The Barbican, London. November 2025. Curated by Becca Voelcker.

A season of rare films that sowed the seeds for climate justice today. From Japan to Brazil, Boston to Orkney, these films reveal how land shapes all of our lives.  

An urgent genre for our time, Land Cinema presents rare films from the 1950s to today, that explore the importance of our relationship to the planet and the land around us.

Digging into little-known regions and archives, Land Cinema unearths an enduring green counterculture. From filmed garden diaries to indigenous documentaries on farmers’ rights, stories and contemplations of our varied relationships to land are explored through a range of experimental films, documentaries, and essay-films. 

All screenings with introductions with curator Becca Voelcker. Q&As with writer Lucy Jones and director Ana Vaz. 

Harvard Film Archive, 2017. Curated by Becca Voelcker and Haden Guest.

Read programme notes here.