International Conference on Space and Cinema
Type: Call for Papers
Date: May 31, 2016
Location: Portugal
Subject Fields: Film and Film History, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
The
Conference will focus on Space and Cinema in order to examine the ways
through which cinema deals with spatiality, in its bodily and
geographical materiality, as well as in its symbolic and theoretical
frameworks.
Heterotopic as it is, screen space juxtaposes
several different spaces pertaining to different dimensions (Michael
Chanan, The Documentary Chronotope, 2000): both mise en scène and
cinematic dispositifs spatialize the gaze, the vanishing point where the
filmic and the pro-filmic intersect. Space is therefore represented,
conveyed and appropriated by the cinematic apparatus, calling into
question the historical, political and philosophical aspects of an
aesthetics of spatiality in a broad sense.
All of these distinct
categories point to a fundamental idea: by definition, the moving image
dynamizes space and spatializes time, thus contributing to the changing
perceptions of space and time. We are interested in the concept of
space as an inherently cinematic feature that led to specific
developments in film language in early cinema, and which is still an
on-going subject of debate. Its conceptualization around and translation
into the film form has been the object of many theoretical and artistic
approaches, which places this call for papers in an expanded field of
work and research. We aim not only to look into the object-film itself,
but also to enrol in creative and critical excursions in the form of
papers or visual essays that somehow promote the discussion of space and
cinema (and other moving image practices).
Potential papers can address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Cinematic space, place and time
- Building the filmic space: screenplay, mise-en-scène, editing, post-production
- Space and film genres
- Body, gender and space
- Film and landscape
- Architecture and cinema
- Space and ruin
- Space and national filmographies
- Colonial and postcolonial spaces
- Exile, shifting borders and displacement
- Space and collective occupations
- Outer space and utopia
- Cartographies, maps and archive
- Roads, paths and journeys
- Travelogue and documentary film
- Mental spaces: dream, hallucination, and virtual reality
ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
Please
send the Organizing Committee 500-word abstracts for 20-minute
presentations, as well as a brief biographical note (circa 200 words),
to spaceandcinemalisbon2016@gmail.com by May 31, 2016.
Please use this template when submitting your proposal.
Notification of acceptance will be given by July 15, 2016.
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