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The NECS 2018 Conference » Amsterdam, Netherlands » June 27-29, 2018 » PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME NECS Conference Amsterdam, June 27-29, 2018 » PROGRAMME

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schedule TBD REGISTRATION location TBD 9 9 9.00-10.45 9.00-10.45 9.00-10.30 9.30-18.00 Panels Panels E1-E14 Keynote 3 10 Graduate Pre-Conference A1-A10 10 Workshop Media in 11 “To Prefer Not To: Transition 11 11.00-12.45 Media @ Utrecht 11.00-12.45 11.00-12.45 Inoperativities” Panels Panels Panels University B1-B13 F1-F14 I1-I13 12 HoMER 12

Venue: Session Opening University Venue: College Utrecht 13 Het Huis Utrecht 12.45-13.45 12.45-13.45 12.45-13.45 13 Campusplein 1 Boorstraat 107 3584 ED Utrecht 3513 SE Utrecht Lunch Lunch Lunch

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D1-D10 H1-H14 K1-K11 Vision and Sound for Institute Netherlands Venue: 17 17 17.00-18.00 17.00-18.00 Meeting Publishers / Publishers / 16:15-18.00

Travel time HoMER General Travel time

17.45-19.00 DICIS by sponsored 18 18 Panels Cinema Studies) (Digital 18.15-19.50 18.15-19.45 L1-L10 - HoMER workshop 15.45-18.30 OPENING REMARKS 19 and Keynote 2 19 HoMER Closing Closing Keynote 1 Session 18:30-19.30

20 20 20.00 20.00-1.00 TBD NECS GENERAL MEETING Party Reception 21 Venue: 21 Escape DeLuxe Rembrandtplein 11 1017 CT Amsterdam 22 22

23 23 Wednesday 27th » 9.00-10.45 NECS Conference A

1 2 Cultures of Collaboration Participation and Media Engagement of Online Communities:

- Engagement in emerging documentary practices Self-Representation Through Crowdfunding, Chair: Florian Mundhenke Social Eating and Instagram Communities Universitaet Leipzig Madalena Miranda Chair: Murat Akser »New University of Lisbon »Ulster University Collective portraits and Artivism against hegemonic structures Seda Aktaş »Nişantaşı University Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans Infrastructures of Engagement in Film Production: »Vrije Universiteit Brussel Collective Action Through Crowdfunding Difused authorship and emergent collaborations: documenting mass dissent Sedef Erdoğan Giovanelli »Istanbul Bilgi University Anna Wiehl Social Eating Platforms and New User Engagement »University of Bayreuth Practices From documentary networks to documentary worknets: Strategies of participation and co-creation in emerging İlkay Tuzcu Tığlı practices of factual »Galatasaray University User Engagement on Instagram: Diferent Strategies, Patrícia Nogueira Tactics and Transformation of Perceptions

sponsored by the CCVA – Cinema and Contempo and – Cinema CCVA the by sponsored »School of Media Arts and Design, Polytechnic Institute rary Visual Arts + Documentary Film workgroups Arts + Documentary Visual rary of Porto Interaction of the Self: participative interactive documentary as a self-referential experience 3 4 Migration Works: New Infrastructures of Experimentalism and politics of the form: reflections Cinematic Knowledge regarding space in contemporary art and cinema. Chair: Miriam De Rosa Chair: TBD »Coventry University |School of Media and Performing Arts Nanna Heidenreich Alba Giménez »ifs internationale flmschule köln »European Centre for Documentary Research - University of South Tales of Infrastructures Wales Feng-Mei Heberer Replication / Implication: Reconfguring experience in Harun »New York University Farocki’s Eye/Machine and in Rosalind Nashashibi’s Eyeballing Cutting against Border Regimes: Hito Steyerl’s João Leal Intersectional Montage »School of Media Arts and Design, Polytechnic of Porto Brigitta Kuster Artwork installation at the exhibition “The Laughable Enigma of »Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin Ordinary Life” in the Arquipélago Centre of Cont. Arts (Azores) The Becoming flm of Sir, Alfred Mehran Juliana Froehlich »(UA/CAPES) University of Antwerp Abstraction and Experimental form: space in Hélio Oiticica’s Tropicália (1967) and in Glauber Rocha’s Entranced Earth (1967). Cassia Hosni »USP/FAPESP The 12th Sao Paulo Biennial (1973): The Audiovisual Within the Art and Communication Project. 5 6 Popular cinema in Poland in the 1980s: Fan Cultural Tactics of Engagement between dominant and subversive culture

Chair: Petr Szczepanik Chair: TBD Charles University, Prague Anne Kustritz and Thessa Jensen »Utrecht University/ Aalborg University Piotr Zwierzchowski Histories of Fan Tactics for Engagement: Security, »Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz Technology, and Intimacy Political contexts of popular cinema in Poland in the 1980s Sven Stollfuß »University of Leipzig, Institute of Communication and Jarosław Grzechowiak Media Studies »University of Lodz Television, Social Media and Audience Engagement Party in the Cinema – Cinema in the Party. Representations of recent history in pro-communist Sophie G. Einwächter Polish movies of the 80s. »Philipps-University Marburg A Fan and Celebrity Studies Perspective on Scholarly Marcin Adamczak Tactics of Engagement »Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Socialist imitation of New Hollywood as tactics of Polish Vicente Rodríguez Ortega cinema in 80’ »Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Soccer Fandom & Media Engagement: from Stadium Arkadiusz Lewicki Violence to Transmedia Hooligans »University of Wroclaw Why Empire showed “Star Wars”? Distribution policy in Poland in the 1980s

3 Wednesday 27th » 9.00-10.45 NECS Conference A

7 8 Strategic Spaces of Engagement in Film The Ethics of User Technologies Festivals’ History from 1950s to 1970s Chair: Stefano Pisu Chair: TBD »University of Cagliari/University of Roma Tre Sander De Ridder Caroline Moine »Ghent University »University of Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines Dating and Datafcation The objectifcation and The International Federation of Film Producers Associations standardization of intimate connection Backstage at International Film Festivals during the Cold War Stephanie Dossou Stefano Pisu »Trinity College, Dublin »University of Cagliari/University of Roma Tre Strategies and Tactics in Finance - The Role of Finance The “Giornata del flm europeo” in Venice: Between Film Art in Citizen Engagement: A Case Study of the Finance Festivals and European Media Policies, 1956-1960 Art Installation Gabrielle Chomentowski Niels Niessen »National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, »University of Amsterdam Paris Questioning the Academic Integrity of Turnitin. African and Arab Filmmakers at Moscow and Tashkent Film Festivals: Foreign Policy and Professional Strategy during the Cold War Elena Razlogova »Concordia University, Montreal Translation as Surveillance and Curation at the Moscow International Film Festival in the 1960s 9 10 Alternative Aesthetics Migration and flow

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Cécile Chieze Temenuga Trifonova »Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 »York University Cinematographic encounters: Refection on the use of The Ethical Turn in European Cinema of Migration compositing in The Red Drum Gateway, Hell’s Club and The Was. Irina Trocan »National University of Film and Theater Bucharest/ Mustafa Orhan Göztepe University of Pennsylvania »Istanbul Kültür University Audiovisual representations of race: from essay cinema On the usage of video letters as a hybrid element in My to online videos Marlon and Brando (Karabey, 2008) Aija Laura Zivitere Elina Reitere »Information Systems Management Institute (Riga) » “Human Flow”: Creation of the World and Ai Weiwei’s When you leave. Breakdown in communication in slow Strategies of (In)Visibility flms Silvia Murillo Chang-Min Yu »University of Zaragoza (Spain) »University of Iowa “Land-Gazing”: Engagement Through Focalization in Reconsidering Cinematic Modernism: the Hong Kong Sicario (2015) New Wave’s Corporeal Engagement

11 Tactics in Eastern European Cinema

Chair: TBD Varga Balázs »ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Whose territory is it? Social apocalypse, political discourse and artistic tactics in Kornél Mundruczó’s Jupiter’s Moon Katarina Misikova »Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava Engaging with the Past. Poetics and Pragmatics of Representing the Political Situation of the 1990s in Slovak Cinema Terez Vincze »Department of Film Studies, ELTE University Film as Social/Cultural Manifesto in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema (A Case Study: Magyarország 2011)

4 Wednesday 27th » 11.00-12.45 NECS Conference B

1 2 Hacking and Making the Digital Era Film and crisis: social change and representation in 21st-century cinema Chair: TBD Maria B. Garda Chair: Elena Oliete-Aldea »Flinders University »Universidad de Zaragoza Maria B. Garda has a PhD in Cultural Studies and is a postdoc researcher at Flinders University, Australia. She Elena Oliete-Aldea is co-founder of »Universidad de Zaragoza Disaster Capitalism: The representation of the Global Gleb J. Albert Financial Crisis in Chandor’s Margin Call (2011) »University of Zurich Copying Software in the Age of Early Home Computing: Carmen Indurain Between Piracy, DIY, and Emerging Markets »Universidad Pública de Navarra Crisis and Society: Contemporary Silver Road Movies in Anders Carlsson the USA »Independent Researcher How Chip Music Hackers Have Changed Materialities for Luis Miguel García-Mainar 30 years »Universidad de Zaragoza Crisis and Society: Contemporary Crime Film and Miroslaw Filiciak Television in Spain »SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities Hacking the Past, or How to Make Audiovisual Archives Iván Villarmea Álvarez for the Future »Universidade de Santiago de Compostela It Could Happen to You. Characters as Places of Enunciation in Iberian Austerity Cinema

