York University’s Sound and Moving Image Library is a very fun and useful place to visit. Although we had a virtual tour, I actually visited the library when it was open 2 years ago. It was a place I would regularly go to study and relax. The library has a massive collection of films which students are able to rent. Although I never rented one due to not having a CD player, I always found myself browsing the shelves of endless films. There were enough films in one small area to satisfy my needs for an entire lifetime, let alone what their entire collection could do.
One thing that I discovered more recently though was the Criterion service provided by York and the Sound and Moving Image Library. This is a website that allows you to stream movies completely free of charge as long as you are a York student. It is similar to Netflix and has a vast collection of films to watch. Since discovering Criterion, I have used it many times. For example, I love Harry Potter but I never watched the films because couldn’t find a streaming service I have access to that has it available. That was until I remembered about Criterion, which happened to have all 8 films.
I have actually used Criterion for this course’s film festival. I was looking at films available on the website and came across Interstellar. Interstellar touches on a few general ecology-related themes, but it also touches on some of the applied plant ecology themes mentioned at the beginning of the course, which is why I thought it would be a great nomination.
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 