NOVEMBER 27, 2025, 3:00–5:00PM
A talk about how trees have been deployed as living profilmic objects & powerful symbols in a range of films, from documentaries to genre pictures to auteurist works, including European period dramas, adaptations of Jane Austen, a Cuban film about slavery, & the 2021 documentary, Taming the Garden.
Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of Black Image- Making and Whiteness and ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen, and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe.
In person in DT1212 or register here to attend on zoom. To be followed by drinks at Mike’s.