Multimedia | film profile
Manufactured Landscapes
This film is a photographic journey showing the effects of human activity on a variety of landscapes.
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Multimedia | film profile
Itam Hakim Hopiit
Celebrating the Hopi Tricentennial, Itam Hakim Hopiit is a poetic visualization of Hopi philosophy and prophesy.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Burtynsky, Edward, "My Wish: Manufactured Landscapes and Green Education"
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.
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Monuments | Risk and Militarization
Literary scholar Hsu Hsuan writes about how monuments affect the way we percieve a landscape and its history. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”
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On the trail of the Port Essington Expedition: Ludwig Leichhardt’s legacy in northern Australia | Ludwig Leichhardt
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Ludwig Leichhardt: A German Explorer’s Letters Home from Australia,” cultural studies researcher Heike Hartmann writes about the legacy of Dr. Leichhardt and his expeditions in Australia.
Multimedia | book profile
The River Runs Black. The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.
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Walden; or Life in the Woods
First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years in a cabin amidst woodland near Walden Pond.
Multimedia | film profile
Chasing Ice
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
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Unfinished Italy
This film investigates how people in Italy respond to the permanently unfinished infrastructure surrounding them.
Multimedia | film profile
My Mother, Oak
This film tells the stories of displaced people and livelihood changes in Iran after the construction of the Karun-3 Dam which submerged 12,300 acres of valuable forest with water.