Sub-texts of cinematic genres – Are there the beginnings of an ‘environmental film genre’ in place?

After looking through the shots of a friend on facebook from a recent holiday I was forced to reconsider some of the general rules of photography and the notion that subject matter should be visible and not obstructed in any sense from the line of vision of the viewer. The shots I saw frequently have a subject matter which is partly obscured by trees or foliage and it crossed my mind that there may be an environmental theme within the reading of the photograph – that the environment would at some point be dominant over other elements of the main subject or can never be suppressed in terms of it's links to our survival and past. I did also wonder if there was likely to be a cinematic genre which is possibly linked to this possible approach to photography which may be exemplified by something like the Lawless Heart which had a narrative structure which may in some respects be possible to represent as intertwined plants or perhaps the branches coming off the central body or tree like structure.

This may sound like something that is destined for ‘pseuds-corner’ in Private Eye, but may form an element of what could be a more substantial cinematic movement which may get some support from the enviro-sensitive Hollywood film stars at present. It may be interesting to see what level of interest there was in the production of a series of films that weren’t superficially linked to the environment or ecology but had themes or subtexts relating to such matters. Pseuds corner here I come....