Hidden Costs

NATURA 2040

Hantao Li | 2024 | United Kingdom | 11’

Shorts: Landscapes After Us & Klimaat Academie Rotterdam Debate
Friday 10 Oct 2025 | 17:00
LantarenVenster Zaal/Cinema 3Sold out

Director:
Hantao Li

Hantao Li is a director, visual artist and architectural designer based in London. He completed his master’s degree at ...

Speakers:
Carolien Schippers

Carolien Schippers is a Rotterdam-based architect and researcher. With her practice -C-A-S-, she operates in the fields of ar...

Speakers:
Martin Sobota

Martin is an architect and urban planner and co-founder of the award-winning international design and consultancy firm CITYFÖ...

Speakers:
Eric-Jan Pleijster

Eric-Jan Pleijster is a senior landscape architect and co-founder of Rotterdam based LOLA Landscape Architects. LOLA, short f...

Speakers:
Annemarie van Doorn

Annemarie van Doorn is the founder of the Social Value Foundation and previously worked in healthcare and as CEO/co-founder o...

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Moderator:
Dore Duivenbode

Shows of NATURA 2040

Shorts: Landscapes After Us & Klimaat Academie Rotterdam Debate
Friday 10 Oct 2025 | 17:00
LantarenVenster Zaal/Cinema 3Get TicketsSold out

About the film

Inspired by Edward O. Wilson’s Half Earth theory, Natura 2040 presents a speculative scenario: in Flevoland, industrial agriculture has been compressed into towering vertical structures, making way for half the polder to return to nature. This rewildered expanse is a hybrid landscape where machines monitor ecosystems and the evolving wilderness. Somewhere between a thought experiment and a provocation, the film invites viewers to reflect on our ambition to restore or shape ‘nature’: is that even possible on a land that is artificial to begin with?

film details

Dutch premiere

Director Hantao Li

Country United Kingdom

Year 2024

Runtime 11 Min.

Language English

Subtitles English

Type Short film, Animation, Student

film credits

Producer Hantao Li

With the cooperation of Zhifei Liang , Asta Minns , David Greene , Shuting Cui

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Director:
Hantao Li

Hantao Li is a director, visual artist and architectural designer based in London. He completed his master’s degree at ...

Speakers:
Carolien Schippers

Carolien Schippers is a Rotterdam-based architect and researcher. With her practice -C-A-S-, she operates in the fields of ar...

Speakers:
Martin Sobota

Martin is an architect and urban planner and co-founder of the award-winning international design and consultancy firm CITYFÖ...

Speakers:
Eric-Jan Pleijster

Eric-Jan Pleijster is a senior landscape architect and co-founder of Rotterdam based LOLA Landscape Architects. LOLA, short f...

Speakers:
Annemarie van Doorn

Annemarie van Doorn is the founder of the Social Value Foundation and previously worked in healthcare and as CEO/co-founder o...

1 2 3 4

Moderator:
Dore Duivenbode

As part of: Shorts: Landscapes After Us & Klimaat Academie Rotterdam Debate

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