Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Australian climate change communicators -- scientists, novelists, screenwriters -- see cli-fi TV dramas and movies as ways of facing global warming issues with emotional heft

Australian climate change communicators -- scientists, novelists, screenwriters -- see cli-fi TV dramas and movies as ways of facing global warming issues with emotional heft


http://www.bunburymail.com.au/story/4858318/cli-fi-forum-sees-tv-drama-as-one-solution-to-global-warming/?cs=36




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    DANIELBLOOM said...

    For marine ecologist Adriana Verges, the problem of climate change is so urgent that scientists need clever new strategies to draw more attention to it.

    And one of them is developing TV dramas that focus on not sci-fi but cli-fi - climate fiction.

    Dr Verges, who lectures at the University of NSW, came up with the idea of teaming scientists with leading screenwriters for a forum that is being held at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

    After briefings from specialists in climate science, geo-engineering, psychology, human health, renewable energy, politics and history, screenwriters will crunch ideas for new shows in a forum that also involves ABC TV, production company Jungle, Screen Australia and Create NSW.

    "For ages scientists have been using our graphs and our data and our facts to try to communicate our science but it's been demonstrated that this doesn't really work very well," Dr Verges says. "It very rarely influences people's opinions and hardly ever motivates action.

    "Storytelling, in contrast, is emerging as a very clear way to communicate environmental issues."

    Screenwriters have regularly tackled environmental themes over the years.

    Hollywood had a hit with a cli-fi disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow. Then an even bigger hit with Avatar, which was set in a future when humans have to mine resources on other planets.

    Happy Feet won an Oscar with a story that dealt with environmental damage in Antarctica.

    After bringing awareness of global warming into the mainstream with the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore has followed up this month with An Inconvenient Sequel.

    But the clif-fi forum, "Climate Change And Big Ideas For The Small Screen", is aimed at reaching new audiences on television.

    Dr Verges says the critically acclaimed British anthology series Black Mirror is an example of what is possible.

    "Black Mirror takes technology to the nth degree and uses fiction to explore the unanticipated consequences of new technologies," she says.

    "It's really good quality drama but afterwards you're left thinking about your own relationship with technology, what's already happening and what might happen in the future.

    "I thought this was the perfect framework for communicating climate science so that we can imagine ourselves in the future and how our everyday lives will be impacted by changes that are already happening."

    August 15, 2017 at 9:28 PM

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