Luděk Čertík: Know your feast

Val Plumwood (left) with activist and street musician Sean Kenan (1987)

The year is 1985. Australian ecophilosopher Val Plumwood (1939–2008) sets out in her small canoe on a cruise down the Erre (East Alligator) River in Australia’s Kakadu National Park during the winter monsoon rains. Nothing bad seems to happen that day – after all, Plumwood is not on the river for the first time. However, during the cruise she is unexpectedly attacked by a crocodile…

Luděk Čertík: Three poems

Ludek Certik

Luděk Čertík (born 1989 in České Budějovice) studied film history and environmental studies; he works as a program director at the Prague Short Film Festival. He occasionally writes and lectures about film, mainly the work of American-born Terrence Malick, but also about artistic nature films, and also translates and writes poetry. He has published in the magazines Film a Doba, Sedmá generace, Universum. He is a member of…