3 4 Mood, Medium, Milieu: Atmospheric Media Audiovisual Tactics and the Politics of Engagement in 1920s Film, Photography, Theory Representation in Brazilian Cinema and Art Chair: TBD Chair: Abraham Geil Naara Fontinele dos Santos »University of Amsterdam »Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (France) and Minas Gerais Federal University (Brazil) Inga Pollmann (Counter)information, interpellation, uncovering, »University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill empowering: The challenge of documentary under the The Film Medium as Milieu: Camera Movement and Brazilian Dictatorship Environmental Aesthetics in the Lupu Pick’s and F.W. Murnau’s Kammerspielflm Érico Araújo Lima »Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (France) and Antonio Somaini Fluminense Federal University (Brazil) »Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 House, neighborhood, engagement: Brazilian Towards an Archaeology of the Concept of Medium: contemporary cinema and practices of habitation Light, Atmosphere, and Transparency in the Work of László Moholy-Nagy Isaac Pipano »Fluminense Federal University (Brazil) Eszter Polonyi Machines who make to see: images, tactics and »Pratt Institute, History of Art and Design education in Brazilian public schools Old and New Media: Béla Balázs and the Close-Up Michael Karrer »University of Tübingen (Germany) No home movies: Approaching the Everyday in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema 5 6 Tactics as amateur/amateurism as tactics Engaging Film and Digital Images - Transmedial Modes of Circulation, Materiality, Aesthetics Chair: TBD Chair: Juliana Fröhlich Tim van der Heijden »University of Antwerp »University of Luxembourg Conceptualizing tactics and engagement in amateur Faye Corthesy media practices: a longue durée perspective. »Department of Cinema Studies of the University of Tom Slootweg Lausanne »University of Groningen Tactics of Circulation: The Travelling Exhibitions of New A critical view on past amateur media engagements: American Cinema in the 1960s Tactics and strategy from the perspective of a Dutch James Snazell video collective in the »Edge Hill University Susan Aasman Arts workgroup Re-Thinking Film through Re-Thinking Emulsion »University of Groningen Rania Gaafar Tactical strategies: Complex contradictions of the amateur »University of Siegen / American University of Beirut in the age of YouTube. Here or Now - Time, Deep Matters of the Archive and the Contemporaneity of Images sponsored by the Cinema & Contemporary Visual Visual & Contemporary Cinema the by sponsored

5 Wednesday 27th » 11.00-12.45 NECS Conference B

7 8 Festival Strategies: Top down / Botom up Spatial Engagements: Geography and Location Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Melis Behlil »Kadir Has University Andres Bartolome Antalya in Istanbul: An Alternative “National Competition” »Universidad de Zaragoza Film Theory, Film Geography: Space and/as Engagement Ann Breidenbach in the Movies. »Stephens College Sightlines and Shadows: Citizen Jane, Activism, and Lavinia Brydon Women’s Film Festivals »University of Kent The tactical nature of pop-up cinema Diane Burgess »University of British Columbia Arjen Nauta #SeeTheNorth: Re-curating the National After TIFF at »University of Amsterdam Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival Localization Strategies and Content Production in Contemporary China: the case of Hunan Satellite TV Ger Zielinski »Ryerson University Hollie Price Film Festivals as Media Practice: On Community Tactics »Queen Mary, University of London and Strategies of Infuence ‘How to Pack a Hall’: Building Non-Theatrical Film Circuits for the British Ministry of Information, 1940-45

9 10 Digital Tools and Embodiment Tactical Media Politics

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Aleena Chia Nicole Braida »Center of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, University »Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz of Jyväskylä Media for Change? Every Bit in its Place: The Biopolitics of Decluttering in Digital Minimalism Christian Rossipal »New York University (Tisch School of the Arts) Gabriel Menotti Gonring The Noncitizen Workshops – Transversal Media and the »UWM (US) / UFES (Brazil) Politics of Dissonance Forensic Hallucinations: Tactical Uses of 3D Scanning Tyler Theus Franziska Schloots »Brown University »Paderborn University Engaging the Neoliberal Subject: Imaginary Lures and Use of wearable devices and active engagement in the Rules of The Game in Primer health promotion Brett Zehner Laura Vermeeren »Brown University »University of Amsterdam Exit Language: Tactical Media Between Foucault and “Calligraphy in the digital age” Guattari

11 12 Strategies of East European Performance Art Opening: New Cinema History: Where Next? - Part I: Actionism

Chair: Mario Slugan Chair: Philippe Meers »Ghent University A workshop on the occasion of the imminent publication Boryana Rossa of the Routledge Companion to New Cinema History »Syracuse University, NY (2018 forthcoming), a state-of- the-art overview of Television, Electronic Media and Live Streaming as current research in new cinema history. Robert C. Allen, Strategic tools in the Works of Oleg Mavromatti and Daniel Biltereyst, Annette Kuhn, Richard Maltby & Melvyn ULTRAFUTURO Stokes will be refecting on the future directions of the feld and will be discussing topics such as intermediality Irina Schulzki and the anti-archive, comparative approaches, cultural »LMU Munich memory and the importance of studying distribution. Tactics of Insurgency in Petr Pavlensky’s Political Art: Enacted Subjection, Extended Performance, Mediatisation HoMER - Plenary Session HoMER - Plenary Grey Violet »Independent scholar and artist Lazy Volition: Non-Engagement and Actionism between tal Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe Eastern and in Central Cultures tal East and West sponsored by the Apparatus. Film, Media and Digi and Film, Media Apparatus. the by sponsored

6 Wednesday 27th » 11.00-12.45 NECS Conference B

13 Towards an Art of Participation - Aesthetics and Ethics in Collaborative Documentary Practices

Sarah-Mai Dang »Philipps-Universität Marburg Florian Mundhenke »the Institute for Media and Communication (IMK), University of Hamburg Madalena Miranda »Nova University of Lisbon Workshop Ivo Ritzer »University of Bayreuth

7 Wednesday 27th » 13.45-15.30 NECS Conference C

1 2 New Tactics of Media Engagement in the Age Creative Models to Engage (with) Migrants. of State and Corporate Censorship Media, Migration and Policies for Intercultural Dialogue Murat Akser »Ulster University Chair: Ruggero Eugeni Erkan Saka »Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore »Istanbul Bilgi University Mariagiulia Grassilli Sirin Erensoy »University of Sussex »Kultur University ‘Migrant’ Cinema in Italy aka New Italian Cinema: Identity, Diversity and Plural Creativity. Duygu Karatas Nadia - Tanya Bellardi - Kayhan »Goldsmiths University Workshop »Community Media Forum Europe - OKTO-TV The right to have a voice – portraits of community media productions by migrants and refugees Alice - Maria Francesca Cati - Piredda »Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore supported by the Council of Europe Council the by supported MigrArti Cinema. The Italian Institutional Strategy to raise Awareness of Cultural Diversity

3 4 Theories and/as Tactics. From the Avant- Subversive Narratives in Eastern European garde to Contemporary Art Restoration. Cinema of the Cold War Era.

Chair: Antonio Somaini Chair: TBD »University Paris 3 - New Sorbonne Sabine Hänsgen »University of Zurich Livia Plehwe Mikhail Romm’s Ordinary Fascism: Subversion through »University of Paris-Sorbonne / European University Compilation. Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Crossing borders: Media Tactics and Engagement in Jana Rogof Hans Richter’s avant-garde magazine G-Material zur »Charles University, Prague elementaren Gestaltung Life in a Cube: Tactics of Dissent in Eastern European Animation Lydie Delahaye »University Paris 8 Matthias Schwartz Pedagogical Media as Art Tactics »Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin Subverting the Human. Late Socialist Dystopian Cinema Enrico Camporesi (Sokurov, Szulkin, Tarkovskii, Żuławski) »Institut national d’histoire de l’art On Restoration as Tactics Barbara Wurm »Humboldt University in Berlin On Parabolic Grounds.

5 6 The Music Video in Transformation Sports and Cross-Media Engagement

Chair: TBD Chair: Markus Stauf »University of Amsterdam Stephen Amico »University of Bergen Carlos d’Andréa and Andre Mintz Music Video, Public Debate, Afective Demolition »Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil TV, Twitter, and beyond: the “live” cross-platform Nilgun Bayraktar circulation of images about 2018 FIFA World Cup Final »California College of the Arts Draw Performing Non-belonging: Intersections of Screen Art, Music Video, and Refugee Mobilities Florian Hoof »Center for Advanced Studies Media Cultures of Tomáš Jirsa Computer Simulation at Leuphana University Lueneburg »Palacký University Olomouc Cross-Media Distribution: New Sports Films Afective Reenactment: Music Video and Its Subversive Tactics Lorena Tárcia »Centro Universitario de Belo Horizonte, Brazil Mathias Korsgaard Convergence and hyper dispositive: cross-media »Aarhus University. Film and Media Studies coverage of the Summer Olympics by the BBC in 2012 From Video Jukeboxes to MTV to YouTube: The Changing Dynamics of Music Video Travis Vogan Distribution »University of Iowa, USA HBO Sports: Docu-Branding Boxing’s Past and Present

8 Wednesday 27th » 13.45-15.30 NECS Conference C

7 8 Film Festivals in the Global South Science Fiction, Fantasy, Lore Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Julia González de Canales Pablo Gómez Muñoz »University of Vienna »Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain European Film Festivals’ production strategies in the Spatiotemporal Connections as Cosmopolitan Tactics in Global South Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Cinema Juliana Muylaert Mager Sarah Kelley »Universidade Federal Fluminense »University of Bristol Brazilian documentaries in IDFA’s Bertha Fund: The Harry Potter flms and the representation of British discussing the place for non-European cinemas in a culture: a paratextual analysis globalized flm festivals circ Rikke Schubart Konstantinos Tzoufas »University of Southern Denmark »University of Zurich Female Agency, Fantastic Mobility, and Landscape: The Timely opportunities or poisoned gifts? The New Case of Queen Lagertha in Vikings Argentine Cinema, the Greek New Wave & the festival funding/prod. instruments Ahmet Yuce »Georgia State Univeristy A HYBRID-IMAGE: VIRTUAL REALITY AND MEMORY IN WESTWORLD

