Workshop 1 – Film and the Performing Arts

Event information Date: 29th of April 2016 Host: Aberystwyth University Website: www.aber.ac.uk/en/ Videos: www.filmandarts-network.hss.ed.ac.uk/podcast/talks/film-and-the-performing-arts Programme Rehearsal Room 1, Parry Williams Building 9.30 – Registration 9.45 –  Introduction Marion Schmid and Kim Knowles 10-11.15 – Keynote Stephen Barber (Kingston University, London), ‘Film and Performance: Intersections, Amalgams, Collisions’ 11.15-11.45 – Coffee 11.45-1.00 – Session 1 Chris Townsend (Royal Holloway, University of London), ”Picabia is… Read More

INTERMEDIALITY NOW, Sapientia University, Cluj, 19-20 October 2018

INTERMEDIALITY NOW: REMAPPING IN-BETWEENNESS International film and media studies conference organized by the Sapientia University Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 19-20 October 2018.     Download PDF. Conference website.   Connected to our new exploratory research project “Rethinking Intermediality in Contemporary Cinema: Changing Forms of In-Betweenness” funded by the UEFISCDI, and following up on the topics of our… Read More

Workshop 2 – Film, A Plastic Art

Sarah Pucill, Magic Mirror © the artist Event information The workshop will address the following questions: to what extent can film be considered a plastic art in the ascendance of photography, painting, architecture and sculpture? How does film incorporate the visual arts into its fabric and to what effect? How are static visual representations remediated… Read More

Workshop 3 – The Intermedial Avant-gardes

Isabel Rocamora. Urban intervention n. 3. Image: Muff AA © 2001

Isabel Rocamora. Urban intervention n. 3. Image: Muff AA © 2001  Event information The workshop will ask: to what extent do definitions of avant-garde/experimental film hinge on the language of other disciplines? Where is avant-garde film practice positioned in relation to the disciplines of Film Studies and Fine Art/Art History, and what are the implications of… Read More

Workshop 4 – Technological Change and Cinematic Hybridity

Gebhard Sengmüller, Slide Movie © the artist Event information The workshop will explore the following questions: to what extent does technology shape the relationship between film and the other arts? How does new media problematise and reframe notions of the ‘cinematic’? How does the history of technological development allow us to trace intermedial dialogues? How… Read More