Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction

Becca Voelcker's Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction traces nonfiction filmmaking practices from the late 1960s onward that represent land as an ecological, political, and aesthetic site.

Drawing on archives across regions — including Japan, Mali, Navajo Nation, Colombia, Wales, and the U.S.

— she identifies a genre she calls "land cinema," showing how filmmakers documented dispossession, repair, and alternatives to extractive capitalism.

Voelcker situates these practices within broader movements like Third Cinema and environmental and anti-colonial solidarities, and reads them reparatively to inform contemporary climate-justice strategies.

The book emphasizes participatory, collective filmmaking and cinema as social infrastructure, examining long-term projects of land repair, memory, and intergenerational relations.