9 10 New Narrative Strategies Augmented and remix cinema

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Malgorzata Bugaj Kim Wilkins »University of Edinburgh »University of Sydney Film Screening as an Event: Augmented Cinema These violent delights: Navigating Westworld as Experiences in the Age of Streaming ‘prestige’ television Elizabeth Cadena Sandoval Chris de Selincourt »University of Groningen »London College of Communication – University of the Defamiliarisation in the Film Museum: The Reuse of Arts London Hollywood Films in Screen-Reliant Exhibitions The wrong thing is the right thing to do – narrative Conor O’Kelly strategies and editing tactics for the attention economy »Trinity College Dublin Elena Sarno Playing the Flâneur: Digital Experience and Simulated »University of Sydney, University of Ansterdam Reality Possible cinemas: the examples of Daisies (1966) and Su-Anne Yeo Heart of a Dog (2015) »Emily Carr University of Art + Design Sabrina Sauer The Role of Liveness in Digital Culture: Strategizing for »University of Groningen Engagement in a Convergent Age Tactics of narrative creation: Engaging with exploratory search tools to research the social acceptance of migrants

11 12 Strategies of East European Performance Art. Workarounds - Media Tactics of Engagement - Part II: Spectacle Chair: Alexandra Schneider Chair: Francesca Scotto Lavina »Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz »La Sapienza University of Rome Marek Jancovic Goran Pavlić »Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz »University of Zagreb Adapters: Trivial Media Objects as Workarounds in The Case of Oliver Frljić: Mass Media as Postdramatic Academic Practice. Dramaturgical Tool Tina Bastajian Błażej Filanowski »Amsterdam University College (AUC) »University of Łódź MediAntics: Adventitious Detours that Activate Hybrid Photography as Performative Activity. In Search of Space and Emergent Micro-publics Images of Urban everyday life in Contemporary Polish Art Nicole Kandioler »Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Łukasz Biskupski “It Doesn´t Matter” and “There´s Nothing there.” »University of Gdańsk Workarounds Against Memory Loss in Conceptual Art. Street is not Enough. Performing Street Art on the Internet tal Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe Eastern and in Central Cultures tal sponsored by the Apparatus. Film, Media and Digi and Film, Media Apparatus. the by sponsored

9 Wednesday 27th » 13.45-15.30 NECS Conference C

13 14 Programming and Popularity Distribution and Exhibition Strategies

Chair: Daniela Treveri Gennari Chair: Stephen Hughes Thunnis Van Oort & Roel Vande Winkel »University of Amsterdam; KU Leuven and LUCA School Denis Condon of Arts Antwerp »Maynooth University, Ireland Film Programming during World War II: A Comparative The Film Company of Ireland’s Distribution and Case Study into Cinema Exhibition in German-occupied Exhibition Strategies, 1916-21 Amsterdam Karina Pryt Joseph Garncarz »University of Freiburg (Germany) »University of Cologne Marketing Strategies and Tactics in Film Distribution and ‘Two hours of enjoyable distraction’: Revising our Exhibition in the Multiethnic City of Warsaw in the 1920s knowledge of the Nazi era flm and 1930s HOMER HOMER Terezia Porubcanska & Philippe Meers James Burns »ViDi, University of Antwerp »Clemson University Towards a systematic comparative approach to historical Building the Caribbean market: Cinema Entrepreneurs in cinema city cultures: The case of flm programming in the British West Indies, 1912-1940 Antwerp and Ghent, 1952 Daniel Biltereyst & David Morton Marina Moguillansky »Ghent U, Belgium; University of Central Florida, USA »Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales (IDAES-UNSAM) “A Favorable Field by American Distributors”: Contemporary Americanized spectatorship in Latin Hollywood’s strategies for maintaining its hegemonic America: a comparative perspective using box ofce data position in Belgium after the introduction of sound, 1927- 1939

10 Wednesday 27th » 15.45-17.00 NECS Conference D

1 2 Radio and Liveness Fan practices

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Luisa Drews Rudmer Canjels »University of Vienna, Department of German Studies »Independent Scholar Politics of Body and Space. Reinventions of the medium Vidding: Engaging Serial Narratives, Distribution and in early Theories of German Radio Plays Memory on the Remixed Screen Anthony Enns Tessa Dwyer »Dalhousie University »Monash University Live Musical Spectaculars: Eventizing Network Television Fansub Tactics in the Post-Network Age Aris Emmanouloudis Ania Mauruschat »University of Amsterdam »University of Basel Gaining a ‘Fandvantage’: Financing and Community Noisy engagements with digitization: The catastrophic Building in On-line Video Game Fandom radio plays of Ammer/Einheit

3 4 Imagining the Posthuman Bodily Engagements

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Canan Balan Ilaria Antonella De Pascalis »Istanbul Şehir University »Roma Tre University Looking from the Rooftops Down: Nostalgia, Trance, Elizabeth II Regina: Bodily Performances and Audiences Touch and Ecofeminism Engagement in Netfix’s “The Crown” Francesco Sticchi Kristina Pia Hofer »Oxford Brookes University »University of Applied Arts Vienna, Department of Art Undoing Male Fantasies and Narrative Reliability in Park History Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden Tactics of Rhythm and the Unfolding of History: Woolworths Choir of 1979 and 9 is 1 and 10 is None Tess Voormeulen »University of Amsterdam Alena Strohmaier ‘They Could Be Starlings’: A posthuman reading of »Phillipps-Universität Marburg Becoming-animal in Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color Boats, Bodies, Borders: Aesthetic, ethical, and political (2013). implications of media (re)presentation

5 6 Melodrama Independent and minor cinemas

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Santiago Lomas Martínez Michael Goddard »Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) »University of Westminster Women, melodrama, homosexuality and authorship in Radical ‘Minor’ Cinemas in the 1970s: Alberto Grif, Emile Juan de Orduña’s flms de Antonio and the ‘Anthropology of Disobedience’ Victoria Pastor-Gonzalez Nessa Johnston »Regent´s University London »Edge Hill University Contemporary Female Biopics, Messing with the Rules of ‘Bloody Flamingos’: ‘trashing’ production studies Engagement Jamie Sexton Wim Staat »Northumbria University »University of Amsterdam Tactically Aligning Taste Cultures: American indie flm Todd Haynes’ melodramas of the unknown woman and indie music

11 Wednesday 27th » 15.45-17.00 NECS Conference D

7 8 Cinematographic Ethics Queer Film Festivals

Chair: Patricia Pisters Chair: TBD Martin P. Rossouw Frederik Dhaenens »University of the Free State »Ghent University The ‘Randomizing Rituals’ of Terrence Malick: Moderately Queer Programming at an Established Improvisational Filmmaking Practices as Ethical Tactics LGBTQ Film Festival: A case study of BFI Flare-London LGBT Film Festival Eva Sancho Rodriguez »Universiteit van Amsterdam Theresa Heath Ethics without Politics? Political subjectivity after »King’s College, London postmodern authenticity and sincerity in American ‘Revolution sometimes happens because everyone Independent Cinema refuses to go home’ Precarity and resistance at queer flm festivals. Robert Sinnerbrink »Philosophy, Macquarie University Jonathan Petrychyn The Act of Witnessing: Cinematic Ethics in The Look of »York University Silence Happy Queers in a ‘Market without Imagination’: Canadian Queer Film Festival Programming Tactics, 1995-2005

9 10 Activist media and empowerment Urban Interfaces and participatory design/ planning Chair: TBD Liwen Deng Chair: TBD »University of Amsterdam Playing with fre? The tactics of self-organised solidarity Ginette Verstraete & Liesbeth Huybrechts actions on and of Wechat during eviction of migrant »Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam workers in Beij Interfacing Genk Claudia Pummer Cristina Ampatzidou »University of Hawaii at Manoa »University of Groningen Manifesto! Jean-Marie Straub’s vidéo-tracts (2006-2014) Playing with Urban Complexity in Groningen Renée Winter Nanna Verhoef »Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna »Utrecht University Between Activism and Self-Government. Strategies and Critical Design and Media Art in Urban Space Tactics of (Self-)Empowerment through Video

11 Strategies of East European Performance Art. - Part III: Intermediality

Chair: Katarzyna Włoszczyńska »IKKM Weimar Karol Jóźwiak »University of Łódź The Use of Bodies in Zofa Rydet’s “Sociological Record” Lukas Brasiskis »New York University Mermaid with A Movie Camera: Performative Eco- Criticism in Emilija Škarnulytė’s No Place Rising (2016- 2017) Mathieu Lericq »Aix-Marseille University Karol Radziszewski’s performance art and Queer Activism in Contemporary Poland tal Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe Eastern and in Central Cultures tal sponsored by the Apparatus. Film, Media and Digi and Film, Media Apparatus. the by sponsored

12 Thursday 28th » 9.00-10.45 NECS Conference E

1 2 Engagements in Ethical Criticism in Teaching Representing the Other and the Tactics of Media Visual Alterity Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Randall Halle Bernd Herzogenrath »University of Pittsburgh »Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany Seeing the Other With(out) Sympathy: Migrants in the European Media Apparatus Andrea Pócsik »Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary Daniela Berghahn »Royal Holloway, University of London Mathieu Lericq ‘Seeing themselves through Western eyes?’: Nostalgia »Aix-Marseille Université, France and Self-exoticism as Tactics of Audience Engagement in

Workshop Contemporary World Marta Kasprzak »University of Łódź, Poland Ayça & Ozan Tunç Cox & Ustuk »İzmir Institute of Technology Roma People of Sıra District Rewrite Their Cinematographic Images: Empowering the Marginalised Paul Cooke »University of Leeds Participatory Filmmaking for Advocacy: Building More Inclusive National Narrative by, and for, Marginalised Communities

