ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses how film and the Anthropocene are closely entangled. Given that the Anthropocene addresses all realms of life, also the aesthetic becomes eco-political. The chapter addresses recent films by German filmmaker and activist Elke Marhöfer. By drawing on the concept of subjectivity beyond human individuals, and following philosopher and psychiatrist Félix Guattari, the text explores what could be sites of subjectivation rooted in film viewing. New modes of subjectivity are necessary to face major challenges of societies in the active resistance of the contemporary climate regime. Documentary films, as discussed in the text, are able to work far beyond the transmission of information and content but bear the potential to explore new ways of perception, experience and perspective creating the texture of possible ecological subjectivities. Not only nature and culture, but living and nonliving, human and environment need to be thought anew. Film can contribute to this ongoing reconceptualization of subjectivities as humans are searching for new ways of being with the world.
