The movie by Robert Rodriguez from 2007 is definitely not a climate narrative. Rather "Planet Terror", a true retro flick, picks up a theme popular in the 1970s: anihilation through some mysterious chemical experiment gone havoc. Still I found the closing images...
Continental Shelf Station was an attempt at creating an environment in which people could live and work on the sea floor. Precontinent has been used to describe the set of projects to build an underwater "village" carried out by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his team in...
The british movie "Captain Nemo and the underwater city" by James Hill picks up the themes and main character Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's famous novel and the sucessfull 1954 Disney movie on the same material. While the earlier US-movie develops further the theme...
Like no other movie Roland Emmerich's blockbuster made extensive use of the iconology of cities, and most of all of the most iconic of them all: New York! In a very clever way, the advertisment company also adopted this strategy to various localities, asking the local...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/328744654?h=dbce188316 Athens based artist collective Latent Community produced this wonderful film about the story of Kallio in Fokida, Greece, a village that was expropriated in 1969 and was covered in 1981 by the waters of the...
My favorite idea from the DC Aquaman movie (2018) is merely a small detail. When the Aquarians start to fight back against us, the people above sea level, one of their first maneuvers is throwing the human garbage back on land. That includes of course submarines. Here...
In the final episode of the Sci Fi series "Stargate Atlantis" the city vessel Atlantis eventually lands in the San Francisco bay. Atlantis here is a city that can both fly in outerspace and float on water. This is the city plan according to one Stargate Wiki:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuM3DjvYf0 Thanks to Stephan Wagner for the reminder. USA; 20. Century; Christian; film; City: New York
... with wall to protect the city from the creatures of the deep in the movie Pacific Rim (2013) and now, or rather, in reality... USA, China; 21. Century; Christian; Movie; City: Hong Kong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoGDJep8uo USA; 20. Century; Christian; Movie; City: Rome
