{"id":1215,"date":"2019-04-08T20:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radicalfilmnetwork.de\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2019-04-08T20:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:42:25","slug":"porn-parasites-and-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/porn-parasites-and-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Porn, Parasites, and the Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"In this lecture I wish to explore the question \u2018What is radical film\u2019 with a Deleuzean twist \u2014 thus rather asking \u201cWhat can radical film be(come)\u201d or \u201cWhat can it do?\u201d. Approaching this question from an ecological perspective, one can extrapolate a novel potential of film making\/activism that I will coin \u2018Parasitic Activism\u2019 through probing the (originally Berlin-based) eco-porn platform Fuck for Forest. <!--more--> Investigating this platform will open up how sex, porn, activism, and nature are entangled and potentially reconfigured in new ways in this platform. The pornography of the platform gestures towards a potent and effective form of film making that blurs and renegotiates the boundaries of the human and its relation to nature, which will show new ways of thinking the objectives and possibilities of radical ecological film making. Moreover, through extending the concept of \u2018the parasite\u2019 towards the realm of activist and radical film making, it allows us to see how an unconventional practice of filmmaking can create new forms of change and resistance, in a time when resistance seems futile, or even impossible. \n\nAldo Kempen is student of Philosophy in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Cambridge and active in grass-root environmental and queer activism\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this lecture I wish to explore the question \u2018What is radical film\u2019 with a Deleuzean twist \u2014 thus rather asking \u201cWhat can radical film be(come)\u201d or \u201cWhat can it do?\u201d. Approaching this question from an ecological perspective, one can extrapolate a novel potential of film making\/activism that I will coin \u2018Parasitic Activism\u2019 through probing [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}