3 4 Queer, Cross-cultural Mobility, Hyper- Engaging in Cultural Democracy: Pedagogy, cognitivity: Television Forms and Platforms in Curatorship, Artistic Practice the Digital Age Chair: Synne Tollerud Bull »University of Oslo, Norway Chair: Barbara Laborde »Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris3 Andrea Pócsik »Pázmány Péter Catholic University Marta Boni & Joëlle Rouleau “We, Europeans...” Challenges of socially engaged art, »University of Montréal curatorship and teaching practice Tell your own story! Queering Television Series Miriam De Rosa Stefano Baschiera & Valentina Re »Coventry University »Queen’s University Belfast; Link Campus University of Curating Moving Images in the Postdigital Age Rome Paula Albuquerque Crime on demand: the role of crime narratives in Netfix’s »University of Amsterdam / Gerrit Rietveld Academy production and distribution strategies Beyond the Violet End of the Spectrum – Specter Mireille Berton Visualization in the Age of CCTV and Drones »Université de Lausanne Susan Kerns « But Who is Who ? » Dark and the Hyper-Cognitive »Columbia College Chicago Spectator Embodying Pedagogy and Contradiction in Film Festival Planning and Curation

5 6 Media, Sincerity, Face: The Cinema of Marlen Situating and Displacing Projection Khutsiev

Chair: Gabriel Menotti Gonring Chair: TBD »UWM (US) / UFES (Brazil) Zdenko Mandušić Michael Pigott and Richard Wallace »Saint Louis University »University of Warwick / UK Sincere Realism: Film Style and Discourse in Soviet A New ‘Wild West’ of Projection? Cinema of the Thaw Adrian Palka Viktoria Paranyuk »University of Coventry / UK »Yale University Bark and Butterfies: Projection, Post-Memory and Performing Cinematic Sincerity: Marlen Khutsiev’s Ilich’s Phantasmagoria Gate (1962) Anthony Head and Leila Sujir Lida Oukaderova »University of Concordia / Canada »Rice University Elastic 3D Space Facing the Face: Marlen Khutsiev’s July Rain (1966) Cécile Martin »University Paris 8 / France From Projection to Screen: Cinema’s Unknown Legacy

13 Thursday 28th » 9.00-10.45 NECS Conference E

7 8 Self-reflexive tactics in film through the Global Television Industries exploration of the still image: awareness and Chair: TBD engagement of the spectator Chair: Gonzalo De Lucas Florian Krauß »Pompeu Fabra University »University Siegen Producers’ tactics towards ‘quality series’ within the Ivan Pintor Iranzo German context »Pompeu Fabra University Lydia Papadimitriou Still image and editing in audio-visual essay and comic-book »Liverpool John Moores University essay. An iconology of the historical and political witness. Global internet TV in a small national context: Netfix in Carolina Sourdis Greece »Pompeu Fabra University Mark Stewart Constraints and potentialities of media practices as political »University of Amsterdam discourse: the essay flms by Sonimage Laboratory. The Transcultural History of The Tribe Alan Salvado Michael Wayne »Pompeu Fabra University »Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Cinematographic closures: the still image as a visual motif Global SVOD Portals and National Television Industries: A Mariana Freijomil Case Study of Multi-Channel Providers in Israel »University Pompeu Fabra Rewriting History from spaces of absence: remapping the Spanish Civil War through the image-monument

9 10 Obsolescence / The forgoten Beyond Film: Post-cinema and Art

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Christa Blümlinger Henning Engelke »University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis »Philipps-Universität Marburg Poetics and politics of obsolescence Film as Non-Art: Sol Worth, Visual Communication and Cinema Studies Pamela Gionco »Universidad de Buenos Aires Chancheol Jeong Tactics against obsolescence: some practices for keeping »Hanyang University, Korea. the old machines alive The Space-Image as a Regime of Post-Cinematic Images Ella Klik Kamil Lipiński »New York University »Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan Loss and the Digital: Stories of the Irretrievable Cinematic interventions by Pierre Huyghe in site-specifc projections Calum Watt »Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 Giulia Raciti Strategies of erasure and defacement in Société Réaliste’s »University of Palermo ‘The Fountainhead’ (2010) Avant-garde and new wave tactics traits in the cinema of Carmelo Bene

11 12 New Thrills: Stragies of shock and suspense Media Archeologies of the Screen Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Anna Batori »Lecturer in Film Studies, Babes-Bolyai University Giorgio Avezzu The Death of Narratives. Michael Bay’s Transformers- »Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano series The Screen, its Forgotten Etymology, and the Aesthetics of Disengagement Loretta Gof »University College Cork Christian Köhler Environmental Power: “Consuming” Nature in Irish Eco- »Paderborn University Horror Procedural Mimesis. Dolf Sternberger’s Tactical Engagement with Media History Zeynep Koçer »Independent Researcher Cecilemarie Martin Islam, gender and hegemony building practices: Horror »Paris 8 cinema in Turkey The screen: a key element of the Western culture Alex Marlow-Mann Rose Rowson »University of Kent »Brown University Engagement and Post-colonialism in the French Political Cultural Production, Residual Memory: A (Media) Thriller Archaeology of Traumatic Landscapes

14 Thursday 28th » 9.00-10.45 NECS Conference E

13 14 Moviegoing, exhibition and reception Distribution Strategies, Oral History and practices in the late Otoman Empire and Personal Archives Turkey Chair: Annette Kuhn

Chair: Jef Klenotic Daniela Treveri Gennari & Sarah Culhane »Oxford Brookes University; University of Bristol Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen Reconstructing flm industrial history through personal »University College London memories and artefacts Film Exhibition in fn-de-siècle Istanbul Nektaria McWilliams Ayşe Toy Par »Oxford Brookes University »Galatasaray University Historical Film Distribution, Missing Pieces of the Puzzle, Moviegoing Practices in Adana in the 1940’s and Oral History HOMER HOMER Özge Özyılmaz & Sarah Neely Jacqueline Maingard »Istanbul Şehir University; University of Stirling »University of Bristol Cross-Cultural Adaptation in the Early Talkies: The Tactics for monopoly distribution and exhibition in Africa: Reception of Tell England (1931) in Turkey Twentieth-Century Fox’s stake in South Africa in the 1950s Kathleen Lotze »University of Antwerp Of picture palaces and meat factories. Memories of cinemagoing in Antwerp

15 Thursday 28th » 11.00-12.45 NECS Conference F

1 2 Tactics of Temporal Engagement in the Tactics of identity performance in Hungarian Audiovisual Experience. A Neurofilmologial cinema Approach Chair: TBD Chair: Antonio Somaini »Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Gabriella Lakatos »Eötvös Loránd University Ruggero Eugeni Stuck Between Social Classes: Entering Higher Social »Università Cattolica del sacro Cuore Classes as a Source of Humor in Hungarian Films of the Take your time. A theoretical framework 1930s and 1940s Federica Cavaletti Györgyi Vajdovich »Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore »Eötvös Loránd University Time to act. Experimental procedures Lost and found identities. Upper-class heroes in middle- class roles in Hungarian flms between 1931 and 1945 Adriano D’Aloia »International Telematic University Uninettuno László Strausz Nut-cutting time. Results discussion »Eötvös Loránd University Rags to Riches: comedy and discourses of class mobility in contemporary Hungarian genre cinema Beja Margitházi »Eötvös Loránd University Coming and growing: generational strategies for survival in post-communist Hungarian cinema

3 4 Queer Tactics, On and Behind the Screen: Addressing and Engaging Audiences through Practices of Coalition and Refusal in Cinema’s Transmedia Comics Culture Queer Commons Chair: Véronique Sina »University of Cologne Chair: Ger Zielinski »University of Toronto Sándor Trippó »University of Debrecen Antoine Damiens Bearing Witness: Visual Strategies of Audience Engagement »Concordia University in Nonfction Comics Cinefable’s invisible labour: Paris International lesbian flm festivals’ subtitles, translation, and solidarity Laura Schlichting »Justus Liebig University Giessen Emma Flavian The Role of Authors to Comics Journalism »McGill University Screening the Tear: Black Counter-Cinema, Bad Parolees, Christina Meyer and Spectatorships of Empathy »University of Hamburg Transmedia Practices, Modernity, and Celebrity Culture in Clinton Glenn Early 20th-Century America »McGill University Murderers of the Patriarchy: Reframing the (Queer) Felix Brinker Nation in Romas Zabarauskas’ Porno Melodrama and »Leibniz University Hannover You Can’t Escape Lithuania Superhero Blockbusters and the Politics of Audience Engagement

5 6 Alternative spaces / disengaged terrains – Strategies and Tactics of Film and TV expanded cinemas in London during the 1960s Distribution: a Global and Digital Perspective and 1970s Chair: Massimo Scaglioni Chair: Leo Goldsmith »Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano »Center for Experimental Humanities, New York University Damiano Garofalo »Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano Claire M. Holdsworth The International Circulation of Italian Cinema in the »(Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London) Digital Age: Theories, Practices, Research Prospects Locating the voice in improvised and expanded cinemas Luca Barra Sophia Satchell-Baeza »Università di Bologna »Kings College London, University of London Online Circulation of the Italian Submissions for the Underground discotheques and intermediality in 1960s Academy Awards: Patterns and Barriers London Petr Szczepanik Kathryn Siegel »Charles University, Prague »Kings College London, University of London Channels and Barriers of Cross-Border Circulation in the Practices of Writing and Publishing at the London Era of Online Platforms: A Small Market Perspective Filmmaker’s Co-op after 1966 Philip Drake »Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK UK Television and Its Circulation in the Context of Online Platforms and Super-Aggregators

