Films and Screenings

AGON: Constructions of Democracy

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Culture and Communication Research Centre

Power and Gardens

“Power and Gardens” is a four-part video essay by Nico Carpentier that investigates how human-nature relationships are condensed in the gardens of the European cities of Paris, Lyon and Prague. Driven by a discursive-material analysis, the essay is a reflection on how gardens are locations where nature is tamed, and how they often perform an anthropocentric ideology that is strengthened by a series of other discourses, such as capitalism and colonialism.

Published as audiovisual essay in Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays, 12, 2023(2).

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New Modes of Environmental Communication

“New Modes of Environmental Communication: Four Street Art Experiments” is a 23:34-minute documentary film by Ali Minanto, that reflects on how knowledge about the environment is produced and shared in creative ways, moving beyond the, sometimes, narrow spaces of academia, without disregarding academic knowledge.

Conceptualization of Change

“Conceptualization of Change” is a 12-minute film that provides a theoretical reflection on the signifier “change”, and its five dimensions: Normativity, Scale and Intensity, Focus, Control and Time. Filmed in Prague, with the integration of archive material that is mostly related to the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the essay unpacks the significatory complexity of change, mapping the diversity of meanings that have been allocated to this notion.

Published as audiovisual essay in the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts.

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Silencing / Unsilencing Nature

Silencing / Unsilencing Nature is a series of four episodes, with a duration of 26 minutes, that unpack the relationship between humans and nature, and how nature often has been silenced. The four videos are part of an educational package that also includes an introductory video, one or two exercises for each of the four episodes, two assignment videos, an epilogue video and a workshop script.

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AGON: Constructions of Democracy

Agon is a film essay that reflects about the meaning of democracy, and how it is contested. The film combines the aesthetics of the Czech capital Prague with an intercultural dialogue with the Indonesian community (and other communities) living in this city, thus opening up further spaces for democratic inquiry.

Published as film essay in the Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays,16, 2025(2).

IKSŽ publication report in English and in Czech.