Research Questions

The project as a whole aims to answer four questions: 

  1. What aesthetic and narrative choices and creative techniques do Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican filmmakers use to expose and critique the imbrication of colonial legacies with contemporary ecologies?
  2. How does comparative film analysis enable us to understand the ways in which contemporary experiences of ecological degradation and crisis are shaped by differing (post)colonial, political, socio-economic, and cultural contexts?
  3. How can film production and exhibition be used to offer joint responses to both ecological challenges and (post)colonial inequalities and injustices?
  4. In what ways, and to what extents, can film reconfigure our relationships to the human and non-human world, and so work towards a worldly, or decolonial ecology?