16 Thursday 28th » 11.00-12.45 NECS Conference F

7 8 Post-colonial Media Interventions Aesthetics of Resistance in Turkish Media

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD May Chew Emre Caglayan »York University »Newcastle University Technologies of Immersion: Cité Mémoire in Old Peasants, rebellion, death: Third cinema in 1970s Turkey Montreal Irem Inceoglu Phirum Laurence Gaillard »Kadir Has University »Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle Does censorship-free screen liberate? A comparison of A genocidal sideshow: The French television and the television and internet series from Turkey Democratic Kampuchea Özlem Savas Erden Goktepe »Brandenburg Center for Media Studies and Bilkent »University of Edinburgh University Politics of “New Man” in the New Cinema of Turkey Digital spaces of intimacy, afnity, and afective politics of new migrants from Turkey Tiera Tanksley »University of California, Los Angeles Race, Gender and Digital Diasporas: A Post-Colonial, Global Black Feminist Perspective

9 10 Neuro/Cognitive Networks Sonic and Visual Resistance

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Jakub Jiriste Selina Hangartner »NaFilM: National Film Museum / Film Studies »University of Zurich, Department of Film Studies Department, Charles University in Prague High fdelity and the voice in early German sound flm NaFilM Film Museum Project: Constructive ways to present the variable flm medium Hannah Paveck »King’s College London Daniel Leberg Resistant Silence and the Everyday: Spatiotemporal »University of Amsterdam Disruption in Elia Suleiman’s The Time that Remains Acting’s Other Method: Sanford Meisner and Annie Hall (2009) Théo Lepage-Richer Bruno Toussaint »Brown University »Paris VII Denis Diderot Making a Fool of Neural Networks: On Adversarial Media tactics of visual and sonic sedation and sideration: Attacks and Punctate Representation a marketing strategy Francesca Scotto Lavina Tanya Shilina-Conte »La Sapienza University of Rome »SUNY at Bufalo The afective engagement of new media art: the enactive When the Internet Goes Dark: Elective Mutism in Social tangibility of Studio Azzurro’s Tables Media

11 12 Performing the Nation Utilitarian Tactics (I): Utility Film, Spatial Construction and Post-war Reconstruction Chair: TBD Chair: Sofa Sampaio Nicholas O’Riordan »CRIA, ISCTE-IUL »University College Cork Performing Identity through Voice: Accents and Identity Vinzenz Hediger Politics in Recent Irish Cinema »Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt Fernando Ramos Arenas Yet Another Tramp Abroad: George T. Fonda, Steel »Georgetown University (Washington DC) Executive, travels through Germany, ca. 1947 From Stalinism to Cinephilia. East German flm culture in Francesco Pitassio the 1950s: politics, pedagogy and avantgarde »Università degli Studi di Udine Manana Shamilishvili Housebuilding, Nationbuilding: Italian Post-war »Associated Professor of Tbilisi State University reconstruction, policies, and the utility flm Publications: The Georgian Messenger and The Georgian Paolo Villa Mail in the Georgian-British Relations Context »Università degli Studi di Udine Claudia Sicondolfo Images to rebuild Italy. Olivetti and the industrial »York University documentary (1949-1960) SESQUI: 360-Degrees of Canadian Nationhood

17 Thursday 28th » 11.00-12.45 NECS Conference F

13 14 Tactical or Practical? Engaging Movie Early Cinema Exhibition Audiences through Memorabilia Chair: Maria Velez Serna Chair: Melvyn Stokes Julia Bohlmann Paul Moore »University of Glasgow »Ryerson University in Toronto, Pictures for the Common Good – Clydebank’s Municipal 350 Couriers, 250 Tonights: Job Printers’ Souvenir Cinema, 1918-1932 Handbills for US Cinema Exhibitors Paola Barreto Leblanc Judith Thissen »IHAC-UFBA »Utrecht University. “I prayed a barbarian mass”: cinemas and cathedrals in A Craving for Chocolate, Cigarettes, and Cinema Stars: Bahia HOMER HOMER Food and Tobacco Companies’ Targeting of Film Fans Stephen Hughes Jessica Whitehead »SOAS University of London »York University Cinema exhibition as incitement to discourse: meetings, Branding Movie-going: Famous Players’ Canadian speeches and clubs of early Tamil cinema Adaptation of Dish Night and Foto Night Martin F. Norden André van der Velden »University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA »Utrecht University Bravura Beginnings: Paul Leni and the Art of the Memorabilia, Missing Genes and the DNA of Film Culture Prologue

18 Thursday 28th » 13.45-15.30 NECS Conference G

1 2 How to Teach European Cinema: the European Defamiliarisation, Doubling and the Digital University Film Award and Beyond Image Chair: Martine Beugnet Chair: TBD »University of Paris-Diderot Kathrin Kohlstedde Martine Beugnet »Filmfest Hamburg »University of Paris-Diderot Big Screen, Small Screens: Film, Scale and the Dagmar Brunow Aesthetics of Estrangement »Linnaeus University Kriss Ravetto Lydia Papadimitriou »University of California, Davis »Liverpool John Moores University Defamiliarizing Dance: Interacting with Digital Embodiment Workshop Laura Copier Allan Cameron »Universiteit Utrecht »University of Aukland Corporeal Frames: Found-Footage Horror and the Dis- located Image

3 4 Tactical Fabulations & Immanent Utopias Curatorial, artistic and public engagement: From Re-enactment to Remontage Chair: Alanna Thain »McGill University Chair: Marie Rebecchi Alanna Thain »University of Udine | Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne »McGill University Nouvelle Anarchival Love: Tanya Tagaq’s “Nanook of the North” and Chronic Collage as Fabulative Form Francesco Zucconi »Lauro de Bosis Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Toni Pape Caravaggio on Lampedusa and other displacements »University of Amsterdam Queering Combat Tactics: The Sociopolitical Values of Marie Rebecchi Stealth Gameplay »University of Udine | Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle Ilona Hongisto Research-based exhibition: Sergei Eisenstein and the »MacQuarie University possibilities of the remontage To begin again: Serial non-fction media and the form of the true Cristina Baldacci »Postdoctoral Fellow, Art History and Theory, ICI Berlin Ayanna Dozier Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Berlin) »McGill University Time-based exhibitions: Rosa Barba’s cinematic rhythms Mothering Ourselves: Fabulated Black LGBTQ HIV Lives in and Philippe Parreno’s visual hypothesis the flms The Atlantic is a Sea of Bones (2017) & Labyrinth (2017) Stefano Chiodi »Associate Professor, Università Roma Tre Forcener l’exposition | Maddening the Exhibition

5 6 Potentials and Challenges of Digital Culture Independent Distributors and Contemporary European Cinema Chair: TBD Chair: Petr Szczepanik Steyn Bergs »Charles University, Prague »Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam From Work to Mainframe: An Institutional Critique of the Christopher Meir Internet »Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid Jandy Luik Independent Distributors and European Film Circulation: »University of York, UK The Case of Spain’s A Contracorriente Films Virtual Creative Hubs and Online Production Ana Viñuela Eef Masson »Universite de Paris-Diderot »University of Amsterdam Mapping Independent Distribution in France Visual Analysis as a Means of Tactical Subversion in the Roderik Smits Exploration of Digitized Moving Image Collections »University of York Dijana Protić Continuity and change: understanding new approaches »The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, to flm distribution through processes of re- Croatia intermediation Exploring media tactics and social engagement in web project State-citizen communication

19 Thursday 28th » 13.45-15.30 NECS Conference G

7 8 Film Festivals after Netflix VR and the Politics of Embodiment

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Aleksandra Milovanovic Luca Acquarelli »Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Serbia »Université Lille 3 - Geriico (Re)thinking Distribution, Exhibition and Spectatorship: Virtual Reality embodied aesthetics between tactics, Sustainability of Balkan Film Festivals strategy and inter-medial montages. Eija Niskanen Bjorn Beijnon »University of Helsinki »Dept. Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University Positing animation flm festivals in the flm festival circle Strategies in VR: the Construction of New Modes of Visuality and Subjectivity Pete Porter »University of Amsterdam Maja Manojlovic Okja, satire, and Netfix: this giant piggy went to market; »UCLA, Writing Programs this giant piggy came home. The “Interworld,” “Body of Sensation,” and Teleinteractive Aesthetics of Tilt Brush VR Kirsten Stevens »Monash University Matteo Treleani Film Festivals After Netfix: Rethinking contemporary flm »Université de Lille festival engagement and programming tactics Immersive paradigms and spectatorial practices in VR cinema

9 10 Digital Media Art Explicit images Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Jihoon Kim »Chung-ang University, South Korea Malini Guha Postinternet Art of the Moving Image and Globalization »Carleton University in Asia: Strategies of Postproduction and Circulationism Adventurous Appropriations: The Politics of Austerity in Paul O’ Neill Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights (2015) Trilogy »School of Communications, Dublin City University Joerg Helbig Digital Activism and Resistance through Tactical Media »Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Art Practices Subversive Strategies in Sexploitation Films of the 1960s Maciej Ożóg and 70s. »Department of Electronic Media, University of Lodz Serjoscha Wiemer Subvering mass participatory surveillance. Internet art as »Universität Paderborn a critical discourse on Web 2.0 surveillance. ‘Explicit’ Content and ‘Sensitive’ Media: Critical Renée Ridgway Engagement within Filter-Ecologies between dildo-play »CBS/Leuphana University:Digital Cultures Research Lab und genderless_nipples. Re:search - Terms of art

11 12 Data subjects Utilitarian Tactics: Utility Films, Industries and Practices II

Chair: TBD Chair: Francesco Pitassio »Università degli Studi di Udine Jean-Sebastien Hardy »Johns Hopkins University Giovanni Grasso Prophecies in the Deep Web: “Breadcrumbs” as a »University of Udine Critique of Information Media in the Post-Truth Age Traveling Across Italy. Industrial Reconstruction Through the Lens of Italian Railway Co. Documentary Films (1948- Jakko Kemper 1953) »University of Amsterdam Engaging the Imperceptible: digital autonomy and the Federico Pierotti (im)possibilities of engagement »University of Florence Designing the future. Olivetti’s industrial flms: politics, Tobias Matzner technologies, and media »Paderborn University Performativity of Subjects, Performativity of Software Sofa Sampaio – revisiting the tactics of subjectivation in the context of »CRIA-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa algorithmic An industrial impulse? Work and flmmaking tactics in Portuguese tourism flms (1940-1970)

