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Welcome to the Nature of Cities Festival 2024! A gathering to get inspired, to learn, to present, collaborate, or to meet hundreds of new best friends and urban nature co-conspirators. The Berlin segment is an all-inclusive multi-day experience featuring field-trips, in person talks, workshops, art interventions, a film festival, Farm-to-Table dinners, various opportunities for socializing, and much more. All of it takes place at the Atelier Gardens venue, and various other locations around Berlin.

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Thursday, June 6 • 05:00 - 06:30
Short Film Program 5 – Radical Connections

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Join us for Short Film Program 5 – Radical Connections. Today the Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Cultures at TNOC presents an array of captivating short films in where each narrative relates itself to the profound intersections of identity, belonging, and community amidst diverse landscapes and cultural ways of being.

La forêt noire
by Anna Jane McIntyre and Benoit Z. Leroux / 7 minutes
An introspective journey through the immersive traveling forest installation, delving into the experiences and memories of negotiation, belonging, and identity in a new land, as explored by the artist, Anna Jane McIntyre.

Solidarity in Nature: Reclaiming Connection to the Land through Hip-Hop 
produced by Creative Capitol LLC, directed by Planet Chambo and filmed by Isaiah Rodriguez / 2 minutes
Planet Chambo is an artist collective in Chicago. They connect artists to nature and showcase greenspaces through hip-hop and art. The short film showcases how their art has led them to build a community of artists and people ready to reclaim their connection to the land.

Growing A Green Heart
by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo / 18 minutes
Join Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo's community gathering-walk-workshop at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, where participants develop deep connections with the surrounding ecosystem through experiential exercises, awakening a personal bond with nature.

Still Suite
by Brad Muirhead / 22 minutes
A etherial blend of original music and dance at the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festiva offers a tribute to the last remaining segment of reclaimed natural salmon creek Vancouver. Performed by “Treesong” with handmade wooden instruments, the music celebrates the harmony between art, nature, and community.

The Fruit of the Oak
by Alejandro Jiménez / 3 minutes
A short film paying tribute to Frederic Back's film "The Man Who Planted Trees" (1987). In this fictional tale, Louis, once a young boy and now an adult, leads us through the memory of his childhood—a timeless moment, following in the footsteps of a legend. This narrative immerses us in a profound journey through the legacy of a forest, where echoes of the past resonate with the promise of the future.
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Don't miss this lineup of films that challenge conventional thinking and inspire conversations on Radical Connections!
Artists
avatar for Carmen Bouyer

Carmen Bouyer

Arts Co-Director, The Nature of Cities
Hello, I am an artist based in Paris and art curator at The Nature of Cities. I am passionate by all the cultural ways that strengthen our relationships with each other as humans across variety of cultures and practices, as well as with wide diversity of non-human life forms, especially... Read More →
avatar for City as Living Laboratory

City as Living Laboratory

Artist, City as Living Laboratory
avatar for Patrick Lydon

Patrick Lydon

Arts Co-Director, The Nature of Cities
An ecological artist and urbanist based in Korea, Patrick helps re-discover our role as ecological beings through story, film, illustration, and community-centered landscape interventions. Together with Suhee Kang, he founded the creative urban ecology studio called City as Natu... Read More →
avatar for Anna Jane McIntyre

Anna Jane McIntyre

Artist & Educator, The Black Studies Podcast
I am a Black visual artist with a practice combining drawing, installation, printmaking, costume, storytelling, performance and micro-activism.  My projects explore and celebrate the ways in which people decipher experience, belonging, create and maintain culture and senses of self... Read More →
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Brad Muirhead

artist, independant
I am a freelance musician, composer / arranger, recording artist, interdisciplinary collaboration artist / project instigator, music educator, arts administrator, community music facilitator and music copyist. My career has been widely varied in content and direction with lots of... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2024 05:00 - 06:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin
  Arts & Film Festival
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