Becca Voelcker
Lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and author of Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction (University of California Press, 2025); works at the intersection of visual culture, art history, and film with a focus on land, ecology, and documentary practices.
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Mar 21, 2026 • 1h 10min
Becca Voelcker, "Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction" (U California Press, 2025)
Becca Voelcker, Lecturer in Art at Goldsmiths and author of Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction, studies films that treat land as social and ecological responsibility. She traces global, often little-known nonfiction practices—from farmer-filmmakers to Indigenous documentaries. Short takes cover contested filmmaking positions, repair and rural rejuvenation, multilingual framings, and cinema as communal infrastructure.
Mar 21, 2026 • 1h 10min
Becca Voelcker, "Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction" (U California Press, 2025)
Becca Voelcker, a lecturer at Goldsmiths and author of Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction, explores films that treat land as a site of social and ecological responsibility. She discusses farmer- and gardener-filmmakers, archival discoveries across Japan, Mali, Colombia and the US, and how cinema functions as communal practice and repair in struggles over extraction and belonging.
