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Land Cinema

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A poppy blooms in a garden.

A season of rare films that sowed the seeds for climate justice today. From Japan to Brazil, Boston to Orkney, these films reveal how land shapes all of our lives.  

An urgent genre for our time, Land Cinema presents rare films from the 1950s to today, that explore the importance of our relationship to the planet and the land around us.

Digging into little-known regions and archives, Land Cinema unearths an enduring green counterculture. From filmed garden diaries to indigenous documentaries on farmers’ rights, stories and contemplations of our varied relationships to land are explored through a range of experimental films, documentaries, and essay-films. 

On sale this September.

All screenings with introductions with curator Becca Voelcker. Q&As with writer Lucy Jones and director Ana Vaz. 

Curated by Dr Becca Voelcker 

Land Cinema complements a forthcoming book by Becca Voelcker, Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction (University of California Press). 

Dr Becca Voelcker 

Becca Voelcker is Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BBC New Generation Thinker. She earned her PhD at Harvard University and has worked in Britain, Japan and the US.