Syllabus Spring 2023

HOME BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

Erika Kiss, Princeton University

ECS 389 / CHV 389 / HUM 389 / ENV 389

Environmental Film Studies: Research Film Studio Class #41709

In the interface of environmental and film studies, this multidisciplinary course investigates the
phenomenology of home in relation to the environment and a the civilizational (both cultural and
technological) paradigms of colonizing versus nomadic homemaking through examples from
masterpieces of cinema and our own short research film exercises.

Introduction: Home Beyond Good and Evil

Atlas Procession I

William Kentridge

(2000)

Atlas Procession II

William Kentridge

(2002)

Coral: Rekindling Venus

Lynette Wallworth

(2012)

Gomorra

Matteo Garrone

(2008)

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Nomad and the Settler

The Passenger

Michelangelo Antonioni

(1975)

The Blackboard

Samira Makhmalbaf

(2000)

Time of the Gypsies

Emir Kusturica

(1988)

Philosophy of History

Ibn Khaldun

Theses on the Philosophy of History

Walter Benjamin

(1940)

The Anarchitect

One Week

Buster Keaton

(1920)

Zabriskie Point

Michelangelo Antonioni

(1970)

Gordon Matta-Clark and Le Corbusier

The Odyssey of the American Mind

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

(1968)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1885)

The History of Astronomy

Adam Smith

The Homeless

Parasite

Bong Joon Ho

(2019)

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

(1936)

‘Wicked Liberty’ and ‘Hiding in Plain Site’ in The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber, David Wengrow

(2021)

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Benh Zeitlin

(2012)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson

(2009)

The Politics of Beauty

John de Graaf, Stewart Udall

(2022)

Walking

Henry David Thoreau

(1851 - 1860)

How Much Should a Person Consume?: Environmentalism in India and the United States

Ramachandra Guha

(1989)

Grand Hotel Abyss

Shining

Stanley Kubrick,

(1980)

Melancholia

Lars Von Trier

(2011)

Grand Hotel Abyss

György Lukács

(1933)

Nuclear

Dreams

Akira Kurosawa

(1990)

Collisions

Lynette Wallworth

(2016)

Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky

(1979)

Language of Vision

György Kepes

(1944)

Atmosphere

Nope

Jordan Peele

(2022)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Hayao Miyazaki

(1984)

The Wind Rises

Hayao Miyazaki

(2013)

Awavena

Lynette Wallworth

(2018)

Atmospheres of Projection

Giuliana Bruno

Water

Ponyo

Hayao Miyazaki

(2008)

Treme

Agnieszka Holland

(2010)

Quiet as Kept

Charles Burnett

(2007)

H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness

Ivan Illich

(1985)

Transparency

Hiroshima, Mon Amour

Alain Resnais

(1959)

Language of Vision

György Kepes

(1944)

Transparency: Literal and Phenomenological

Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky

(1997)

America’s World Purpose

William Ernest Hocking

Data Architecture

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

(1985)

The Dynamics of the Metropolis

László Moholy-Nagy

Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today

Sergei Eisenstein

Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others

Louise Amoore

(2020)

Guest: Fadi Chehadé

Films

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky

(1966)

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

(1972)

Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky

(1979)

Mirror

Andrei Tarkovsky

(1975)

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

(1968)

Shining

Stanley Kubrick,

(1980)

Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick

(1975)

The Searchers

John Ford

(1956)

Zabriskie Point

Michelangelo Antonioni

(1970)

Blow Up

Michelangelo Antonioni

(1966)

The Passenger

Michelangelo Antonioni

(1975)

Awavena

Lynette Wallworth

(2018)

Stromboli

Roberto Rossellini

(1950)

Hiroshima, Mon Amour

Alain Resnais

(1959)

Inside Out

Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen

(2015)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Hayao Miyazaki

(1984)

My Neighbor, Totoro

Hayao Miyazaki

(1988)

Ponyo

Hayao Miyazaki

(2008)

The Wind Rises

Hayao Miyazaki

(2013)

Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki

(2001)

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Benh Zeitlin

(2012)

Time of the Gypsies

Emir Kusturica

(1988)

Dreams

Akira Kurosawa

(1990)

One Week

Buster Keaton

(1920)

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

(1936)

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

(1985)

Containment

Peter Galison, Robb Moss

(2015)

Milky Way

Bence Fliegauf

(2007)

Womb

Bence Fliegauf

(2010)

Just the Wind

Bence Fliegauf

(2012)

The Turin Horse

Béla Tarr

(2011)

Battleship of Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein

(1925)

Parasite

Bong Joon Ho

(2019)

Charlatan

Agnieszka Holland

(2021)

La Dolce Vita

Federico Fellini

(1960)

8 ½

Federico Fellini

(1963)

Treme

Agnieszka Holland

(2010)

Melancholia

Lars Von Trier

(2011)

Gomorra

Matteo Garrone

(2008)