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This program aims to present experimental films that intend to capture the entangled relationship between humans and non-humans. Evoking Scott MacDonald’s concept of “eco cinema,” (2012) these works indeed can be seen as tools of developing a “more environmentally progressive mindset” by offering an alternative to conventional spectatorship. The films presented in this screening offer the possibility to re-think (as in thinking it over and over again) how we perceive our being in the world by highlighting relations rather than separations. Moving beyond these more general questions, many of the films are engaged in bringing specific ecological problems to the fore such as the aftermath of nuclear catastrophes, climate change and the massive extraction of raw materials. Accordingly, they can also be considered as examples of eco-trauma cinema. These works do not only confront us with the challenges of documenting our entangled intra-relating with other humans and non-humans but also the challenges of documenting eco-trauma in (audio)visual arts. Film Program Section I It Matters What (Francisca Duran, Canada, 2019, 9’06) It Matters What is a poetic manifesto of Donna J. Haraway’s essay “Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene” (2016). Zona Abissal (Luisa Marques and Darks Miranda, Brazil, 2020, 13’33) Zona Abissal is a found footage film that follows a hybrid entity that arises from a forest exploited for its latex, struggling to survive along with other non/human agents amidst the destruction of the world as we know it. Atomic Garden (Ana Vaz, 2018, Brazil, 8’00) Atomic Garden is a stroboscopic tale of Aoki Sadako, an elderly resident of Nahara city that was evacuated due to the tsunami-turned-toxic disaster of March 2011 in Fukushima. During the five years of her evacuation she kept returning to her home in order to care for her garden. Section II Avant l’effondrement du Mont Blanc (Jacques Perconte, France, 2020, 16’08) Avant l’effondrement du Mont Blanc is about the fall of Mont Blanc, the collapse of mountains speeded up by the heat that rises ever faster. Badlands (Eva Kolcze, Canada, 2013, 3’12) The Cheltenham Badlands are exposed geological formations caused by the removal of trees and early farming practices that came into being at the base of an ancient sea about 450 million years ago. Sueña el holobionte con virus cibernético (Bruno Varela, Mexico, 2020, 01’34) An encounter of intra-relating holobionts: entangled assemblages of hosts and other species that live in or around them, forming an ecological unit.