More-than-human
Film and Visual Narratives

“It matters what stories tell stories; It matters whose stories tell stories.”

-Donna Haraway

The multifaceted representations of human and other-than-human interdependence film and visual cultures highlight complex relationships and ethical considerations in understanding a more-than-human world.

More-than-human Film and Visual Narratives aims to chronicle and survey the historical development of film and other visual representations of the non-human (animals and the natural environment). By “representations,” we go beyond examining visual images to explore the whole “social and cultural organization” of visual experience. The work done in this Work Package will be for publications, materials for a new MOOC public course series in Visual Environmental Education, and campus film festivals. A related goal is to establish a Society on Film and Sustainability at EduHK involving staff and students to organize and host film screening, workshops, and seminars on film culture and issues of environmental protection.

#Interspecies friendship

#Visual encyclopedia

#Eco-film

#Environmental visual education curriculum

#EdUHK film society

Projects in Action

Probing Visual Representations of Interspecies Friendship

Documentary Narratives on Animals, Farming Practices, and Food Politics

Building a Prototype Curriculum in Visual Environmental

Establishing the Society on Film and Sustainability at EduHK

This project combines academic research on human-nonhuman interdependence and interspecies friendship in films and media to build up a multi-disciplinary annotated filmography, with an engaging eco-film festival and writing camp tailored for EduHK students to facilitate the writing-up of a visual encyclopaedia of interspecies friendship.

This subproject will host two “perma-cinema” film symposiums to feature high-quality documentary films on the theme of sustainability, followed by discussions among humanities scholars, filmmakers and natural scientists.

This sub-project seeks to build a prototype curriculum on understanding the intersections between visuality and environmentalism that progress across different levels of learning, from primary, secondary, and tertiary education to adult education.

The Society on Film and Sustainability aims to establish EduHK's first-ever student-run Film Society, dedicated to exploring the intersection of visual culture and environmental sustainability. This initiative seeks to cultivate a dynamic space where students and staff can engage in critical discussions, creative practices, and knowledge sharing through film screenings, workshops, and seminars addressing pressing environmental protection and sustainable living issues.

Targeted Participants: EduHK students

Engaged Partners & Targeted Participants: Chinese and international documentary filmmakers + film audiences

Targeted Participants:

scholars in various disciplines, artists, educators, farmers, members of the public, multispecies communities.

Targeted Participants: EduHK students