Ithaca College

How does the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) celebrate its 20th anniversary by avoiding simply wallowing in nostalgia for festivals past?

It looks to the future by inviting twenty former FLEFF guests to ruminate on what new ideas, issues, or subjects were developing, percolating, or unresolved in their fields.

The essays in FLEFF's 20 on 20 project are penned by an interdisciplinary array of luminaries from across the globe in cinema, arts, literature, social science, health, music, poetry, and more.   

Featured writers include:  

Barbara Adams*, Rico Aditjondro, Christine Bataille*, Brett Bossard, Rodrigo Brandao, Karin Chien, Vanessa Domico, Janet Galvan*, Georgekutty A.L., Jairo Geronymo, STeven Ginsberg*, Cynthia Henderson*, Jen Heuson, Dale Hudson, Sorayya Khan, Louis Massiah, Tim McCaskell, Idriossou Mora Kpai, Claudia Pederson, and Raj Subramanian*. (* designates current Ithaca College faculty member).

The essays probe African cinema, Brazilian film, underground Chinese cinema, the resurgence of Latin American cinema, the new landscapes of queer cinemas.

They investigate the vast ecologies of community media, environmental new media art, water rights festivals, changing media platforms for entertainment, and nonprofit art cinemas, and social media anti-smoking campaigns.

They analyze books on exile that bring us home, choral music, classical music's audiences, Nigerian poetry, theater for social change, queer and black activism, exiled artists and totalitarian regimes, women and the workplace, and children's health and public schools.

The collection was coedited by Stephen Tropiano, associate professor of screen studies and interim associate director of FLEFF, and Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and codirector of FLEFF.

The twenty essays can be read here:  www.ithaca.edu/fleff/tropianoandzimmermann/

FLEFF: A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT