In this scene from the movie "Aquaman" (2018) Atlantis sinks into the ocean. Unlike in all other disaster movies I know, the scene is pictured from a horizontal view line, not from a vertical one. The camera levels with the sea and thus we see both parts of the city:...
In the US-American 2014 movie Godzilla, the cityscape - in this case the coastal city San Francisco - experiences an interesting reversal of the culture-nature-dichotomy. The city here is not the place of culture and humanity, but the battle site of a fight between...
All images from the movie Global Meltdown from 2017 Canada; 21. Century; Christian; film
Probably not the first motion picture about a flooded city, but certainly the most influential one. In the 1927 movie the city is a completely fictious science fiction vesion of a city. It is thus more comparable to the new towns that are currently being planned to...
In this image from the disaster movie "2012" (200) the visual style is clearly remeniscent of Rennaissance and medieval paintings. This shot in particular reminds me of depictions of Golgatha. USA; 21. Century; Christian; Film; Art History;
In the movie "2012" - for reasons unclear to me - the White House is hit not only by a gigantic ocean wave but by a gigantic ocean wave carying a US-Navy aircraft carrier. The movie is from 2009. USA; 21. Century; Christian; Film; City: Washington
To see your city, you have to get out and look back. In many disaster movies, that's a car ride onto a bridge. In this scene from Geostorm, the look back is directed towards Hong Kong.USA; 21. Century; Christian; Movie; City: Hong Kong
