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The film is the museum: Ken Jacobs, Gus Van Sant, Mark Lewis, and Pierre Perrault

May 27, 2019/in Features, Spring 2019_#Emotions

by Barbara Le Maître, translated from the French by Claire Labarbe[1] In the last twenty years, the question of the relationship between cinema and the museum has been raised in multiple theoretical and practical contexts, giving rise to a number of discussions about the exhibition of moving images, the use of the medium of film […]

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The exact shape of the world? Media and mapping

January 28, 2019/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping

by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta ‘There’s something to knowing the exact shape of the world and one’s place in it – don’t you agree?’ – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006) Among the different critical turns that have been reshaping recent media scholarship, the emphasis on space and spatiality […]

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Evidentiary aesthetics: Landscapes of violence at RIDM 2017

November 28, 2018/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping, Festival Reviews, Reviews

‘Space … is a product of relations-between, relations which are necessarily embedded material practices which have to be carried out.’ – Doreen Massey[1] Founded in 1998 by a group of Québécois documentary filmmakers, the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) has become one of Canada’s most established documentary film festivals. Since its inception, the […]

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A brief study of film festivals in Mexico: Consumption and historical evolution 2010-2016

November 23, 2018/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping, Festival Reviews, Reviews

Mexico has experienced several cycles of growth or decline in film production and consumption, and like many other countries its own cinematography has been left out of the North American corpus that dominates the exhibition circuits. The mastery of American cinematography, which largely responds to canons originating with the Hollywood industry, imposes guidelines for aesthetic […]

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The Dutch film festival landscape: A walk-through

November 23, 2018/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping, Festival Reviews, Reviews

Introduction Festivals are nowadays a cultural, social, and economic force to be reckoned with. This study will offer an overview of the Dutch festival landscape, which has been lacking. There are commercial initiatives that target only a portion of the festival sector, and there are specific branch organisations or cultural funds that only cover the […]

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Screen Studies Conference 2019

October 30, 2018/in News

The 29th International Screen Studies Conference, taking place at the University of Glasgow on 28-30 June 2019, welcomes proposals for papers, panels, and audiovisual essays. The conference is organised by Screen editors Alison Butler and Alastair Phillips. Confirmed keynote speakers are David Campany (University of Westminster), Laura Marcus (University of Oxford), and Haidee Wasson (Concordia […]

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The Flaherty names Jon-Sesrie Goff as new Executive Director

September 5, 2018/in News

The Board of Trustees of The Flaherty is pleased to announce that Jon-Sesrie Goff will become Executive Director effective 10 September 2018. Goff, who previously served as Museum Specialist in Film at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, brings considerable talent, deep knowledge of art and film, administrative experience, and leadership ability […]

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Alternative Film/Video Research Forum 2018, International Kino Club Histories

August 2, 2018/in News

Alternative Film/Video, 12-16 December 2018, Belgrade On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Academic Kino Club, founded in Belgrade (then Socialist Yugoslavia, now Republic of Serbia) in 1958, the Alternative Film/Video Research Forum 2018 will be dedicated to the international histories of kino clubs in Europe and beyond. There is a particular postwar history […]

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20 Years of Ícaro spreading its wings: Ícaro International Film Festival

July 10, 2018/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2018_#Resolution

The global imaginary of Central America, encompassing Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama,[1] often relates to the subcontinent’s turbulent history and strategic geopolitical positioning. From succumbing to European imperial forces in the 15th century to the end of the Cold War and its aftermath, the southernmost isthmus of North America that connects […]

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We need to talk about Indian Panorama: A report from the International Film Festival of India 2017

July 10, 2018/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2018_#Resolution

The enduring image from the 48th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), held from 20 to 28 November 2017, is of the actor Kannan Nayar angry, and waiting impatiently, outside the Inox multiplex complex in Panjim, Goa. He could be seen agitatedly talking to a group of people, to the media, and […]

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We have never been (post)modern: Photography’s late encounters with film

July 10, 2018/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2018_#Resolution

The discussions on the relationship between photography and film have for a long time been centred on stillness and duration. The two oldest of the so-called new media seemed settled in binary oppositions, as it was either the photograph’s death portrait or the motion picture’s vital progression. Ice or fire, as Peter Wollen aptly proclaimed.[1] […]

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Film-Philosophy 2018

June 4, 2018/in News

Film-Philosophy 2018 will be held at University of Gothenburg (Sweden), from 3 to 5 July. The conference is associated with the journal Film-Philosophy. Confirmed keynote speakers for the conference are Emma Wilson (University of Cambridge), Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (University of California at Davis), Eugenie Brinkema (MIT), Catherine Wheatley (King’s College London), and filmmakers Maja Borg (Sweden) […]

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Screen Studies Conference 2018

May 7, 2018/in News

The 28th international Screen Studies Conference will take place at the University of Glasgow from 29 June until 1 July 2018. The conference is programmed by Screen editors Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street. The keynote speakers are Erica Carter (King’s College London), Amelie Hastie (Amherst College), and Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State University). As there is […]

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A new era of Maghrebi-French cinema: Two perspectives

December 7, 2017/in Autumn 2017_#Dress, Book Reviews, Reviews

From Tunis to Casablanca and further afield in the diaspora, Maghrebi-French filmmakers have articulated the historical transformations of their societies, including their changing place in the world. All the major events and historical moments that have shaped the Maghreb have been put on camera, with original and critical portrayals detailing the social, political, and economic […]

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Topophilic tendencies at Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival

December 6, 2017/in Autumn 2017_#Dress, Festival Reviews, Reviews

Described variously in the media over the years as ‘one of the most idiosyncratic film events in the UK’[1] and ‘willfully eclectic’,[2] the eleventh edition of Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival (Flatpack)[3] took place 4-9 April 2017.[4] Situated in the UK’s second city, Flatpack[5] has come to embody a specific representation of its home city that […]

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