2019 Japanese anime movie "Children of the Sea" (original title: 海獣の子供, which translates roughly as "Children of Sea Monsters") is set in a fictitious island in the Okinawa region of Japan. The movie directed by Ayumu Watanabe puts a lot of effort into creating the...
In the post-apocalyptic action movie "Waterworld" from 1995, all human settlements have drowned as global warming has melted the ice caps. At the time in 1995, "Waterworld" was the most expensive movie ever made and it was not a huge success. Maybe the prospect of a...
Image of the swimming settlement in the movie "Waterworld" from 1995. The settlement is called "Atoll" in the movie but in fact it is a human made swimming construction. There is no natural land left known to the population of waterworld. This sequence from the movie...
An image from the movie "The Wave" from 2015. In "Being Ecological" Tim Morton wonders about the prevalent mode of climate writing, which he calls "information dump", "dumping massive platefuls of facts on to us" over and over again. Morton wonders, why we do that and...
Just 31 years lie between two disasters of the same nature along the shores of a lake in Western Norway destroying twice the two lakeside villages. Lake Lovatnet is considered one of the most beautiful lakes in Norway. In the first decade of the 1900s and again in the...
This is an image from the famous sinking scene from the movie "Erik the Viking" from 1989. the movie plot is built on the medieval saga of the explorer Erik the Red. In one part of the saga Erik and his comrades arrive at the mystical island Hy-Brasil (or simply...
This movie is certainly not of the greatest to have come out of Hollywood. But made in 1961 it is one of the first movies about Atlantis and has been influential in popularizing the myth in the 20. Century. Made with a lot of stock footage from the movie company MGM,...
As this documentary from German TV from 2022 clearly shows, designing floating cities is one thing, wanting to live there is quite another. I guess instinctively we all prefer "stability over floating flexibility", as director Kristin Siebert says, land over sea,...
The movie "Moonfall" from 2022 might be the worst movie ever done by Roland Emmerich, the movie director a Canadian journal aptly described as a "disaster-porn artist". Emmerich has filmed - or rather digitally created - a whole collection of gigantic flood waves over...
The action movie Meg was released in 2018 and did surprisingly well at the box offices, considering that the shark-vs-man plot seems so outdated and overdone. Apparently it was two decades in the making and it feels a bit like it too watching it. Nevertheless, there...
