Film and Mass Media Assistant Professor Georg Koszulinski won Best Feature Film at the New York Science Fiction Film Festival for his feature film, Red Earth. The Film Festival is a combination of screenings, panels, sci-fi retrospectives, and installation/exhibitions. Red Earth is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV and Tubi.
Here’s a synopsis of the film:
Red Earth imagines a world in the late Anthropocene, where large parts of Earth have become inhospitable to life. The story follows a single family across three generations, from the initial colonists to settle on Mars to the first expedition to return to an Earth decimated by interplanetary war. Red Earth utilizes a hybrid non-fiction/epistolary framework to recount the experiences of Kasei Harriot—the last woman on Mars to be born on Earth.
Also, this month, Labocine will release Koszulinski’s most recent short film, Chronotope Earth 1985 to Future, in their October issue, titled The Ecosystem. “The Ecosystem” film program features a selection of films that delve into the biological, cultural, and creative ecosystems that thrive on diversity. Through a blend of documentary, experimental, and narrative works, the program illustrates how a multitude of perspectives, species, and ideas sustain innovation, resilience, and harmony in both nature and human society.
Check it out here: https://www.labocine.com/.
Chronotope Earth 1985 to Future is an environmentally focused piece that champions a speech given by Carl Sagan to the United States Senate in 1985. It also recently screened at the Bogotá Experimental Film Festival last month.
Here’s a synopsis of the film:
In 1938, the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin coined the term ‘chronotope’ to describe the role time and space plays in literature. In 1985, the American astronomer, Carl Sagan testified before congress on the subject of the greenhouse effect and the need for the world’s governments to work together to address the issue. Bakhtin’s literary theory applied to specific locations in a story that indicate aspects of time. But what if we considered the earth itself the ‘setting’ for the story, and how might that alter our conception of time? Chronotope Earth 1985 to Future explores this idea.
Written by Majdulina Hamed.
Published to Nicholson News on November 4th, 2024.
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