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A special Inimkond event is taking place on Thursday, 23 November at 18:00 in room M-342.

We will host Christopher Thomson, a British filmmaker who is visiting Tallinn to screen his most recent film at the Black Nights Film Festival. "The New Wild: Life in the Abandoned Lands", Christopher's first feature length film, will be screened at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on 26 and 28 November and on 2 December. He will be visiting Tallinn University to offer a lecture on the themes and issues that motivated his production. 

'The New Wild'

As rural populations age and decline, new and surprising landscapes are appearing across Europe. Farmland lies abandoned, reclaimed by a self-willed natural world: trees are growing where once there were fields; wild animals roam free amongst the debris. Hundreds of thousands of hectares have already been abandoned and the process is only accelerating. Europe is changing fastest where nobody is left to witness it.

This demographic collapse is also a cultural collapse. Ways of life become stories, stories become history, and as the city grows the memory fades. Four in five people now live in urban centres and as such the 'countryside' is increasingly imagined from the city, just as nature is increasingly perceived as a concept rather than lived as a daily reality.

This seminar will look at what these new landscapes signify, and considers a possible symmetry between the 'new wild' of these abandoned spaces and the 'new wild' of our imagination. The seminar will be held in tandem with a screening of the film ‘The New Wild: Life in the Abandoned Lands’ at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on Sunday 26 November at 18:00 (Coca-Cola Plaza, Hall 3) in the 'Rebels With A Cause' section. This will be the North Europe Premiere of the film.

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