Time Day 1: Monday 3rd June 2019 Time Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham (University Park Campus) 9:30 Registration, Tea & Coffee 9:30 Café & Foyer, Sir Clive Granger Building 10:00 Welcome and Introduction: 10:00 Hongwei Bao and Daniel Mutibwa (TRFC2019 Organisers); Steve Presence (RFN co-ordinator); Julia Lazarus (RFN Meeting 2019) (Lecture Theatre A48) Strand 1 (Lecture Theatre A40) Strand 2 (Lecture Theatre A41) Strand 3 (Lecture Theatre A48) 10:30- Panel 1: Text & Contexts Panel 2: Distribution and Festivals Workshop 1: Mrinal Sen’s Film 10:30- 12:00 Sven Weidner (University of Bamberg) Ka Lee Wong (University of Southern Practices: The Radical Long-1960s 12:00 The Radical Deconstruction of Suburbia California) Free Pass to be Vulgar? Vulgaria and Beyond in the Films of Todd Solondz (2012) and the Circulation of Exploitative Moderator: Manas Ghosh Films through International Film Festivals Presenters: Harry Kuoshu (Furman University) Sanghita Sen (University of St Norman Zafra (University of Auckland) Mischievous Parody and Hong Kong Andrews, UK) Making of a Transnational, Transmedia and Dimension of the Crazy Stone Revolutionary Counter-Cinema: Mrinal Transborder: Radical Documentary Phenomenon Sen’s Calcutta Trilogy Production and Distribution in the Global Omar Ahmed (University of South Manchester, UK) Cinematic Yun Peng (University of Hawai‘i at Ankush Bhuyan (Jawaharlal Nehru Mānoa) Intimate Estrangement: Expressions of Transnational Solidarity University, India) Tracing Bodo Film Festival: in Parallel Cinema (1968 – 1975): Mother-Daughter Relationship as Towards the Rise of Bodo films Statue smashing and Naxalite Critique in Small Talk Revolutionary Iconoclasm Sima Kokotović (Concordia University, Marcel Wainmayer (Independent Manas Ghosh (Jadavpur University, Canada) The Subversive Festival: Cultural Scholar) New documentary in India) Projection of Human Body in Strategies of Resistance in Postsocialism Argentina: Artisan Filmmakers in the Mrinal Sen’s Radical films: Influences Mirror of the Alternative Visual of 1940s 12:00- Lunch 12:00- 13:00 Café & Foyer, Sir Clive Granger Building 13.00

13:00- Panel 3: Film History and Panel 4: Feminist, Queer and Parallel Workshop 2: Machines for Thinking: 13:00- 14:30 Cinema Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues 14:30 Clara Santaolaya (Universitat Pompeu Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong) Fabra, Barcelona) “We, The People” Screen with Hong Kong David Archibald & Carl Lavery Characteristics (University of Glasgow) Wanwarang Maisuwong (University of Lausanne) Thai Film and Its Message of Selina Robertson (Birkbeck College, London) This workshop explores how cinema Communist Party in History Rethinking the Past through Practice: can be theatricalized and theatre Curation and Transnational Film Feminisms Mariam Waheed (Cairo University) cinematized in order to shed light on at the Rio Cinema, London 1980s how both media operate as organs for Robin Hood's Character in Egyptian Cinema Xiaopei He (Independent Scholar and what the presenters call “an affective Founder of Pink Space) My Sexy Funny pedagogy” David Wood (Universidad Nacional Activist Movies Autónoma de México (UNAM) / University of Cambridge) Echoes of the Nandi Chinni Kumar (University of Scream: Mexico’s ’68, remixed Hyderabad, India) Parallel Cinema in India: A Critical Study of Social Realism through Radical Film Form and Content

14:30- Tea & Coffee 14:30- 15:00 Café & Foyer, Sir Clive Granger Building 15:00

15:00- Panel 5: Film Philosophy, Theory and Panel 6: Film , Archives & Social Workshop 3: Leeds Animation 15:00- 16:30 Historicisation Movements Workshop: A Feminist Radical Film 16:30 Juyeon Bae (Sogang University, South José Miguel Palacios (Universidad Alberto Collective — 40 Years and Counting Korea) Re-historicizing women’s Hurtado, Chile) Radical Cinemas, Terry Wragg (Leeds Animation) memory and space: Gender, Place, and Transnational Solidarity, and the Archive: Contemporary Korean Women’s The Case of Chilean Exile Cinema (1973 – This workshop examines the ways in Documentaries 2016) which Leeds Animation Workshop’s history and practice reflect those of Nisam Asaf (Jawaharlal Nehru University, David Fleming & Filipo Gilardi the women’s movement and other India) A Mass Movement for ‘Good Cinema’ (University of Sterling, U.K / University radical cultures since the 70s, and also or How the Comrades of Good Cinema of Nottingham Ningbo) Niccolò Bruna’s to compare and contrast current and Sowed Seeds of Film Commune Ethical Process as Social Engagement: future concerns with those of other

