Publication_Information
Film screening of Crude (2018) by Andrew Denton
October 01, 2025 - October 01, 2025
As part of A Topographical Summit, Andrew Denton will present Crude (2018): an essayist film that attempts to see and hear some of the elusive signs of anthropogenic climate change to make what is invisible, visible, to evoke contemplations on the subject of ecological crisis. The film seeks to evoke a space of reflection, uneasiness, and sadness by engaging with the residual and stratified signs of our collective impact on our environment. Image credit: film still from Crude, Andrew Denton, NZ/CAN, 2018, 65:02 min.
About the Artist
Andrew Denton’s research engages with climate and geological change through cinematic affective devices, video and photographic media. His practice challenges the ‘cinematic’ indexically (through aesthetic devices which distort and recalibrate viewers’ experience of time and space); harnessing affective approaches to cinematic making and thinking.
These approaches manifest in works invested in the ecological (land, air, ocean), and the body (dance). The dance works are collaborative and experiment with technology and performance – specifically dance integrated with live cinema, motion capture and VR (360 cinema) technology.
Alongside his practice-based research, he is committed to the development of postgraduate curricula, applying an approach to learning and teaching that seeks to enable meaningful research practices that are agile, responsive and collaborative. He has presented and published papers and chapters on creative-based pedagogical approaches, and project-based curriculum design, locally and internationally. Denton is the inaugural director of the School for the Arts at the University of Saskatchewan.