20 Thursday 28th » 13.45-15.30 NECS Conference G

13 In memoriam Karel Dibbets (1947-2017)

Chair: Clara Pafort-Overduin

Robert C. Allen, Lies Van de Vijver, Thunnis van Oort, Joseph Garncarz, Karina Aveyard, Daniel Bilteryest and Philippe Meers will be refecting on Karel Dibbets’ life, work and heritage with special attention being paid to the afterlife of Cinema Context in new projects. HOMER - Plenary Session HOMER - Plenary

21 Thursday 28th » 15.45-17.00 NECS Conference H

1 2 MovingTV Tactics Online: Film Distribution Cross-media Journalism and (Anti)Piracy Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Monique Miggelbrink Naima Alam »Paderborn University, Department of Media Studies »University of Tübingen Tactics of the Interior: Housing Television in Postwar Explaining Why You Should Join the Cause: The Germany beyond top-down Planning Development Organization Story Gabriel Villota Kiki de Bruin »Basque Country University / Universidad del País Vasco »Hogeschool Utrecht, University of Applied Sciences / Euskal Herriko Unibertistatea Utrecht Alexander´s Kluge television, or the Electronic Variety Present and engaged in a virtual world: To a conceptual Show model of immersive journalism Saige Walton Renée van der Nat »University of South Australia »Utrecht University & Utrecht School of Journalistm The Fine Art of Murder: Style, Stasis and Coming to terms with journalistic multimedia narratives Sculpting Death in NBC’s Hannibal (2013- 2015)

3 4 Iranian media activism Re-evaluating Film Phenomenology

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Samaneh Assadi Nowghabi Philippe Bédard »University of Amsterdam »Université de Montréal The Interaction Between Iranian Cinema and Iranian Vanishing Point(s): Sight and the Body in Moving Image Society in Iran’s Transitional Era Media Azine Mohammadali Christian Ferencz-Flatz »Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle »Alexandru Dragomir Institute for Philosophy, Bucharest The charismatic images : activist media and media Media Physiognomics. Learning from Adorno’s Tactical activism in Iran Revaluation of Phenomenology Golnaz Sarkar Farshi Markos Hadjioannou »Bauhaus-Universität Weimar »Duke University Mass medial strategies of the memory industry in post-79 Interactive Engagements: Toward a Refraction of Iran: Evolution of the war-flm genre Cinematic Spectatorship

5 6 Dark Ecologies and Cybermedia Film and video activism

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Padraic Killeen Sirin Erensoy »Trinity College Dublin »Istanbul Kültür University Harvesting Old Tomorrows: Boards of Canada, Stranger Video Activism as a Tool of Political Engagement Things, and Further Acts of Re-Dismembering the 1980s ‘Horror Synth’ Score Barry Natusch »Nihon University Thomas Pringle Film as an activist tactic in media strategy: Challenging »Brown University the theft of a community architectural asset Tactical Computation: Documenting Resilience from Nuclear Winter to Climate Change Francesco Spampinato »Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 Sebastian Scholz The Yes Men: Ecocritical and Tactical Media »Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Dis/Integrating Media Environments: Sensing in Algorithmic Culture

22 Thursday 28th » 15.45-17.00 NECS Conference H

7 8 Counternarratives and Politics of Stardom Recovering Feminist Voices

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Leonie Schmidt Selime Buyukgoze »University of Amsterdam »İstanbul Ayvansaray University Cyber Warriors and Counter Stars: Counterterror Tactics From streets to the screen: women’s tactics of stepping on Indonesian Social Media Accounts up Umberto Famulari Rosanna Maule »Indiana University, Bloomington »Concordia University How the far right interacts with on-line supporters in Retrieving Women’s Cinema in Absentia: Feminist Italy: The case of the Northern League and its leader Historiography as Archival Tactic Matteo Salvini Jennifer O’Meara Mark Gallagher »University of St Andrews »University of Nottingham Remixing actresses voices on the You Must Remember From _Carlos_ to _Narcos_: Latinos on 2010s This podcast Transnational Screens

9 10 Contemporary Documentary Politics Disruptive Media Tactics Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Guilherme Carrera Campos Leal Oemer Alkin »University of Westminster »Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf An architecture of failure: constructing ruins in Rio de Islamophobia in Contemporary German Cinema: Parasitic Janeiro Strategies Ruby Cheung Daniel Fairfax »University of Southampton »Goethe Universität Involuntarily Transnational Film Distribution: Hong ISIS, the Cinema and Death Kong’s Documentary Films in the Twenty-frst Century Surbhi Goel Dagmara Rode »Panjab University, Chandigarh »University of Łódź Revolving mutations in mediatization: media folds of Women’s history, documentary, and feminist activism in creative/exploratory responses/dialogues Poland

11 12 Cinema, Video and Digital Production The Politics of Assembling: The Archive as a Tactical Gesture Chair: TBD Chair: Rosanna Maule Jeremy Hamers »Concordia University, Montreal »University of Liège Clean hands vs “Alternativ(e) Television”? Criticism and Lola Remy imitation in Adorno, Enzensberger, Negt and vom Bruch »Concordia University, Montreal Aaron Hunter Assemblage as Methodology: A Multidisciplinary »Maynooth University Approach of Harry Smith’s Archive. A Diferent Way to Cut: Creative Labour and the Women Ylenia Olibet Editors of 1970s Hollywood »Concordia University, Montreal Zizi Li Digital Archiving for the Transmission of Women’s »University of California, Los Angeles Cinema: The Case Study of the Italian Feminist collective On Chriselle Lim and CINC Studios: Is Creating Digital “Le Nemesiache”. Production Studios the New Business Model for Mega Maria Sabatina Mennuti Infuencers? »Universidade Nova de Lisboa The Mash - Up as Tactical Distortion of the Popular Archive.

23 Thursday 28th » 15.45-17.00 NECS Conference H

13 14 The Persistence and Variety of Cinema From ‘New’ to ‘World’ Cinemas: Sites and Theatres Circuits of Film Circulation in Latin America

Chair: Judith Thissen

Åsa Jernudd & Mats Lundmark Chair: Maria Luna- TecnoCampus- ESUPT- UPF »Orebro University The Persistence of Cinema in Rural Sweden: a location Maria Luna analysis »TecnoCampus (ESUPT-UPF) Mapping imagined geographies. Following the traces of Anthony Peppiatt undisciplined micro-histories. »Nottingham Trent University The Children’s flm foundation; losing the audience Carolina Sourdis »University Pompeu Fabra

HoMER A National Cinematography from the regions: Colombian HOMER Renata Gomes Lima »Mary Immaculate College, Limerick cinema through the eyes of flm criticism A critical analysis of the Irish Cinemobile - 2000 to 2016 Jasper Vanhaelemeesch »University of Antwerp The social life of flm: global circulation strategies of emerging flm cultures in Central America

24 Friday 29th » 11.00-12.45 NECS Conference I

1 2 Tactical Media in the Struggle between the Italian Tactics: Technologies, Agencies and Aesthetics and Politics: Immersion, and Environments Performativity Chair: Joyce Goggin Chair: TBD »UvA Diego Cavallotti Ole Frahm »University of Udine »Frankfurt Video, Technology and Agency: the Case of Pratello TV The anesthetization of aesthetics or a political aesthetics? The Case of the Holocaust Memorial of the Andrea Mariani Institut für Politische S »University of Udine Desert Resistance. Glitches, Breakdowns, and Media Victoria Brüker Arrhythmia in the Sahara »Universität Hamburg The ‘Identitarian Movement’ – Homeland, Freedom and Simone Dotto Whose Tradition? – Tactical Media Usage of the Far- »University of Udine Right in Germany Italian Electroacoustic Communities. Strategies of Production and Representational Tactics in the Ethnic Andreas Stuhlmann Record Trade »University of Alberta Welcome to Hell! Grey Masses, Radio Ballets, and Tactical Media Usage. Maike / JUlia Boldt / Schumacher »Universität Hamburg In/visible Bodies in the temporally militarized urban space – Performative Actions and Remediation 3 4 Seeing, touching, feeling: Novel theoretical Tactics and Engagement in Media Cultures of and technological constructions of aesthetic Genre and sensory experience Chair: TBD Chair: Patrícia Nogueira »School of Media Arts and Design, Polytechnic Institute Hannah Schoch of Porto »University of Zurich Staging a Double Revolution: “Hamilton”’s Tactical Synne Tollerud Bull Engagement of Genre »University of Oslo, Dept. of Media and Communication Proxistance Irina Gradinari Gradinari »University of Hagen Susanne Østbye Sæther Collectivity in War Movies »Independent Scholar Pink Skies and Green Screens: Readymade Colors and Ivo Ritzer Chroma Keyed Moods in 21st Century Video Art »University of Bayreuth Media Tactics of Genrefcation in the Age of Post-Third Olivia Eriksson Cinema »Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University Re-negotiating Relational Art Practices: Film Installation Karina Kirsten and the Politics of Participation »University of Marburg Marketing Strategies and Genre Tactics of “Psycho” Agata Mergler »York University, Toronto, Canada Haptic Moving Images

5 6 Women, Mothers, Media: strategies, tactics, Independents, Freelancers and and participation in gendered media Entrepreneurs: Reconsidering Authorship and productions Sponsored Filmmaking Chair: Hannah Surma Chair: Alexandra Schneider »Utrecht University »Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Giovanna Faleschini Lerner Emil Stjernholm »Franklin and Marshall College »Lund University, Sweden Transmedia Approaches to Postfeminist Motherhood: Stigmatized, Marginalized, Celebrated: Tracing the Una mamma imperfetta, Bad Moms, and Consuming Biography of Gösta Werner Mothers. Alexander Stark Maria Elena D’Amelio »Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany »University of San Marino Tactics of a Professional Amateur – Researching Motherhood and Media: audience engagements, Elisabeth Wilms’ Sponsored Filmmaking transmedia strategies and transatlantic approaches in Abbatto i muri, Baby blues, an Maria Vinogradova »New York University, USA Nafseh S. Mousavi Low in Prestige, High in Creative Opportunity: Soviet Non- »Linnaeus University, Sweden theatrical Film and Experimental Culture (1960s – 1980s) Migrant agency in repetition: Satrapi and the transmedia self.

