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Why (film) festivals? Virtual reality experiences at a crossroads

June 26, 2024/in Reviews, Festival Reviews, Spring 2024_#Open

It was in October 2015 at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) that I first encountered virtual reality (VR) as we know it today. Since then, I have attended every edition of the festival’s Explore section, anxious to discover what immersive and interactive experiences it had in store. Although I could never afford to attend any […]

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The two sides of VR utopias

June 26, 2024/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2024_#Open

At the center of Lazzaretto Vecchio, the immersive island of the Venice Film Festival, there is an open social space where directors, producers, press, volunteers, and festival visitors can gather together to grab quick drinks, meet old and new friends, and sit down for interviews and/or business talks. The community space offers a relief from […]

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Accessing film culture and community at the 2023 Melbourne International Film Festival

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Festival Reviews, Reviews

An established and beloved aspect of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is standing in ‘queues winding their way around city blocks in the depths of winter’, meeting like-minded cinephiles.[1] This is not something I can participate in. My disability makes it difficult to stand for long periods of time. For many years, MIFF did […]

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Accessing film culture and community at the 2023 Melbourne International Film Festival

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Festival Reviews, Reviews

An established and beloved aspect of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is standing in ‘queues winding their way around city blocks in the depths of winter’, meeting like-minded cinephiles.[1] This is not something I can participate in. My disability makes it difficult to stand for long periods of time. For many years, MIFF did […]

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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

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

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

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

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

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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Publication  – ‘Images Festival Research Forum’

October 4, 2021/in News

Calls to decentre structures of cultural and political power have grown increasingly louder in the pandemic era. The 2021 edition of the Images Festival Research Forum invited different collectives and collective-like bodies of individuals – including Forensic Architecture, the Kinomatics Project and the inaugural curatorial team for the Toronto Biennial of Art – to explore […]

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Porn film festivals during pandemic times: San Francisco PornFilmFestival and UNCENSORED in lockdown

June 8, 2021/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2021_#Solidarity

In 2020, a lot of film festivals were cancelled or postponed to 2021. Others were organised in person (following the security measures imposed in each country regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, reducing the number of people in a closed space). Most festivals opted for online or hybrid options. Some festivals chose to use online platforms, turning […]

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One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival: Limits of (de)centralised management during the pandemic

June 8, 2021/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2021_#Solidarity

The One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (One World), which takes place in March, opens the Czech festival season. Since its inception in 1999, initiated by a human rights campaigner Igor Blaževič, this has become a reputable event and one of the major European human rights film festivals. In terms of the total number […]

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Story within a story: Vues d’Afrique in the time of COVID-19

December 6, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Festival Reviews, Reviews

Le Festival international de cinéma Vues d’Afrique is North America’s largest and longest-running African film festival. Established in Montreal in 1984, it has been held annually ever since. Its 36th edition was set to open on 17 April and run until 26 April, when, just a few weeks before the opening, festival organisers had to […]

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Beyond a shadow of a doubt: For the Elche International Independent Film Festival dying is not an option

December 6, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Festival Reviews, Reviews

Since March 2020 Covid-19 has led to a wave of cancellations in the event industry.[1] The Mobile World Congress of Barcelona, the world tourism exhibitions in Berlin and Shanghai, and the International Trade Fair for Wire and Cable in Dusseldorf, for example, were cancelled. The impact on tourism worldwide is far-reaching and has been a […]

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The International Labour Film Festival in Turkey

December 6, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Festival Reviews, Reviews

In Turkey Covid-19 poses a particularly significant threat to the fragile existence of alternative exhibition networks, such as arthouse cinemas, film collectives, and small-size film festivals. The future of film exhibition and production has been among the hot topics in the wake of the lockdown.[1] The role of film festivals in the public sphere, as […]

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Come together? Curating communal viewing experiences for hybrid and online film festivals

December 6, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Festival Reviews, Reviews

In the wake of Covid-19, watch parties and watch-alongs have become increasingly popular forms of audience engagement, providing communal viewing experiences. As singular events or film series they have made use of streaming platforms such as Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitter, or Instagram. For film festivals, which are currently facing the challenge to go hybrid […]

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SXSW, Amazon, and the difficulty of staging an exclusive event online

December 6, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Festival Reviews, Reviews

When a major festival such as South by Southwest (SXSW) is postponed, cancelled, or otherwise altered, the effects are widespread and impact upon those connected with the event in various ways. Given the speed at which the COVID-19 pandemic spread in early March 2020, and how close that was to the planned dates for SXSW, […]

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