Time Day 1: Monday 3rd June 2019 Time Sir Clive Granger Building, University of (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 Ka Lee Wong (University of Southern Practices: The Radical Long- 12:00 Bamberg) The Radical California) Free Pass to be Vulgar? 1960s and Beyond Deconstruction of Suburbia in the Vulgaria (2012) and the Circulation of Moderator: Manas Ghosh Films of Todd Solondz Exploitative Films through International Presenters: Film Festivals Sanghita Sen (University of St Harry Kuoshu (Furman University) Andrews, UK) Making of a Norman Zafra (University of Auckland) Mischievous Parody and Hong Kong Revolutionary Counter-Cinema: Transnational, Transmedia and Dimension of the Crazy Stone Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta Trilogy Transborder: Radical Documentary Phenomenon Omar Ahmed (University of Production and Distribution in the Global Manchester, UK) Cinematic South Expressions of Transnational Yun Peng (University of Hawai‘i at Ankush Bhuyan (Jawaharlal Nehru Solidarity in Parallel Cinema (1968 Mānoa) Intimate Estrangement: University, India) Tracing Bodo Film – 1975): Statue smashing and Mother-Daughter Relationship as Festival: Towards the Rise of Bodo films Naxalite Revolutionary Iconoclasm Critique in Small Talk Manas Ghosh (Jadavpur Sima Kokotović (Concordia University, Marcel Wainmayer (Independent University, India) Projection of Canada) The Subversive Festival: Scholar) New documentary in Human Body in Mrinal Sen’s Cultural Strategies of Resistance in Argentina: Artisan Filmmakers in the Radical films: Influences of the Postsocialism Mirror Alternative Visual Culture of 1940s 12:00- Lunch 12:00- 12.00- 13:00 Café & Foyer, Sir Clive Granger Building 13.00 1.00

13:00- Panel 3: Film History and Politics Panel 4: Feminist, Queer and Parallel Workshop 2: Machines for 13:00- 14:30 Cinema Thinking: Glasgow Glam Rock 14:30 Clara Santaolaya (Universitat Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Dialogues Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) “We, Kong) Screen Feminisms with Hong David Archibald & Carl Lavery The People” Kong Characteristics (University of Glasgow)

Wanwarang Maisuwong (University Selina Robertson (Birkbeck College, This workshop explores how of Lausanne) Thai Film and Its London) Rethinking the Past through cinema can be theatricalized and Message of Communist Party in Practice: Curation and Transnational theatre cinematized in order to History Film Feminisms at the Rio Cinema, shed light on how both media

London 1980s operate as organs for what the Mariam Waheed (Cairo University) 's Character in Egyptian Xiaopei He (Independent Scholar and presenters call “an affective Cinema Founder of Pink Space) My Sexy Funny pedagogy” Activist Movies David Wood (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) / Nandi Chinni Kumar (University of University of Cambridge) Echoes of Hyderabad, India) Parallel Cinema in the Scream: Mexico’s ’68, remixed 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 Panel 6: Film Cultures, Archives & Workshop 3: Leeds Animation 15:00- 16:30 and Historicisation Social Movements Workshop: A Feminist Radical 16:30 Juyeon Bae (Sogang University, José Miguel Palacios (Universidad Film Collective — 40 Years and South Korea) Re-historicizing Alberto Hurtado, Chile) Radical Counting women’s memory and space: Cinemas, Transnational Solidarity, and Terry Wragg (Leeds Animation) Gender, Place, and Contemporary the Archive: Korean Women’s Documentaries The Case of Chilean Exile Cinema This workshop examines the ways (1973 – 2016) in which Leeds Animation David Fleming & Filipo Gilardi Workshop’s history and practice (University of Sterling, U.K / Nisam Asaf (Jawaharlal Nehru reflect those of the women’s Ningbo) University, India) A Mass Movement for movement and other radical Niccolò Bruna’s Ethical Process as ‘Good Cinema’ or How the Comrades of cultures since the 70s, and also to Social Engagement: Upholding Good Cinema Sowed Seeds of Film compare and contrast current and Human Stories Against a Backdrop Commune future concerns with those of other of Globalization RFN members. Sylvia Nowak (Queen’s University, Canada) 206 Carlton: Archival Dina Pokrajac (Subversive Festival, Documentary Media as Antiracist Zagreb) Technical-imagination and Resistance 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- Intervention 1975).

