的侵害。它的标志性策略是刺树,将一枚陶瓷钉钉在老树上,以禁用伐木设备。本文认为活动折纸与活动主义者一样是一种审美实践,并且研究了将破坏原则作为正式策略的电影。通过对诸如利维坦(2012),东方(2013),夜行(2013)和詹姆士·本宁(James Benning)的作品的分析,我认为电影化的折磨需要现代主义的实践,破坏了图像对自然的模仿表现并提出了批评。商业电影院对环境的开发。这些技术产生了“丑陋”的美学,其中丑陋,根据西奥多·阿多诺(Theodor Adorno)的说法,记录了人类对自然的控制所造成的自然伤害。胡闹的电影院是一种在电影的非人性描述中产生美学上的悬浮或时间上的延迟的电影,以此表达与世界的非干预主义伦理关系。
更新日期:2020-07-02
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