GreenScreen - sustainability-related films

GreenScreen is a film event held six times a year at the Brotfabrik cinema (located in an old bread baking factory), organized by the University of Bonn Team N (N for “Nachhaltigkeit” or “sustainability”) in partnership with Bonner Kinemathek and the Brotfabrik Bonn cultural center.

A picture is worth a thousand words they say,

so moving pictures with sound can say a whole lot more!

Movies are aptly named because they move our emotions—through scenes that leave an impression and lead us to insights. GreenScreen is about promoting dialogue on issues typically discussed in university lecture halls through the medium of artistic film.

Team N invites researchers whose work concerns aspects of sustainability. The films selected will reflect the broad diversity that characterizes sustainability research itself, ranging from retro arthouse to pop culture classics and the latest blockbusters—anything goes.

Engaging in dialogue with the audience is a highly important aspect. The evenings start with a research-relevant introduction. Then, after watching the film together, everyone is invited to stay on in the cinema and join the exchange.

There are two things you stand to gain from attending: a new perspective on a classic film (or two), and insights into current sustainability research!

Next film: The Salt of the Earth (2014)

Introduction: Professor Eva Nöthen and Gabriel Bohn

Released as a documentary film ten years ago, THE SALT OF THE EARTH portrays the life and work of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. For more than 50 years Salgado has been documenting the traces of our ever-changing world and history of humankind across all continents. In doing so, he has been witness to important events of recent decades—international conflicts, war, starvation, displacement and suffering. Yet his fascinating black and white photographs also illuminate our planet’s beauty of landscapes still pristine.

THE SALT OF THE EARTH shows the photographer and his work from the perspective of two directors: his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, who in recent years often accompanied his father filming, and Wim Wenders, an admirer of Salgados photography, a photographer himself and also one of the great filmmakers of our time.

Professor Eva Nöthen and Gabriel Bohn are part of the “Geographical Education“ working group at the University of Bonn’s Department of Geography. Headed by Professor Nöthen, the working group’s focus in research and teaching is on sustainable development and environmental education, visuality and media education, artistic research and aesthetic education.