Fessenden’s film among 30 essential eco-horrors
such as THE BIRDS, PROPHESY, PRINCESS MONONOKE, FROGS,
GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER, STALKER, WATERWORLD, etc…

ECO-HORROR & CLIMATE FICTION | OFFSCREEN

In the wake of the unprecedented pandemic, we plunge headfirst into the toxic ooze of the “anthropocene”, an epochal description of the last two hundred and fifty years, during which mankind has disrupted the climate and despoiled every last inch of Earth’s natural landscape…

Our programme includes no less than thirty films, divided between Cinema Nova and Cinematek. From an out-of-control climate (The Last Winter), retribution from the animal world (Long Weekend) and plagues of arthropods (Kingdom of the Spiders, Phase IV) to pandemics (The Andromeda Strain), pollution (Frogs) and overpopulation (Soylent Green), it will be a dark trip through cinematic depictions of climate fear, at the point where the dystopian sci-fi of the first ecological genre films of the 1970s is increasingly becoming a dangerous and tangible reality.

An American oil company rep (Ron Perlman) clashes with an environmental scientist on a remote Alaskan outpost afflicted by odd phenomena. An effect of climate change, or is everyone going stir crazy? Eerie indie eco-horror in which the snowy wasteland draws on its paranormal heritage to oppose the human invaders.…

THE LAST WINTER Introduced by Silvia Pastorelli (Greenpeace EU climate and energy expert)