Bjork Dives Deep Into Virtual Reality
Bjork’s stunning evolution continues with the interactive VR project, “Family” — which may also be one of the most dazzling cli-fi experiments yet created.
Terror and Terraformation
The National Parks
They called me into the office around dawn.
“We want you to clear out the National Parks.”
Cli-Fi: The Ivory Game
It is human evil that created the Anthropocene, which in turn has spawned its own strains of villainy.
Cli-Fi: Werner Herzog Journeys Into the Inferno
The infamous German auteur dives beneath the surface of our overheating Earth.
Rogue One: Star Wars’ Technocratic Takeover
You can’t get more cli-fi than a death machine pretending to be a planet.
Cli-Fi: Director Remi Chaye Breaks Down Long Way North’s Arctic Animation
One of those rare films, especially in animation, that analyzes the dizzying complexity of life on Earth using what John Muir called the “glacial eye.”
Cli-Fi: Leo Tours The Anthropocene, Before The Flood
Leonardo DiCaprio has been invested in global warming. His latest exploration of extinction and Earth is upon us.
Cli-Fi: Margaret Atwood’s Angel Catbird Takes Flight
Atwood is at last joining the realm of comics.
Cli-Fi: Nirvana’s Nevermind, 25 Years Green
It remains one of the strongest cornerstones of cli-fi
Tesla Energy Runs Over Natural Gas
a contract to replace a so-called natural gas nightmare we can see from a space
R.I.P. Gene Wilder: 1933 – 2016
The Man Who Broke My Brain
Fracking Ignorance is Party Agnostic
Hillary Clinton has appointed Ken Salazar as the head of her transition team. This is a major problem.
Cli-Fi: When Two Worlds Collide
The Amazon’s lethal, exponential extractivism comes fearsomely into focus
Brett Netson’s Caustic Resin Justly Resurfaces
I’ve spoken a few times with the unorthodox guitar hero Brett Netson, so I’m pretty stoked
Cli-Fi: Indian Point Melts Down
An unblinking look at the dramatic debate over nuclear power.
It’s Official: Elon Musk’s Future Industries Converge
It was just a matter of time before Tesla Motors and SolarCity synergized.
Cli-Fi: Angelina Jolie Joins Cartoon Saloon’s The Breadwinner
GKIDS teamed up with Song of the Sea‘s Cartoon Saloon — and Angelina Jolie — to bring Afghanistan’s terrorized tale of the Anthropocene to our poor kids.
PJ Harvey Portals to Afghanistan
We know there is tragedy but what we see is resilience.
Stop Running Away From Global Warming, Fort McMurray
Fort McMurray is predictably swallowed by a sprawling inferno.
Exponology Swallows New York
New York’s Democratic primary was a hot mess that can only be explained via disturbing imagery.
Forest 500 Animates Reality of Rainforest Destruction
Can an earnest but alarming cartoon help stop the 500 companies, investors and governments deforesting the Earth to crisis?
Happy Anniversary, Takahata’s Only Yesterday
Led by women and empowered by the natural world, Only Yesterday may not be as well-known as Takahata’s masterpieces like Grave of the Fireflies and The Tale of Princess Kaguya, but its revelatory journey through the rural countryside still covers familiar territory.
Rethink What We Think is Normal: Interview With Dissonance Director Till Nowak
German-born artist and filmaker Till Nowak is a rare talent who can work across art forms and scientific disciplines, until his viewers are left disoriented and dazzled.
When Will We Strive Again For the Heights of Avatar and Legend of Korra?
Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra are two of the most ambitious and moving animated series of this still-new millennium. Indeed, pound for pound, they can stand alongside most non-animated series and still hold their own.
Interview: Ken Duncan On Creating New Scenes for The Iron Giant
I spoke with Duncan by phone about how his studio’s work on The Iron Giant: Signature Edition came to pass, and why hand-drawn animation, after years of laboring beneath CG’s towering shadow, is on the comeback trail.