Filmic Forest

Essay, 2021

The Filmic Forest is a research and essay project that explores ‘wilderness’ within Swedish contemporary film. The project investigates the interconnections of human and nonhuman life within the Scandinavian forest through a careful dissection of space-time, body, and movement within selected film sequences, each chosen for their individual depiction of ‘wilderness’. Film can simultaneously reflect anthropocentric anxieties toward the dying planet while challenging broadly accepted notions of ‘nature’ and ‘wilderness’.

Multiple Swedish films speculate on a future danger caused by the Anthropocene and humanity’s relationship to the natural world. However, this thesis moves beyond the film’s themes, examining the spatial and temporal architectural relationships encapsulated within the filmic forest. The project dissects the characteristics of the filmic environments presented through filmic investigations using analysis techniques, including deconstructive diagrams, digital filmic reconstructions and systematic still compositions to construct observations.

Acknowlegements

Thanks to:
Elise Hunchuck

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