25 Friday 29th » 11.00-12.45 NECS Conference I

7 8 Mediatizations of diaspora Chinese Media Tactics, Now and Then

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Marietta Kesting Jeroen de Kloet »Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and University of Applied »University of Amsterdam Arts, Vienna No Time to Waste – Chinese Youth and a Tactics of Black Diasporic Sound Tactics – of Post-Slavery, Black Precarity Panthers, Cyborgs, and Women Feigelson Kristian Eren Odabasi »University Sorbonne Nouvelle / IRCAV »University of Massachusetts Amherst Filming the Chinese Cultural Revolution: meanings of the Indian Diaspora and The Global Circulation of Popular French flmmakers’ engagements in May 1968 ? Hindi Cinema in the Digital Age Rowan Parry Rebecca Sheehan »University of Amsterdam »California State University, Fullerton Transient alternative public spaces: independent flm Serious Games: Paradoxes of Movement in Interactive screenings in Beijing US-Mexican Border Crossings Christina Wang »Lingnan University Reading the Image: a study on intertitles in the 1920s Chinese cinema

9 10 Politics in Polish Cinema Urban Media Spaces Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Beryl Hawkins Elzbieta Durys »Temple University Japan »University of Lodz, Poland Hosting Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Games: The Challenge of New nationalism in Polish Documentary Cinema after “Managing” Global Media Coverage 2010 Anna Viola Sborgi Paulina Haratyk »King’s College London »Jagiellonian University Millennium Mills: London’s last ruin across media Amateur flmmakers in the ambiguous reality of the formats. Polish Peoples Republic Isabel Stein Malgorzata Radkiewicz »Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro »Jagiellonian University, Institute of Audio Visual Arts Investigating privileged and oppressive conditions as “Travelling Cinemas” in Poland: propaganda, social refected in Portuguese boutique iconography events and artisitic projects Doris Wilson Morgan Thomas »Utrecht University, University of the Philippines Baguio »University of Cincinnati (Un)covering the layered interface of the Baguio Historical Forms of Surveillance, Fraternity and Irony in Kieślowski’s Walk Art Map Red

11 12 Experiencing the past: Theoretical and Reception, Culture and Genre Methodological Perspectives Chair: Philippe Meers Chair: TBD Sarah Kelley Rasmus Greiner University of Bristol »Universität Bremen The Harry Potter flms and the representation of British Histospheres: Audio-visual strategies and viewer`s culture: a paratextual engagement in historical flm Mario Slugan Marina Hassapopoulou Ghent University »New York University Reconstructing the ‘Fake Film’ Genre through Playing with History: Collective Memory, National Contemporary Marketing and Reception Materials Trauma, and Dark Tourism in Virtual Reality DocuGames Elodie Valkauskas Natalija Arlauskaite HoMER University of Lorraine »Vilnius University The reception of «New German Cinema» in France The Still Is Not Enough: Re-Mediation of Photographic during the sixties and the seventies: a market study Archives in Post-Soviet Lithuanian and Post-Salazar Portuguese Film Silvia Dibeltulo Oxford Brookes University Li-An Ko ‘Genre and Audiences’ Engagement: Analysing memories »Utrecht University of 1950s Italian cinema-goers Ruins of History: Huang Ming-Chuan and the Practice of Independent Filmmaking in Taiwan

26 Friday 29th » 11.00-12.45 NECS Conference I

13 Movies and Power

Chair: Lies Van de Vijver

Jefrey Klenotic »University of New Hampshire (USA) ‘The Industry’s Own Scotland Yard’: Strategic Responses to Exhibition Contract Stephen McBurney »University of Glasgow The Great Fire of Bridge Place (1899), in ‘Natural Colours’: Social and Political Engagement through Early Film in Aberdeen, Scotland 1899

HoMER Nezih Erdoğan »Istanbul Sehir University Programme, Film Culture and Early Film-Going in Istanbul Talitha Ferraz »ESPM / PPGCine-UFF - Brazil Connections between cinema-going memory and cinema-activism: examining identity strategies of Brazilian audiences

27 Friday 29th » 13.45-15.30 NECS Conference J

1 2 Ethnomethodologies. Everything you always A Phenomenology of Viewer’s Engagement wanted to know but never dared to ask through the Senses

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Petr Szczepanik Carlos Roos »Charles University, Prague »Leiden University Modes of sensory engagement: Intentionality and the María Paz Peirano visual arts »Universidad de Chile Zsolt Gyenge Lesley-Ann Dickson »Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design »Queen Margaret University Embodied Inattention, Haptic Images and Disoriented Travelers in Jesper Just’s Videos. A Phenomenological Approach to Moving Ima Workshop Alexandra-Maria Colta »University of Glasgow Fátima Chinita »Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Film and Theatre School Blue as the Big Screen and the Film Therein: Cinematic Perception through Coenasthesia Gavin Wilson »University of Wolverhampton Lies, Damned Lies and the Colourful Artifce of Cinematic Subjectifcation

3 4 Engaging in Conversation with Digital Inspecting Players’ Engagement in Time: Machines A Data-assisted History of the Adventure Genre Chair: Ginette Verstraete »Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Chair: TBD Jori Snels Carl Therrien »University of Amsterdam »Université de Montréal Can the computer speak? An analysis of how Lin Ke Macro Historical Methods: Creating a Consistent gives a voice to digital technology Analytical Tool and Selecting Relevant Games Marlies Peeters Isabelle Lefebvre »Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam »Université de Montréal Processing: translating programming languages to visual A Macro History of Adventure Games: Analyzing creative practice Common Trajectories and Exceptions Through HACS Juliette Huygen Jean-Charles Ray »Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam »Université Paris 3 Spheres of Perception A Data-Based Study of the French Touch: Using HACS in a Local History of Video Games

5 6 Between Engagement and Self-Criticism: Resistant Mediations in the neoliberal Contemporary Tactics in Immigrant Film and university Media Chair: Katarzyna Marciniak Chair: TBD »University of Ohio Áine O’Healy Cornelia Grabner »Loyola Marymount University »University of Amsterdam Engaging Migrant Subjectivities, Undoing the Order of ‘Infrastructural Alignments: From the Facilitation to the Things Infltration of Everyday Life’ Katarzyna Marciniak Steve Hanson »Ohio University »University of Salford Being-with #standwithrefugees: Aerial Shots and Close- ‘Language, juridical epistemology and power in UK Ups as Media Tactics in Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow universities’ Alice Bardan Brian Baker »Mount St. Mary’s University »Lancaster University Film Extras as Migrant Laborers: Mediating Tactics of ‘New ways of life, new dreams of space: critiquing the Empowerment neoliberal university’ (co-delivered with Bennett) Alex Lykidis Bruce Bennett »Montclair State University »Lancaster University Migration and the Bourgeois Family in Michael Haneke’s ‘New ways of life, new dreams of space: critiquing the Happy End neoliberal university’ (co-delivered with Baker)

28 Friday 29th » 13.45-15.30 NECS Conference J

7 8 Nonhuman Forces in Eco-cinema Queer Tactics in Film and Digital Media

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Chiara Dionisi Paris Cameron-Gardos »University of Roma Tre »Universiteit van Amsterdam - ASCA The Soul as the visible matter: for an ecosophical Tactically Out: North Sea, Texas and Cinematic aesthetics of contemporary cinema Resistance with Coming-Out Narratives Catherine Lord Daniel Kulle »Media and Culture, UvA. »University Hamburg Shamans Of the Grid: Gaian Networks and Tactics of aesthetic transgression. Is there a queer Anthropocenic ‘attention’ in The Embrace of the Serpent experimental flm? (Guerra, 2015). Belén Vidal Reuben Martens »King’s College London »Ghent University and KU Leuven Queer moves and tactical memory in the new European “April and the Extraordinary World” of Alternative heritage flm Energy: Confronting Theoretical Boundaries of Energy Shuaishuai Wang Radoslaw Przedpelski »University of Amsterdam »Trinity College Dublin Live streaming, situational sociality, and afect: Monetizing Steppe Media. Fibulas for the Future of Art: Huun-Huur- gay interactions on Chinese gay dating apps Tu, Lynch, Rogiński

9 10 Material Ontologies of Film Representation in World Cinema Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez »University of Iceland. Researcher/Sessional Lecturer Jacqui Knight Staging Indigeneity: Indigenous Audiences vis-à-vis »Plymouth University Representations of Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema A New Materialist Ontology of Photography Agnieszka Piotrowska Bregt Lameris »University of Bedfordshire »Universität Zürich The place of the Other in a postcolonial encounter Teaching the Materiality of Film at the Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern Alireza Razazifar »Damghan University Marcy Saude Cinematic Realism in Digital Transition »Plymouth College of Art Old Weird Materialism: Production and Distribution of Humberto Saldanha Photochemical Artist Film »University College Cork The Cosmopolitan Landscape: Brazilian Cinema and the Global Sertão

11 12 Archival engagements: renegotiating Film Festivals mediated memories in the digital era Chair: Paul Moore Chair: Marina Hassapopoulou »Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies Cinema Sezen Kayhan Studies department Tisch School of the Arts New York »Koc University, Istanbul University Alternative Exhibition Strategies of Film Festivals in Turkey Annette Kuhn »Queen Mary University of London María Paz Peirano Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive »Universidad de Chile Audience Formation”: Film Festivals and the Expansion Irena Řehořová of the Cinematic Field in Chile »Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities workgroup

