From 9-15 September 2020, the tenth edition of the Open City Documentary Festival London will celebrate the art of non-fiction and provide a platform for both young and established filmmakers to challenge the idea of documentary in all its forms. Taking place online this year, the programme combines film screenings, industry events, audio documentaries as […]
William Kentridge: Thick Time, curated by Iwona Blazwick at Whitechapel Gallery (London), is a travelling survey exhibition by a major South African artist that brings together six large-scale multimedia installations produced between 2003 and 2016.[1] Images and sounds propel me visually, sonically, and spatially across time and continents. I walk through the exhibition for the […]
Over the last two decades a resurgence of interest in the cinematic has marked certain areas of the contemporary art world in what has come to be known as its ‘cinematic turn’.[1] Art institutions continue to reflect a growing interest in the moving image in its many forms, whether through the presence of moving image […]
Jacques Rancière will deliver a pair of presentations in London on 30 and 31 January 2015 at King’s College and Birkbeck. These presentations will concern his newest publication in English, The Intervals of Cinema (Verso, 2014). This weekend of events also includes a screening of Robert Bresson’s Mouchette (1967). Visit this link for more details. […]
LGBTQ film festivals are engaged in a precarious dance. They cannot live without the identity categories that designate both their mission and their audience and yet they cannot live easily with these identities, which are continually expanded, revised, and contested. The growth of public discourse around previously marginalised identities (including but not limited to lesbian, […]
NECSUS managing editor Greg de Cuir, Jr curated the program Avant-Noir which will be presented at the ICA Artists’ Film Biennial in London on 5 July 2014. Avant-Noir surveys the work of contemporary film and video artists who are engaged with Africa and the African Diaspora. Featured artists include Kevin Jerome Everson, Christopher Harris, Akosua […]
The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) has posted their 2014 conference program online. The BAFTSS 2014 conference will take place from 24-26 April 2014 at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in London. NECSUS editorial board member Dorota Ostrowska will introduce the conference as the representative of the hosting institution Birkbeck […]
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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