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Ubiquitous Cinema - Education, Mobility, and Storytelling in the Digital Age--Call for Papers
Beijing, Beijing Film Academy, April 27-29, 2017
Beijing Film Academy, China Film Education Research Centre, in cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), University of Amsterdam
Convenors: Liu Jun, Jeroen de Kloet, Xu Hang, Rowan Parry
Keynote speakers:
Chris Berry (King’s College London, co-author of China on Screen: Cinema and Nation, editor of Chinese Films in Focus, and co-editor of Public Space, Media Space and Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia)
Yomi Braester (University of Washington, author of Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract and Witness against History: Literature, Film and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China)
Song Hwee Lim (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, author of Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness and Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas)
Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam, author of The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Filmphilosophy of Digital Screen Culture and The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory)
Cameras and screens have become ubiquitous in everyday life. This provokes questions about the ways we produce, perceive, distribute, but also teach and study cinema today. For this conference, we aim to discuss three entangled phenomena to probe into the ubiquity of screen cultures in the digital age: education, mobility, and storytelling.
First, education. Phones are used to shoot anything from cat videos to entire feature films, which we share and watch on Vimeo or Tudou. Increasingly, documentaries and short movies are made by what used to be called “amateurs.” What role does formal film education have then, when shooting and editing have become seemingly easy? How to educate the young in a time in which the visual and the digital reign? What are the problematics, if not dangers, of becoming visible (cf. Rey Chow)?
Second, mobility. Digitization allows for almost immediate mobility of images, but in its slipstream are also technologies, money and ideas (cf. Appadurai). Where do we stand twenty years after the rise of transnational cinema studies? How do film festivals facilitate the global circulation of film? When all that seemed solid becomes unstable and is on the move, what happens not only to scholarship, but also to our lived experiences of cinema? And how does it provoke a desire to stay put and be slow?
Third, storytelling. How has increased mobility provoked cross-fertilization amongst forms, genres, national cinemas, and their storytelling conventions? How is the Internet used as a platform to experiment with form, content and technology to tell the stories of our digital age? How does the emergence of virtual and augmented realities affect the ways in which films are made and perceived? How do new visual regimes emerge and alter the language of cinema? What are the theoretical and political implications of these transformations, and do they provoke a redistribution of the sensible (cf. Rancière)? How is the movement-image, with its focus on plot, and the time-image, with its focus on point of view, supplemented by the neuro-image, in which we experience the mental landscapes of characters (cf. Deleuze and Pisters)?
This conference brings together scholars from various disciplines to reflect on these questions related to film education, mobility, and cinematic storytelling in the digital age. We invite both paper and panel submissions that engage with (one of) the themes of this conference through specific case studies.
Possible topics among the three leading themes include (but are not limited to):
Education
Children and cinema
The role of film schools and formal education
Changing curricula in times of globalisation
Teaching creativity
Digital tools and methods in film education
The role of the amateur filmmaker
Mobility
Cinema of stasis and slowness
Mobility in cinema: cars, planes, trains, subways
Globalisation and the moving image
Transnational film production
Mobile cinemas and pop-up screenings
Film festivals
Storytelling
Cross-fertilization and hybridity in storytelling modes
Technology and storytelling
Digitization and film aesthetics
Virtual and augmented realities and cinema
The rise of the neuro-image
Regimes or distributions of the visible
Changing modes of film reception
Please submit an abstract (200-300 words) and short bio (max. 100 words) by 1 December 2016 to Vincent So: v.h.so at uva.nl. For panels, please submit a general panel description of 200-300 words, four abstracts (200-300 words each) and biographies (max. 100 words each).
Language: English
Notice of acceptance will be given by 1 January 2017.
While there is no conference registration fee, neither transport nor accommodation can be covered by the organiser.
This conference is part of the project ChinaCreative, funded by a consolidator grant of the European Research Council (ERC-2013-CoG 616882-ChinaCreative).
by denton.2 at osu.edu on October 28, 2016
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