Eurozine has reprinted an essay on the benefits and downfalls of open access (particularly in relation to developing nations), written by Jorge L. Contreras. The Eurozine reprint is a condensed version of the full essay, which was published by St Antony’s International Review and can be found here. Contreras elaborates on the various models of […]
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, we are organizing the first Alternative Film/Video Research Forum. This two-day event (6-7 December 2012) running concurrently with the festival (5-9 December 2012) will gather a group of researchers and writers who are concerned with alternative/experimental/avant-garde/underground works of film, video, and new media, for […]
The premiere issue of Frames is bursting at the seams with content. This open access e-journal is edited by the doctoral candidates in the Department of Film Studies at University of St Andrews. The premiere issue features Catherine Grant (of Film Studies For Free fame) as guest editor and the special theme is the digital […]
The current issue of Global Media Journal, an open access academic publication, features a special focus by the title ‘Covering the Arab Spring’. The content of this special focus connects very well with the essay on the Twitter revolution in Tunisia by Thomas Poell and Kaouthar Darmoni, published in the current issue of NECSUS.
Here is a unique avant-garde performance. The GrandFlower Ceremony, taking place on 8 July at Millenium Film Workshop in Manhattan. A ritual honoring the detritus of analogue film production. The vehicle of sacrifice is a translucent plexiglass structure modeled after the continuous processing machines from which these 16mm films were born, and as the ceremony progresses […]
The NECSUS editorial board after an editorial meeting in the Saldanha section of Lisboa. Pictured from left to right are Malte Hagener, Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters, Francesco Pitassio, Dorota Ostrowska, and Annie van den Oever (behind the camera is Greg de Cuir, Jr.).
The hard-working Catherine Grant shines a light on the premiere issue of NECSUS in her brilliant blog Film Studies For Free. We are proud to be a part of her permanent listing of online and open access film and media studies journals.
The NECSUS website will have an official launch on 21 June at the NECS 2012 conference in Portugal, hosted by New University of Lisbon and University of Coimbra. A reception at 19.30h in the New University of Lisbon Rectory will be sponsored by Amsterdam University Press. We hope to see you there!
A working conference at Utrecht University looking at current citizen science developments through the lens of play. We will explore how the playful potential of digital media and cultures strengthen citizen’s scientific engagement and knowledge about their environment; and how the relationship between professional and laymen knowledge production is shifting through the ludic use of […]
Trash, a post-graduate conference at the University of Sussex, has been announced. The conference takes place on 14 September 2012, along with an evening of art, film, and music on 13 September 2012. Also on the subject of decay and degradation, NECSUS will publish a special issue on ‘Waste’ in Autumn 2013, Guest Editors: Wanda […]
Studies in Eastern European Cinema Editors: Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire) and Michael Goddard (Salford University) Call for papers Special Issue: Dušan Makavejev Guest Editor: Greg de Cuir, Jr. (Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade) Could it be that only recently we finally saw the first book-length study of the films of Dušan Makavejev? Surely […]
This clip from the conclusion to The Virgin Suicides will get you ready for Anna Backman Rogers’ essay on ephemeral bodies and threshold creatures in the premiere issue of NECSUS, under the special thematic section ‘crisis’. For more on the ‘gaps that remain’, see Jacques Rancière’s introductory essay in the same issue.
Film Studies for Free links to a master class in film criticism hosted by Jacques Rancière as well as a couple of related links to his writing. ‘For me, film criticism is not a way of explaining or classifying things, it’s a way of prolonging them, making them resonate differently’ – Jacques Rancière This prolongation […]
On the occasion of the publishing of the new anthology Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations (Amsterdam University Press, 2012) edited by Sarah Keller and Jason N. Paul, MUBI is reprinting an essay by Nicole Brenez called ‘Ultra-Modern: Jean Epstein, or Cinema “Serving the Forces of Transgression and Revolt”‘. In one section of the […]
The online publication Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image published an interview with Jacques Rancière on the subject of his book Les écarts du cinéma (Paris: La Fabrique editions, 2011). This is a good companion piece to our translation of the book’s prologue ‘The Gaps of Cinema’.
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Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Malte Hagener
Philipps-University Marburg
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Francesco Pitassio
University of Udine
Belén Vidal
King’s College London