Film-Philosophy Announcements

Acting Out – A symposium on Screen Performance, Inference and Interpretation

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-11-20T09:34:14+00:00

Acting Out – A symposium on Screen Performance, Inference and Interpretation

20 March 2009, University of Reading

“Clearly films depend on a form of communication whereby meanings are acted out.” (Naremore, Acting in the Cinema)

“I would like to say that what I am doing in reading a film is performing it (if you wish, performing it inside myself)” (Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness)

Keynote Speaker – Andrew Klevan, (St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford) – Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (Wallflower Press)

Instruction, Amusement and Spectacle: Popular Shows and Exhibitions 1800-1914

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-10-21T10:20:12+01:00

CFP: Instruction, Amusement and Spectacle: Popular Shows and Exhibitions 1800-1914

An International Conference hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter

16-18 April 2009, University of Exeter

Keynote speakers: Prof. Bernard Lightman, Prof. Vanessa Toulmin, Prof. Jon Burrows, Dr. Ann Featherstone, Prof. Martin Hewitt

MUSIC AND THE MOVING IMAGE IV

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-09-29T23:33:30+01:00

MUSIC AND THE MOVING IMAGE IV

CONFERENCE at NYU Steinhardt, May 29-31, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-09-02T12:16:15+01:00

CALL FOR PAPERS: Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk

An international, Interdisciplinary Conference

Cardiff University, UK
Thursday 2*Friday 3 July 2009

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Imre Szemán (McMaster University, Canada)
Dr Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK)

What are the cultural implications of living under conditions of global, manufactured risk?

Here: Radical Animation Now

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-09-01T13:01:00+01:00

Here: Radical Animation Now

Jim Hollands & Patricide
28 September 2008

Whitechapel Gallery
Angel Alley Entrance
Whitechapel High Street
London, E1 7QX
+44 (0)20 7522 7888

7pm Here, Jim Hollands, 2007, 70mins followed by Patricide, live

Emergent Encounters in Film Theory: Intersections Between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-08-30T13:36:50+01:00

Emergent Encounters in Film Theory: Intersections Between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

An International Film Studies Conference

King’s College, London, March 21st 2009, Strand Campus, supported by the KCL Roberts Fund and Wallflower Press. Organized by Davina Quinlivan, Markos Hadjioannou, Ruth McPhee and Louis Bayman.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speakers:

Parveen Adams (Fellow of the London Consortium)

Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University)

The New Extremism: Contemporary European Cinema

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-11-20T09:28:06+00:00

The New Extremism: Contemporary European Cinema

**Reminder: The submission deadline for The New Extremism Conference 21 November 2008**

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 24th-25th of April 2009

Keynote Speakers: Dr Martine Beugnet, Edinburgh University, Professor Martin Barker, University of Aberystwyth

2nd Russian Film Festival

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-07-08T08:03:30+01:00

Following the success of the First Russian Film Festival last year, Academia Rossica is proud to announce the official dates of the Russian Film Festival 2008!
From 18th- 28th of September UK audiences will be given a unique chance to indulge their interest in contemporary Russian film. 10 prize-winning films produced in 2007-2008 will be premiered in London, giving the capital an opportunity to see and judge the very best of new Russian cinema.

CFP: Documentary Now!

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-06-03T10:44:26+01:00

Documentary Now!

A Conference on the Contemporary Context and Possibilities of the Documentary

Conference Location: Birkbeck College, London

Dates: 10 + 11 October 2008

Animation Unlimited

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-30T17:18:03+01:00

The Arts Institute at Bournemouth will be hosting the 20th Anniversary Society for Animation Studies International Conference on 18-20 July.

Geographies of Film Theory

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-19T11:21:29+01:00

Geographies of Film Theory
Thursday eve 26th June – Saturday 28th June 2008
Birkbeck College, London
Organised by the Screen Studies Group in collaboration with the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies

Registration Open: Continuity & Innovation: Contemporary Film Form and Film Criticism

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-13T15:11:43+01:00

Registration Open: Continuity & Innovation: Contemporary Film Form and Film Criticism

Registration is now open for:

Continuity and Innovation: Contemporary Film Form and Film Criticism

5th - 7th September 2008, University of Reading Film Conference

Forms are available to download on our website:
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ftt/research/ftt-continuityandinnovation.asp

Keynote speakers will be Gilberto Perez, Douglas Pye and Adrian Martin. In addition, film practitioners will be discussing their work.

