Research Questions
The project as a whole aims to answer four questions:
- 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?
- 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?
- How can film production and exhibition be used to offer joint responses to both ecological challenges and (post)colonial inequalities and injustices?
- 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?