A Seed Towards Regenerative Filmmaking
摘要
Films have been spreading environmental awareness since their creation. While some have done this by addressing the multiple climate injustices around the world, such as Chasing Coral on the disappearance of coral reefs, others have imagined dystopia in far distant futures where nature has been destroyed by humans, such as WALL-E), a children’s movie about the last garbage cleaning robot left on a desolated Earth. Addressing real world crises within a script has always helped writers to anchor movies in reality, making them more relatable. We have had documentaries about animal and soil conservation, the meat industry, dramas about colonisation, nuclear catastrophe, and multiple natural disasters. Yet every single one of these movies has been powered by fossil fuels. This chapter recognises the filmmaking industry as a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions: from multiple flights to shoot one nature documentary, to big studio productions composed by thousands of lights, one-time sets, and motorhomes for celebrities. We have come to question how some of the most ambitious movies in our culture have turned out to be as polluting as, in some cases, the industries or economic systems they are questioning.