16:30 16:30 Travel to the City Centre by Bus (no.34) or Tram (getting off at the 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 & Panel 8: Representation, Inclusivity Workshop 4: Film Free and 10.30- 12.00 Militancy & Exclusivity Easy 12.00 Esra Cimencioglu (Northwestern Ambrose Uchenunu (University of University) “My Camera is My Weapon:” Benin, Nigeria) Nollywood Narratives: Frank Abbott The Evolution of Women’s Filmmaking Politics of Exclusion in the Niger Delta Chloe Langlois and Representation in Post- and Emerging Radical Movie Genres Pete Ellis Revolutionary Iran Roger Suckling Manish Kaithwas and Maheswar Jim Brouwer Lorena Cervera Ferrer (University Satpathy (University of Delhi/University Effy Harle College London) The Construction of College London) Portrayal of Women Mollie Boyd the Worker’s Voice in Latin American in Bhojpuri Film Industry of India: A Belen Cerezo Feminist Militant Cinema Discourse Analysis of Subtle

Carolina Rito (Nottingham Victimization of Women Using This workshop discusses an Contemporary) Audience Feedbacks and Film open, casual, DIY, no- The Cine-geographies of the Reviews snobbery approach to making

Portuguese Revolution. When Fiction and showing film work and Anticipates Reality. Victor Fan (King’s College London) helping others to do the The Time It Takes for Time to End: same, acting as a catalyst Mariz Kelada (Brown University, U.S) Extraterritoriality and the Works of rather than an end point. This Contesting Cinematic Labor in Post- Videotage approach does not select and Revolutionary Egypt: I Have a Picture. reject and makes no claim Sushmita Banerji (University of Iowa) over what is of lesser or Cinema Makes it Safe: Akaler greater value —rendering Sandhane and the Problem of Looking 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, Panel 10: Ideologies, Occupation & Workshop 5: Radical Film, 13.00- 14.30 Digital Media & Technology Postcolonial Aesthetics & Politics 14.30 Marc Bosward (University of Derby) Elena Boschi (Independent Scholar) Social Software: Archives, The Digital Radical film culture in occupied spaces Moderator: Clive Myer and Radical Histories in Genoa: Programming, subtitling and (Eclectic Films Ltd) other challenges Gabrielle McNally (Northern Michigan Julia Lazarus (Radical Film University) The Radical Now: Political Binayak Bhattacharya (Manipal Network Berlin, Germany) Improvisation and Social Media Academy of Higher Education, India) Mike Dunford (Co-op.Lux “(It)… Stars the People”: Communist Filmmaker) Enterprise and the Early Days of Han Lei Yang (ChongQing University) Peter Taylor (Berwick Film & Activist Potential of Online Literature?: Radical Cinema in India Media Arts Festival) An In-depth Interview with 15 Online Alejandro Pedregal (Aalto University) Literature Writers in China “…And Only the Light Should Be

Seen”: The Common Appearance of This workshop will explore Rania Gaafar (University of Siegen, Latin American Testimonio and Third the state of contemporary Germany) Radical Film and the New Cinema radical film cultures and Multitude: Inside the Decolonizing associated issues of Realms of Arab Techno-Futurisms and Mani Sharpe (University of Leeds) The aesthetics and politics. This their Scientific Fictions impossibility of testimony in J’ai 8 ans exploration will build on the (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 Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB +44 (0)115 948 9750 [email protected] (Booking required. Eventbrite link to be made available soon)

20.30 20.30 Conference Day 2 ends

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 & Panel 12: Film Aesthetics & Workshop 6: A Radical Film 10.30- 12.00 Third Cinema Avantgarde Circuit 12.00

That Emily Wilczek (University of Lincoln) Erica Stein (University of Iowa) Mic Dixon (Producer/Director Radical Film Exhibition – A Local Which Is Not Yet: Utopian Aesthetics in War School) Perspective Film Andrew Feinstein (Founder

Faye Corthésy (University of Lausanne, Corruption Watch UK) Ian Fraser (University of Switzerland) Going Transnational, ) Kleber Mendonça Against Film Festivals: The Travelling This workshop explores Filho’s Neighbouring Sounds: mechanisms for building a Exhibitions of New American Cinema in Marcusean Moments the 1960s circuit of Radical Film Clubs Ernesto Livon-Grosman (Boston similar to a chain of cinemas Jesse Cumming (Film Programmer, College, U.S) Film Collectives: Recent and of the use of high Writer and Independent Scholar) “Show Shifts in Politics and Aesthetics volume, time targeted and Tell: Production and Exhibition in nationwide exhibition to Contemporary Mobile Cinema Philip Todd (Leeds Beckett University) educate, inspire and mobilise Practices Film Utopias: Arden, Kubelkind and in support of campaigns and others actions Cyrill Miksch (University of Basel) Film as 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 & Panel 14: Reel News Workshop 7: Cinema 13.00- 14.30 Regulatory Intervention Nation 14.30 Sylvia Harvey (University of Leeds) Shaun Dey (Reel News) “American Public Service Broadcasting, Radical Climate Rebels” Michael Pierce (Cinema Film and Public Money in the Age of Nation) ‘Just Giving’ This workshop will discuss a Benj Gerdes (Royal Institute of Art, new methodology that Stockholm, Sweden) Radical Film as a Cinema Nation is currently Process of Mediated Relations: developing that aids Embedded Documentary and the individuals, groups and Question of Address of the Future from organisations to effectively within Activist Temporalities of the manage their activities and Present practices by taking a holistic and reflective approach to Steve Presence (University of the West engaging with all aspects of England ) Doc Society and the politics relating to cinema and/or film of UK documentary financing exhibition.

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