Upholding Human Stories Against a RFN members. Sylvia Nowak (Queen’s University, Canada) Backdrop of Globalization 206 Carlton: Archival Documentary Media Dina Pokrajac (Subversive Festival, as Antiracist Resistance ) Technical-imagination and Video-utopia vs. the Death of the Image Miguel Errazu (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) The Camera as a Sabrina Yu (Newcastle University) Sewing Machine. Memory, Fragility and Making Visible ‘Invisible’ Violence: Decay in the Super 8 Film Work of The Chinese Ecofilms and Social Marginal Film Coop (Mexico, 1971-1975). Intervention

16:30 16:30 Travel to the City Centre by Bus (no.34) or Tram (getting off at the Old Market Square stop)

19:00- “Radical Book Night” (Five Leaves Bookshop) 19:00- 20:30 20:30 Mike Wayne (England’s Discontents, Political Cultures and National Identities) Clive Myer (Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice) Jack Newsinger, Steve Presence and Mike Wayne (Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisations and Activists)

Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row Nottingham NG1 2DH 0115 8373097 [email protected] Booking required: [email protected]

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Time Day 2: Tuesday 4th June 2019 Time Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham 9.30 Registration, Tea & Coffee 9.30 Foyer, Sir Clive Granger Building Strand 1 (Lecture Theatre A39) Strand 2 (Lecture Theatre A40) Strand 3 (Lecture Theatre A41) 10.30- Panel 7: Cinema, Revolution & Militancy Panel 8: Representation, Inclusivity & Workshop 4: Film Free and Easy 10.30- 12.00 Exclusivity 12.00 Esra Cimencioglu (Northwestern University) Ambrose Uchenunu (University of Benin, “My Camera is My Weapon:” The Evolution Nigeria) Nollywood Narratives: Politics of Frank Abbott of Women’s Filmmaking and Representation Exclusion in the Niger Delta and Emerging Chloe Langlois in Post-Revolutionary Iran Radical Movie Genres Pete Ellis Roger Suckling Lorena Cervera Ferrer (University College Manish Kaithwas and Maheswar Satpathy Jim Brouwer London) The Construction of the Worker’s (University of Delhi/University College Effy Harle Voice in Latin American Feminist Militant London) Portrayal of Women in Bhojpuri Mollie Boyd Cinema Film Industry of India: A Discourse Analysis Belen Cerezo

Carolina Rito (Nottingham Contemporary) of Subtle Victimization of Women Using The Cine-geographies of the Portuguese Audience Feedbacks and Film Reviews This workshop discusses an open, casual, DIY, no-snobbery Revolution. When Fiction Anticipates Reality. Victor Fan (King’s College London) The approach to making and Time It Takes for Time to End: showing film work and helping Mariz Kelada (Brown University, U.S) Extraterritoriality and the Works of others to do the same, acting as Contesting Cinematic Labor in Post- Videotage a catalyst rather than an end Revolutionary Egypt: I Have a Picture. point. This approach does not Sushmita Banerji (University of Iowa) select and reject and makes no Cinema Makes it Safe: Akaler Sandhane claim over what is of lesser or and the Problem of Looking greater value —rendering work a unique and unpredictable mixture rather than a sorted and curated screening 12.00- Lunch 12.00- 13.00 Café & Foyer, Sir Clive Granger Building 13.00

13.00- Panel 9: Activist Film Cultures, Digital Panel 10: Ideologies, Occupation & Workshop 5: Radical Film, 13.00- 14.30 Media & Technology Postcolonial Aesthetics & Politics 14.30 Marc Bosward (University of Derby) Social Elena Boschi (Independent Scholar) Software: Archives, The Digital and Radical Radical film culture in occupied spaces in Moderator: Clive Myer (Eclectic Histories Genoa: Programming, subtitling and other Films Ltd) challenges Gabrielle McNally (Northern Michigan Julia Lazarus (Radical Film University) The Radical Now: Political Binayak Bhattacharya (Manipal Academy Network Berlin, Germany) Improvisation and Social Media of Higher Education, India) “(It)… Stars the Mike Dunford (Co-op.Lux People”: Communist Enterprise and the Filmmaker) Han Lei Yang (ChongQing University) Early Days of Radical Cinema in India Peter Taylor (Berwick Film &