Programme details will follow

Deadline for all registration forms is 28th July 2008. To take advantage of the early fee, registration forms must be sent by 2nd June 2008.

Any further enquiries should be directed to the conference organisers Lisa Purse and John Gibbs at filmconference@reading.ac.uk

THOUGHT ON FILM V

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-13T09:18:38+01:00

THOUGHT ON FILM V
MONTHLY READING + DISCUSSION GROUP EXPLORING CINEMA + CINEMATIC PRACTICE THROUGH WRITTEN WORDS

A monthly reading + discussion group, Thought on Film aims to promote critical thought around film product and practice through community-based discussion. Rooted in our membership but open to the public, Thought on Film fosters the close reading of texts confronting issues in contemporary, cutting-edge cinematic practice and philosophy.

Nakba Day Events at UEL

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-13T02:07:23+01:00

Nakba Day Events at UEL
Palestine: 60 years of dispossession and resistance
Nakba Day events at the University of East London

15 and 16 May 2008, Docklands Campus, UEL

3rd Annual Film Studies Postgraduate Conference: University of St Andrews

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-07T22:44:48+01:00

3rd Annual Film Studies Postgraduate Conference

20 May 2008

Centre for Film Studies,
Boardroom, 99 North Street, St Andrews

KEYNOTE – Professor John Hill (Royal Holloway, London)

Sex in the Cinema

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-07T22:41:27+01:00

Sex in the Cinema

CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES
Postgraduate Study Day
University of St Andrews, 15 May 2008
Dept of Film Studies
99 North St, St Andrews

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Linda Ruth Williams (University of Southampton)

"I know it when I see it": Sex, simulation and classification in mainstream cinema since the 1990s.

The World Picture Conference on The Popular

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-05T17:53:39+01:00

The World Picture Conference on The Popular
October 24 and 25, 2008
Oklahoma State University

Keynote Speakers: Ernesto Laclau and Lauren Berlant

The World Picture conference is an annual meeting devoted to theory that takes place in the intimate setting of Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-01T19:15:19+01:00

Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival: 7 Screenings of Provocative Films by Talented Emerging Filmmakers

The 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival (April 29 - May 9), includes a collection of films that reflect global preoccupations - war and its aftermath, violence in myriad forms, environmental change and degradation, social inequalities and poverty, global migrations, the suffering of children, and relationships between man and women - expressed through the full range of filmmaking's genres and styles

Diversions: A festival of experimental film and video

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-05-01T15:18:15+01:00

Diversions: A festival of experimental film and video
8 – 11 May 2008
Filmhouse, Edinburgh, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ

Organised by the Film Studies section of the University of Edinburgh, this unique new event brings together some of the most important experimental film and video works from the 1920s to the present.

Guy Sherwin - Live Cinema - Performances

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-04-24T20:57:12+01:00

8th May 2008 (7 for 7.30pm start)

Guy Sherwin - Live Cinema - Performances
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Rd, London, E3 5QZ
Admission Free but booking essential events@chisenhale.org.uk

To mark the launch of OPTICAL SOUND FILMS 1971 – 2007, Guy Sherwin, the Guy Sherwin will be performing his seminal work Man With A Mirror alongside three new pieces which will be premièred at the Chisenhale Gallery, London.

Russia on Screen: Identity and Appropriation

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-03-29T10:29:37+00:00

Russia on Screen: Identity and Appropriation
Registration now Open - contact russiaonscreen@hotmail.co.uk

Saturday 10 May 2008
Conference Programme

Venue: Hitchcock Cinema, Arts G.19, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY THROUGH FILM (AND VICE-VERSA)

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-03-27T17:11:17+00:00

FILM AND PHILOSOPHY: CALL FOR PAPERS FOR VOLUME 13

SPECIAL INTEREST EDITION:

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY THROUGH FILM

(AND VICE-VERSA)

The Inhuman: Investigating Continental Thought in the Humanities

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-03-27T14:37:34+00:00

The Inhuman: Investigating Continental Thought in the Humanities

Conference Date: October 3-4, 2008

CFP Deadline: June 15, 2008

York University, Toronto

Final Call: Philosophy and Film / Film and Philosophy: A multidisciplinary conference

