Multimedia | film profile
2012—Time for Change
2012—Time for Change sees the Mayan Calendar’s prediction of imminent doom as an opportunity for transformation.
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Multimedia | film profile
GAMBIT
Released almost 30 years later, this documentary examines events surrounding the major industrial accident at the trichlorphen plant ICMESA, near Seveso (“Seveso chemical disaster”).
Arcadia
Beaches to Blazes: Remembering the 1887 Cape Cod Wildfires Ahead of a Potentially Fiery Future
Although known today more for beaches than blazes, Cape Cod experienced severe wildfires in 1887 that—when remembered—draw attention to the region’s inherent flammability and need for fire-adaptive management.
Arcadia
A Paradise in Spring: An Ecological Account of Birds, Fishes, and Hunters in the Bāburnāma
Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur’s autobiography anticipates an ecological and multispecies way of understanding the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans.
Arcadia
Miyaoi Yasuo’s Perspective on Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Intersecting Humans and Animals, Shared Emotions and Ethics
Miyaoi Yasuo’s 1858 collection of tales, Kidan zasshi, challenges assumed human–animal boundaries, portraying shared ethics, reincarnation, and emotional connections by blending folklore and insights drawn from Edo-period experience.
Arcadia
Whale Sharks: A Window Into the Ocean and Ourselves
Whale sharks gather each year at Ningaloo Reef, their seasonal appearances drawing intensive human attention, reminding us that the story of the ocean is also our own story.
Arcadia
The Multispecies Intellectual History of the Kumano Kodō: Minakata Kumagusu, Slime Moulds, and Shrine Merger, 1906–1914
How a Japanese naturalist-polymath’s fascination with slime mold shaped a multispecies onto-epistemology—and a fierce campaign to protect shrines and sacred forests.
Arcadia
Climate Litigation in Brazil: The Case of Lagoa da Conceição
In 2021, a disaster in Florianópolis prompted a lawsuit that might have far-reaching effects on environmental law.
Arcadia
Forest Conservation and the Exploration of Carpathian Fungi: Albert Pilát’s Primeval Forest Awareness and the Emergence of Modern Mycology
Interwar nature conservation in Subcarpathian Ruthenia created conditions for Albert Pilát’s research, which shaped modern mycology and forest awareness.