Activist Potential of Online Literature?: An Alejandro Pedregal (Aalto University) Media Arts Festival) In-depth Interview with 15 Online Literature “…And Only the Light Should Be Seen”: The Writers in Common Appearance of Latin American This workshop will explore the Testimonio and Third Rania Gaafar (University of Siegen, Cinema state of contemporary radical Germany) Radical Film and the New film cultures and associated Multitude: Inside the Decolonizing Realms Mani Sharpe (University of Leeds) The issues of aesthetics and politics. of Arab Techno-Futurisms and impossibility of testimony in J’ai 8 ans This exploration will build on the their Scientific Fictions (Vautier/Le Masson 1961) debates and discussions that will have been kick-started at the Radical Film Network Meeting in Berlin in early May 2019.

14.30 14.30 Travel to the City Centre by Bus (no.34) or Tram (getting off at the Lace Market stop) Meeting Point: the Stone Lions in front of the Nottingham Council House for the local Radical City Tour

15.30- 15.30- 17.30 Nottingham Radical City Tour led by Roger Tanner 17.30 (Booking required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nottingham-radical-city-walk-as-part-of-the-transnational-radical-film- cultures-conference-tickets-58457174984)

18.30- The Imider Experiment: Radical Indigenous Film Practice and Aesthetics from North Africa 18.30- 20.30 20.30 (Nadir Bouhmouch, Meriem Benidir, Said El-Boukhari, Karim Abdellah)

(The Space, Nottingham Contemporary)

Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB +44 (0)115 948 9750 [email protected] (Booking required. Eventbrite link to be made available soon)

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Time Day 3: Wednesday 5th June 2019 Time Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham 9.30 Registration, Tea & Coffee 9.30 Foyer, Sir Clive Granger Building Strand 1 (Lecture Theatre A39) Strand 2 (Lecture Theatre A41) Strand 3 (Lecture Theatre A48) 10.30- Panel 11: Exhibition, Audiences & Third Panel 12: Film Aesthetics & Avantgarde Workshop 6: A Radical Film 10.30- 12.00 Cinema Circuit 12.00

Emily Wilczek (University of Lincoln) Radical Erica Stein (University of Iowa) That Which Mic Dixon (Producer/Director Film Exhibition – A Local Perspective Is Not Yet: Utopian Aesthetics in Film War School) Andrew Feinstein (Founder Faye Corthésy (University of Lausanne, Ian Fraser (University of Loughborough) Corruption Watch UK) Switzerland) Going Transnational, Against Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Neighbouring Film Festivals: The Travelling Exhibitions of Sounds: Marcusean Moments This workshop explores New American Cinema in the 1960s mechanisms for building a

Ernesto Livon-Grosman (Boston College, circuit of Radical Film Clubs Jesse Cumming (Film Programmer, Writer U.S) Film Collectives: Recent Shifts in and Independent Scholar) “Show and Tell: similar to a chain of cinemas Politics and Aesthetics and of the use of high volume, Production and Exhibition in Contemporary Mobile Cinema time targeted nationwide Philip Todd (Leeds Beckett University) Film exhibition to educate, inspire Practices Utopias: Arden, Kubelkind and others and mobilise in support of Cyrill Miksch (University of Basel) Film as campaigns and actions Technology of War in Third Cinema

12.00- Lunch 12.00- 13.00 Café & Foyer, Sir Clive Granger Building 13.00

13.00- Panel 13: Film, Media, Policy & Regulatory Panel 14: Reel News Workshop 7: Cinema Nation 13.00- 14.30 Intervention 14.30 Sylvia Harvey (University of Leeds) Public Shaun Dey (Reel News) “American Climate Service Broadcasting, Radical Film and Rebels” Michael Pierce (Cinema Nation) Public Money in the Age of ‘Just Giving’ This workshop will discuss a new Benj Gerdes (Royal Institute of Art, methodology that Cinema Stockholm, Sweden) Radical Film as a Nation is currently developing Process of Mediated Relations: Embedded that aids individuals, groups and Documentary and the Question of Address organisations to effectively of the Future from within Activist manage their activities and Temporalities of the Present practices by taking a holistic and reflective approach to engaging Steve Presence (University of the West of with all aspects relating to England ) Doc Society and the politics of UK cinema and/or film exhibition. documentary financing

14.30- Tea, Coffee & Drinks 14.30- 15.00 Café & Foyer, Sir Clive Granger Building 15.00

15.00- 15.00- 16.00 Radical Film Network Planning Meeting 16.00 Chair: Steve Presence & Closing Comments & Thanks Hongwei Bao and Daniel Mutibwa

Lecture Theatre A48, Sir Clive Granger Building