Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction

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by Becca Voelcker

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

social aspects, ecology

Publishing date

2025 (December 16, 2025)

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 296 pages
5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches (14 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-0-520-41645-1

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Book Presentation:
Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility. Diving into little-known archives to explore films that resonate across geographies, Becca Voelcker unearths key examples of eco-political counterculture, from farmer-filmmakers in Japan and Mali to a gardener-filmmaker in Massachusetts, and from filmed landscape-portraits of women in Los Angeles, Orkney, and the Navajo Nation to Indigenous documentaries about land dispossession in Colombia. Proposing "land cinema" as an urgent genre for our time, this book reveals how images and ideas produced half a century ago sowed the seeds for climate justice movements today.

About the Author:
Becca Voelcker is Lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was named a BBC New Generation Thinker in 2024.

See the publisher website: University of California Press