@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:02000101, author = {スクーノヴァー, カール and SCHOONOVER, Karl and 大﨑, 晴美 and OSAKI, Harumi}, journal = {JunCture : 超域的日本文化研究}, month = {Mar}, note = {If waste is by definition the material that we do not want to see and that we abject from our vision, then what about forms of waste which are not visible? What about hazardous materials that photography fails to register or are imperceptible to human vision? A recent wave of ecological documentaries made in the United States and Europe appear to confer with this sense that waste is something to which we are blind. These documentaries forecast an impending environmental catastrophe of trash, a future global disaster with its roots in humanity’s current unwillingness to acknowledge waste as a problem. What unites this diverse group of films is how they view cinema as an instrument to confront its audiences with the physical facts of the world, seeing themselves as practising a vigilant visual discernment in order to raise environmental awareness. At the same time, they expose a mounting problem that is harder to see: toxic waste. This essay considers the formal means by which these films return garbage to our gaze and their struggle to capture polluting toxins. Through an analysis of how this toxic pollution is represented, expose a distinction elided in the contemporary eco docs: the distinction between rubbish that we refuse to be shown and a toxic reality that cannot be seen. Does the realist imperative to photographically reveal the world do more to obscure than to document humanity’s most menacing waste?, 大﨑晴美(訳)}, pages = {10--36}, title = {記録資料(ドキュメント)なきドキュメンタリー? : エコシネマと有害物質}, volume = {12}, year = {2021} }