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Festivals, Books, Conferences, Exhibitions

On #Materiality

December 13, 2022/in Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Festival Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

The discussion of media often meanders between the way media objects are perceived as written texts, projected audiovisual messages, or recorded music on the one hand and material objects on the other. Materiality in the sense of physical matter is considered multi-sensory and in a direct relation to the perceiving body, traditionally – particularly in the arts – associated with processes of valorisation as in the term and concept of ‘aura’. But media studies have long established perspectives beyond simple notions of matter. Even light, sound, and energy have entered the discourse, and materiality can be traced in any and all understandings of media. This special section brings together some of the latest post-digital perspectives on the long-standing discussion of materiality in our ever-changing media landscapes. The contributions represent today’s broadness of the field and discourse, connecting media from their analogue pasts to their materially ambiguous futures.

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On greening film festivals: The environmental impact of film festivals and their future design and operation

December 13, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Festival Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

This roundtable brings together several film festival organisers and scholars to compare notes on the general impact of film festivals on the environment and to anticipate future directions for greening the sector. The event was hosted by The Creative School Catalyst, Toronto Metropolitan University. This is an edited transcript of the roundtable that took place on 13 January 2022 via Zoom.

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The post-pandemic festival: Identity, crisis, and curation at Sheffield DocFest 2022

December 12, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Festival Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

Sheffield DocFest, the UK’s largest documentary festival, returned this year for its first predominantly in-person edition following two years of pared back, online, and hybrid editions in 2020 and 2021. Returning in June 2022 as a six-day event comparable in size and scale to the 2019 festival, this year’s edition was framed in part as […]

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Embracing hybridity beyond the pandemic: The contrasting cases of PÖFF and SGIFF

December 12, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Festival Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

Embracing hybridity beyond the pandemic: The contrasting cases of PÖFF and SGIFF Film festivals have developed to be hybrid multi-layered, ever-expanding complex events that include diverse activities, engage multiple stakeholders, serve various purposes[1] and take place in multiple and diverse places.[2] The outburst of the pandemic at the beginning of 2020 caused an unpredictable crisis […]

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Documenta Fifteen and Berlin Biennale 12: A comparative review

December 9, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Exhibition Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

The thematic contents of the Berlin Biennale 12 and documenta 15, which both took place in Summer 2022, are certainly close, ‘focusing on themes of colonialism and decolonization … art as an opportunity to repair’[1] even though ‘documenta fifteen is practice and not theme based’,[2] its themes also follow decolonisation and demonstrating the continued presence […]

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Absence in Cinema

December 8, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Book Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

Justin Remes’ Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020) can be treated as the complement to the author’s earlier volume, also from Columbia University Press, Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (2015), in that he deconstructs the art of the ‘moving image’ to its fundamentals: i.e., films that […]

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How to Win at Photography: Image-Making and Play

December 8, 2022/in Exhibition Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

How does one win at photography? The Photographers’ Gallery in Soho, London is a very good place to ask this question, since it hosts one of the world’s most prestigious photography competitions: the Deutsche Börse Prize, whose past winners include Andreas Gursky, Rineke Dijsktra, Anna Gaskell, Juergen Teller, and Luc Delahaye. But it is precisely […]

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The Milk Of Dreams, or The Lukewarm Cup That Puts Commons to Sleep

December 8, 2022/in Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

In reviewing The Milk of Dreams, an enthusiastic Laura Raicovich summarises: The exhibition features mostly women and non-binary artists and engages deeply with notions of transformation and identity beyond the anthropocentric. Plants, animals, and machines are integral; the hybridity of these forms emphasizes inter-connectedness, solidarity networks, and alternate forms of knowledge production.[1] These few lines […]

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Mirror, mirror on the wall: AKS International Minorities Festival Pakistan 2021  

June 19, 2022/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

AKS International Minorities Festival is a film festival that seeks to showcase films and art projects, as well as to create a dialog around the representation of minorities, particularly immigrants, sexual minorities, trans people, and people of colour. Since 2014, the festival has been held annually both in Pakistan and Denmark, establishing itself as an […]

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RIDM 2021: Act local, think global

June 7, 2022/1 Comment/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

In 2021, the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) opted for a hybrid format for its 24th edition (10-21 November 2021), but the real novelty was the appointment of a new director and a new programming team. I investigate the selection of this new team through the lens of the territory where the festival […]

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Film festivals and market intelligence: From audience surveys to data analytics?    

June 7, 2022/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

Audience research has become an increasingly significant aspect of film festivals. The development of hybrid and online film festivals has enabled opportunities to generate more knowledge about the festival audience. That resembles broader developments in today’s culture and society, which relies on online data to take audience knowledge to a higher level. Indeed, industry observers […]

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Itineraries of walking and footwear on film

June 7, 2022/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in walking, as evidenced by an increasing number of publications, workshops (or sometimes ‘walkshops’), and other events dedicated to the topic. In this review, I focus on two recent volumes that can be positioned within this growing interest, but particularly contributing to the field […]

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The form and technology of videographic cinema

June 7, 2022/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

The surge of scholarly interest in the essay film has brought to light Theodor Adorno’s analogy in The Essay as Form that is as fruitful as it is intuitive: ‘The way the essay appropriates concepts can best be compared to the behavior of someone in a foreign country who is forced to speak its language […]

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Enfin le Cinéma! Arts, images et spectacles en France 1833-1907

June 7, 2022/1 Comment/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

With multidisciplinary collections dating from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th, the Musée d’Orsay has regularly been integrating cinema into its permanent exhibition. Films, as works of art, are increasingly shown in its exhibitions, and film programming is a regular feature of the museum’s activities. The last major exhibition […]

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Monument Palimpsest: Excavating the visions of the empire

June 7, 2022/1 Comment/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

A theme that characterises the artistic and public discussion animating Portugal’s current cultural life centres around the questioning of colonial legacies and the possibilities of a decolonial present, as a variety of presentations, exhibitions, documentaries, and publications across the academic and cultural field demonstrate.[1] Different university projects such as ‘MEMOIRS – Children of Empire and […]

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