Animation and Green Storytelling - AFV0000443

• Title: Animation and Green Storytelling
• Guaranteed by: Film Studies Department (21-KFS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:4/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jana Rogoff, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Jana Rogoff, Ph.D.

Annotation

Animation and sustainability relate to each other on three levels. Firstly, ‘green filming’ where the carbon footprint of making an animated film is in the center of attention. But how do we study, understand, and define the carbon footprint of an animated text? How does international legislature change in favor of ‘green filming’? What data are accessible to us when researching animation production from this perspective? Secondly, sustainability dwells in the concept of ‘green storytelling’. In this time of climactic upheaval and in a world where many of us consume hours of audiovisual material daily, agitated debates take place about the potential of film (including animation) in making a difference through content proofing. Imagining, showing, narrating an environmentally viable future … Where do these debates take place? What are the emerging models in this sphere? What have become the cliches and the major challenges in taking these debates further? Finally, the most mysterious and elusive level is that of consumption. How do we translate our modes of consuming audiovisual content into figures and modify our practices to become more sustainable? This seminar will provide an opportunity to discuss these questions in link with several prime examples of contemporary mainstream and independent animation.

Block seminar, October 31st- December 5th.<br>

Last update: Rogoff Jana, Mgr., Ph.D. (08.09.2024)

Course completion requirements

A short presentation related to the topic of the session. A four-page written essay/ a video essay / a podcast / or interview as the outcome of the seminar. Team work is welcome. 

Last update: Rogoff Jana, Mgr., Ph.D. (08.09.2024)

Literature

Preliminary Reading

Bozak, Nadia. 2012. The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 

Brinkmann, Robert, and Sandra J. Garren. 2018. The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

De Luca, Tiago. 2022. Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Heidsiek, Birgit, and Anika Kruse. 2023. Stop Motion Green Guide by StopMoLab. Greenfilmshooting.net

Marks, Laura U. 2024. The Fold. From Your Body to the Cosmos. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Maxwell, Richard, and Toby Miller. 2012. Greening the Media. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Murray, Robin L., and Joseph K. Heumann. 2011. That's All Folks? Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Roche, Adrien. 2024. A Green Production Guide for Animation. ecoprod.com

Heise, Ursula K. 2014. Plasmatic Nature: Environmentalism and Animated Film. Public Culture 26, 2 (73): 301–318.

Last update: Rogoff Jana, Mgr., Ph.D. (08.09.2024)

Teaching methods

Active participation in discussion of texts and films.

Last update: Rogoff Jana, Mgr., Ph.D. (08.09.2024)