Cinematic Atmospheres: Aesthetics and Politics of Air in Women’s Ecocinema
Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.
Sponsored by the Ecomedia Interest Group, this guaranteed panel invites contributions exploring the intersection of atmospheric aesthetics and ecocinema through the lens of women filmmakers. Drawing on the conceptualization of air as a medium (Horn 2018) and the philosophy of elemental media (Peters 2016), we examine how cinema, through genre, technique, or form, relates to the material, political, and sensory dimensions of air. This approach fosters a prismatic understanding ...