# Third Cinema and Socio-political Cinema [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Cinema) ( 1960s–present ) ## Description Third Cinema and socio-political cinema, including anticolonial filmmaking movements and their extension into Anthropocene-era political cinema — film understood as a tool of decolonization and social critique rather than entertainment or auteurist expression, extended into a contemporary Indigenous context by filmmakers such as [[Adam Khalil]]. ## Key Tags #third-cinema #decolonial #political-cinema ## Essential Works - Koutsourakis, Angelos. "Visualizing the Anthropocene Dialectically: Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens' Eco-Crisis Trilogy." *Film-Philosophy* 21, no. 3 (2017): 299–325. - Reads Brosens and Woodworth's "Eco-Crisis Trilogy" (including [[Altiplano]]) through a Third Cinema/Anthropocene lens - Iordanova, Dina. *Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media*. British Film Institute, 2001. - Socio-political cinema of the Balkans and its relation to conflict and nationalism ## Details ### Key Theorists - [[Laura U. Marks]] - *Hanan al-Cinema* reads experimental, essayistic, and documentary cinema from and about the Arab world through affect and political history ### Exemplary Practitioners - Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth - directors of the "Eco-Crisis Trilogy," including *Altiplano* (2009), read by Koutsourakis as Anthropocene-era Third Cinema - [[Adam Khalil]] - Ojibway filmmaker extending decolonial, anticolonial cinema into a contemporary Indigenous context, with [[Zack Khalil]] and as part of New Red Order ### Related Concepts - [[Philosophy]] - shares Koutsourakis's Anthropocene/Third Cinema scholarship - [[Sociology and Politics]] - shares decolonial theory and political critique ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Associated Movements or Institutions - Third Cinema - 1960s–70s Latin American film movement (Solanas, Getino, Rocha) opposing "First Cinema" (Hollywood) and "Second Cinema" (auteur cinema) with militant, anticolonial filmmaking ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Brosens, Peter, Olivier Gourmet, Magaly Solier, et al., dirs. *Altiplano*. New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts, 1990-Present. First Run Features, 2009. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Braester, Yomi. *Witness against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China*. Stanford University Press, 2003. Iordanova, Dina. *Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media*. British Film Institute, 2001. Koutsourakis, Angelos. "Visualizing the Anthropocene Dialectically: Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens' Eco-Crisis Trilogy." *Film-Philosophy* (Edinburgh) 21, no. 3 (2017): 299–325. [https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2017.0053](https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2017.0053).