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-03-27T12:51:22+00:00

Philosophy and Film / Film and Philosophy: A multidisciplinary conference
Conference announcement and final call for papers
UWE in association with the Arnolfini Arts Centre, Bristol 4-6 July 2008, the Arnolfini, Bristol
Sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics

PARADISE NOW! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890-2008

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-03-11T15:20:26+00:00

PARADISE NOW! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890-2008

Friday 14 March - Friday 2 May 2008

Tate Modern, London

Jacques Rancière Conference

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-03-03T09:38:45+00:00

Jacques Rancière Conference
Wednesday 21st May 2008

www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/crfac/

Serpentine Gallery Film Programme: It’s A Sin: The Films and Inspirations of Derek Jarman

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-27T21:52:16+00:00

Serpentine Gallery Film Programme: It’s A Sin: The films and inspirations of Derek Jarman

On the occasion of the Serpentine Gallery exhibition Derek Jarman: Brutal Beauty curated by Isaac Julien, It’s a Sin, is a season of feature-length films by Derek Jarman as well as films that influenced his practice. In addition an exciting short film programme has been selected by installation artist and film-maker Tina Keane featuring works by Jarman’s contemporaries and younger film-makers. Screened at The Gate Picturehouse, Notting Hill, Greenwich Picturehouse and The Ritzy Cinema, Brixton, the series celebrates the work and legacy of this pioneering film-maker.

Tickets available from: www.picturehouses.co.uk and 0871 704 2068

Visible Evidence XV

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-27T12:26:43+00:00

Visible Evidence XV brings together scholars, artists, producers, makers and curators who engage in debates on contemporary documentary practices in all media.

Hosted by the Lincoln Chair of Communications with the support of the Grierson Trust, bfi and Wallflower, VISIBLE EVIDENCE XV will take place in one of the UK’s newest universities sited in one of its most ancient cities. As usual, the conference will address all current issues in documentary studies including documentary and history, and fact-based theatre. Screenings will include films from the British National Film and Television Archive specially digitised for the conference as well as recent Grierson prize-winners.

Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies: ‘Mapping Scotland’

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-20T23:10:09+00:00

Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies

First Conference ‘Mapping Scotland’

24th June 2008 Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow

CFP: Philosophy as Literature

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-19T21:36:58+00:00

Call for Papers: PHILOSOPHY AS LITERATURE

A Special Issue of “The European Legacy”

Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University)

CFP: THE DECALOGUE BY KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI (Cinemascope.it)

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-19T21:32:56+00:00

HUNDRED OF WAYS TO SEE A FILM
THE INTERSUBJECTIVITY OF FILM APPRECIATION
THE DECALOGUE BY KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI
Edited by Silvia Angrisani

CALL FOR PAPERS
Please, send your proposals to info@cinemascope.it

CFP: On Colour in British Cinema and Television

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-19T21:30:16+00:00

Journal of British Cinema and Television

Call for papers, Issue 12: On Colour in British Cinema and Television

DOCDAYS: THE ISTER

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-18T17:45:41+00:00

The Ister
Directed produced by David Barison and Daniel Ross
Cast: Philippe Lacoue Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Hans Jurgen Syberberg / 189 mins./ 2004

Sun 24 Feb 11:30AM

Renoir Cinema
Brunswick Centre

www.curzoncinemas.com
Box Office: 0871 7033 991

£6.50/5.50 Members

BFI: Burt Lancaster

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-14T16:20:28+00:00

Burt Lancaster, Part two

The 1960s was a period of transition in Hollywood, and no star was better positioned than Burt Lancaster to enjoy the increasing creative freedom of those changing times. As an ambitious actor and a maverick independent producer, Lancaster had long challenged the studio system’s general aversion to controversy, realism and the downbeat.

BFI: Screwball Women: Comediennes in Classical Hollywood

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-14T16:18:54+00:00

Screwball Women: Comediennes in Classical Hollywood

The contribution of directors such as Capra and Cukor to Hollywood comedy is undisputed, but their leading ladies deserve more attention. This BFI Southbank season features some of the most brilliant comediennes ever to light up the screen, including the ever sophisticated Claudette Colbert, smouldering Carole Lombard and the ‘glacial goddess’, Katharine Hepburn.

