by Karl Schoonover In his Theory of Film, Siegfried Kracauer tasks the medium of cinema with a particularly modernist realism, one that recovers the significance of things cast aside and overlooked views. For him, the medium fulfills its potential when it produces images that defamiliarise the familiar or expose what is hidden right in front […]
The Spring 2014 issue of NECSUS will feature a special section dedicated to the broad concept of ‘Traces’. On a meta level the ‘trace’ can be related to the idea of the (photographic) image as an index of an independently existing reality. The digital seems to have changed this footprinting-idea of the relation between image […]
by Barbara Creed There must be times when she can no longer stand this state, her condition. It’s the realm of ‘doing nothing’. She spends her life doing nothing. Nicholas Philibert’s documentary Nenette (2010) sets out to problematise the human/animal boundary and as such it poses several important questions for contemporary film theory. In particular […]
The preliminary program for Visible Evidence XX has been released. 2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the international documentary studies conference Visible Evidence, which will be held from 15-18 August in Stockholm (Sweden). The program includes panels, screenings, workshops, a special reception at Stockholm City Hall, and a closing night party in celebration of the […]
The 5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013) will take place from 27-29 June 2013 at the Institute of African Studies-University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal. In addition to the thematic panels and keynote speeches the conference will host a documentary film festival. The films submitted to the event must portray issues […]
The website promoting the international documentary studies conference Visible Evidence XX is now online with information about this year’s event. The 2013 gathering of Visible Evidence, celebrating its 20th anniversary, will convene 15-18 August in Stockholm where it will be hosted by the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, and organised in collaboration with The […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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