Cinema of Contamination | Fall 2026

Cinema of Contamination stages contact, confrontations, and entanglements with enigmatic toxins and landscapes. Spanning suburban California, the Andean mountain range, a forbidden zone, and a poisonous forest, the series examines how to make meaning within ecological collapse and in the aftermath of dictatorship and war.

Curated by Mays Smithwick, Ph.D. student in American Studies and Religious Studies