BFI: Clowning Glories: Women in Film Comedy before 1930

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-14T16:16:38+00:00

Clowning Glories: Women in Film Comedy before 1930

Women were highly active as directors during cinema’s first decades, but few comedies directed by women from this period survive today. However, a strong selection of titles are still available for this retrospective, showcasing work from Florence Turner and Hollywood’s most successful female director, Dorothy Arzner.

BFI: Birds Eye View Film Festival: Women and Comedy

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-14T16:13:51+00:00

Birds Eye View Film Festival joins forces with the BFI to present two retrospective programmes, Clowning Glories and Screwball Women, honouring the women whose comic brilliance lit up the screen from the earliest days of cinema to Hollywood’s golden era.

BFI: Twilight and Treachery: The Postwar European Film Noir

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-14T16:07:19+00:00

Twilight and Treachery: The Postwar European Film Noir

What exactly is film noir? To coincide with the BFI release of Bertolucci’s The Conformist, BFI Southbank presents a thought-provoking season to address this question throughout March.

MARKOPOULOS: PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-14T15:53:08+00:00

Friday 7 March 2008, at 7pm, Tate Modern, London
MARKOPOULOS: PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS

Markopoulos made many extraordinary film portraits, which often incorporate
an activity or object that has personal significance to the subject. This
programme presents a selection of sensuous and poetic portraits of cultural
and art world luminaries such as Gilbert & George, Alberto Moravia, Giorgio
di Chirico and Rudolph Nureyev.

Philosophy and Film / Film and Philosophy: An Interdisciplinary Conference

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-10T19:14:29+00:00

Conference announcement and first call for papers

UWE in association with the Arnolfini Arts Centre, Bristol
4-6 July 2008, the Arnolfini, Bristol

Keynote Speakers:

Vivian Sobchack (UCLA)
Stephen Mulhall (Oxford)
Robert Sinnerbrink (Maquarrie)
Catherine Constable (Warwick)
Julian Baggini (editor, The Philosopher’s Magazine)
Karin Littau (Essex)

Science Fiction Film and Television 1.1

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-09T12:50:49+00:00

Science Fiction Film and Television is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press and distributed in North America by Chicago University Press. Edited by Mark Bould (UWE) and Sherryl Vint (Brock University), with an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies.

Continuity and Innovation: Contemporary Film Form and Film Criticism

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-02-05T08:02:02+00:00

5th – 7th September 2008, University of Reading Film Conference

Contemporary film displays both its debt to the established forms and practices of narrative cinema, and to international developments in aesthetic practice and in new technologies that subtly shift the boundaries of cinema’s aural and visual field.

TRANSMISSION: CINEMA / PSYCHOANALYSIS

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-01-30T10:22:08+00:00

International Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Cambridge, 17-18 September 2008

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Kaja Silverman (University of California, Berkeley) TBC

Professor Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)

David Cronenberg: An Author Looking for a Text

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-01-16T10:57:25+00:00

David Cronenberg: Author or Film-maker by Mark Browning / £19.95, $40 / ISBN 978-1-84150-173-4 / Published October 2007.

NEW NIGHTMARES: Issues and themes in Contemporary Horror Cinema and Horror Film Criticism

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-01-13T17:45:33+00:00

NEW NIGHTMARES:
Issues and themes in Contemporary Horror Cinema and Horror Film Criticism

An international conference at Manchester Metropolitan University 3-4 April 2008

MEDIATIONS 23.1 (Fall 2007)

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-01-13T17:43:02+00:00

MEDIATIONS 23.1 (Fall 2007)

www.mediationsjournal.org

The editorial collective of Mediations, the journal of the Marxist
Literary Group, is pleased to announce the inauguration of the
journal's second series with issue 23.1, a dossier of contemporary
Marxist thought from Brazil. Mediations is published twice yearly. The
Fall issues are dossiers of non-U.S. material of interest; the Spring
issues are open submission and peer reviewed.

Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities

davidsorfa@film-philosophy.com — 2008-01-10T21:48:23+00:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

GREEK CINEMA: TEXTS, HISTORIES, IDENTITIES
Liverpool, 23rd May 2008

A one-day conference organised by
Dr Lydia Papadimitriou, Screen Studies (Liverpool John Moores University) and Dr Yannis Tzioumakis, Media and Communication Studies (The University of Liverpool)