Digitization of Film Heritage in the Czech Republic: HoMER Vincent Baptist Controversy Between the National Film Archive and »University of Amsterdam Cinematographers Curated Circulation: Exploring the Consecutive Dissemination of Feature Films by Festivals, Distributors Dagmar Brunow and Cinemas »Linnaeus University, Sweden Archival tactics and queer vulnerability. Curating access Maria A. Velez-Serna to audiovisual heritage in Europe. »University of Stirling

sponsored by the ‘Cultural Memory and Media’ Media’ and Memory ‘Cultural the by sponsored Fringe festivals and DIY flm exhibition in Scotland Isabelle McNeill »University of Cambridge Unfreezing The Past: Feminist Remediation in Sally Potter’s Thriller (1979) and Agnès Varda’s Les Dites cariatides (1984)

29 Friday 29th » 13.45-15.30 NECS Conference Event J

13 Alternative distribution, VoD streaming Chair: Robert C. Allen Mattias Frey »University of Kent Algorithm vs. Curation: VOD Recommendation Systems’ Challenge to Film Criticism Juana Suárez & Pedro Adrián Zuluaga »Tisch School of the Arts; Independent Scholar Alternative circuits for flm distribution in Colombia Thiago Afonso de André »University of São Paulo HoMER Movie-going practices at the University of São Paulo’s repertory cinema

30 Friday 28th » 15.45-17.30 NECS Conference K

1 2 PhilosophyCreative Industries, of Film and Destructive Media in Transition Powers: Cinematic Labor: Regulation, Industry, The Politics of Creative Labour Creativity, Experience

Patricia Pisters Chair: TBD »University of Amsterdam Jaap Verheul Nicholas Baer »King’s College London »University of Amsterdam In-Between and In-Visible: Semi-Professional Labor in Regional Film Industries Leo Goldsmith Debashree Mukherjee »New York University »Columbia University Towards a Theory of Production Experience Maria Poulaki »University of Surrey Sonja Simonyi Workshop »Independent Scholar “One Must Refrain from Any Form of Institutionalization”: Experimental Film Production in 1970s Hungary

3 4 Tactics and Engagement on the Edges of The Poetics of Engagement and “Chinese” Cinema Disengagement in Reality TV Chair: TBD Chair: Hannah Surma Ying Qian »Utrecht University »Columbia University (USA) Tactics and Visions at the Wartime Border: Zheng Herbert Schwaab Junli’s Long Live the Nations (1941) »University of Regensburg, Regensburg Inactivity and Resistance in Reality TV Victor Fan »King’s College London Dominik Maeder Love and Fear of Mediated Reality: The Emergence »University of Bonn, Germany of Hong Kong’s Extraterritorial Consciousness Exposure Therapy: Staging the Conversion of Disengagement into Engagement in Reality TV Luke Robinson »University of Sussex, UK Jule Korte Kazuhiro Soda’s Migrant Voices »University of Düsseldorf (Germany) Dis-/Engaging with Television: Ecologies between Elena Pollacchi Meaning and Mattering »Ca’ Foscari University of Venice/Gothenburg University Stephan Trinkaus Extensive Duration as Tactic: Chinese (Long) »University of Cologne (Germany) Documentaries and the Festival Circuits The RTV-Ecologies of Everyday Life

5 6 Conflicting Cinematic Desires: including or The Politics of (Post-)Soviet Cinema gazing at colonized, decolonized, recolonized others Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Juho Ahava »University of Iowa Matthew Croombs Montage Spectator: Lev Kuleshov on Film and Its Viewer »University of Calgary The Militant Image Reconsidered: On René Vautier and Jana Dudková the Work of History »content-ur Institute of Theatre and Film Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences Nicole Beth Wallenbrock Betrayed Socialism? Images of Youth, Revolution and »Syracuse University Conformism in Slovak Television Film of Early 1990s An Algerian satire of the Algerian Revolution : The Crazy Years of the Twist (Les Folles Années du Twist) Cassandra Guan Mahmoud Zemmouri, 198 »Brown University Cinema’s Universal Image Economy: The Apophatic Kate Rennebohm Subject of Soviet Film Theory »Harvard University Mediating Reverse Ethnography: Chronique d’un été, Ellina Sattarova Edgar Morin, and Jean Epstein on Reviewing »University of Pittsburgh Filming the Death Agony of the Soviet Union: Necrorealism, Chernukha, and the Afterlife of Socialist Realism

31 Friday 28th » 15.45-17.30 NECS Conference K

7 8 War, Resistance, Trauma European Media Industries

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Matthew Croombs Eduard Cuelenaere »The University of Calgary »Ghent University The Militant Image Reconsidered: On René Vautier and Twice as Nice? Adopting the (Dutch-Flemish) Remake as the Work of History a Prism Ting-Ying Lin Olof Hedling »Goldsmiths, University of London »Lund University (Lunds universitet) Activism, Protest and Social Criticism in Contemporary “Co-opted” for national cultural prestige, economic Hong Kong Cinema growth, place promotion and structural economic change? Notes on the increas Miklos Saghy »University of Szeged Gabriele Mueller New Media Tactics in Holocaust Representation (Son of »York University, Toronto, Canada Saul) Boy 7 in Double Exposure: European Genre Cinema between Transnational Industry Practices and National Joshua Sperling Consumption »Oberlin College Real and Apparent Complexity in Iraq and Afghanistan Eszter Simor War Cinema »University of Edinburgh The Absurd as Subversive Engagement in Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope

9 10 Social Critique in Documentary Aesthetic Tactics Across the Arts Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Carlo Comanducci »Vistula University, Warsaw Charlotte Bosseaux “Harsh Varios Raw Misto”: Dabbling as an Aesthetic »University of Edinburgh Tactic in Rodolf Hervé’s Videos (1988-1996) User engagement and translation: Refecting on the role of translation in GBV documentaries. Chiara Grizzaf »IULM University, Milan Martina Olivero My Story Will Be Televised. Low Defnition Tactics in the »Université Paris 1 Work of Ross Sutherland A documentary tryptic on factory work. Sekula (1972), Farocki (1995), Joulé-Jousse (2015). Ana Maria Mauad »Universidade Federal Fluminense Raisa Sidenova Genevieve Naylor, an American photographer in Brazil, »Newcastle University 1941-1942 Poetic Documentary as a Tactic in Soviet Film Industry Alessandra Ronetti Jasper Stratil »Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / Scuola Normale »Freie Universität Superiore di Pisa Beyond doubt - tactics of ambivalence and appeal in true Chromo-tactics. Mental suggestion and viewer’s crime documentary engagement in Émile Cohl’s The Neo-Impressionist Painter (1910)

11 The Politics of Intermediality 1. Affective 15:45-18:30 Hypermediacies: Screens, Cameras and Human Interfaces Curating and Sharing the Data of Chair: Hajnal Király Media History »Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest A workshop with Eric Hoyt sponsored by Digital Cinema Studies Andrea Virginás »Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj- Napoca Electronic screens as surfaces of (collective) trauma in contemporary European flms 18.30-19.30 Judit Pieldner »Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Closing Session: Miercurea Ciuc

HoMER - Plenary Sessions HoMER - Plenary New Cinema History: Where Next? The Camera in Home Arrest. Tactics of Non-Cinema in Jafar Panahi’s Films Open discussion with Robert C. Allen, Daniel Biltereyst, Annete Kuhn, Richard Maltby & Melvyn Ágnes Karolina Bakk Stokes reflecting on the conference »Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest Total Immersion with Human Interface. Hypermediacies of VR-productions

32 Friday 28th » 17.45-19.00 NECS Conference L

1 2 Genre and Emotional Responses Feminist Fictions

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Massimo Locatelli Marija Laugalyte »Università Cattolica di Milano »University College Cork (Dis-)Engaging Bodies: the Emotionalized Refexivity of Working Women, Smartphones, Social Media: Female the Italian Giallo Networks in Contemporary TV Landi Raubenheimer Elizabeth Miller »University of Johannesburg »King’s College London Nostalgic dystopia: Johannesburg in District 9 and the Deeply Misogynistic or a Feminist Text?: Unravelling the use of visual efects meaning of Les Feux de la chandeleur (Serge Kober, 1972) Gerwin van der Pol »Mediastudies University of Amsterdam Maryn Wilkinson Film Genre Mix: when a mix leads to complex and »University of Amsterdam problematic spectators’ responses. WORKING IT OUT: The performance of labour and femininity in Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)

3 4 TrasformingQueer and Trans Reality: Media Screenwriting Tactics Southeast Asian Cinema and Development in Creative Documentary FilmmakingChair: TBD Chair: TBD Sara Janssen »University of Kent Lucio Crispino Queer Love on Screen: Documentary Impulse and »University of South Australia Utopian Longing in When We Are Together We Can A Clockwork Venus: “Rococo-esque” Surfaces, Skins and Be Everywhere Screens in Alex Garland’s ‘Ex Machina’ (2015) Harper Shalloe Philippa Lovatt »Brown University »University of St Andrews “I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter”: From Tactics of Production, Exhibition and Circulation: Gendered Afect to Biometric Capture Independent and Grassroots Film Culture in Southeast Asian Cinemas Eliza Steinbock »Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society Donatella Valente How to Respond to Hate and Ignorance: “Response »Birkbeck College, University of London Videos” by Transsexual, Trans* and Two-Spirit Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Conceptual Cinema as a Visual Activists in Canada Cinematic Trans-Media Experience

5 6 Social Engagement in TV Drama The Politics of Intermediality 2. Engaging the Picturesque and the Anti-Picturesque Chair: TBD Chair: Judit Pieldner »Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Larissa Christoforo Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania »Université de Montréal Appropriating foreign concepts: transmedia practices in Melinda Blos-Jani Brazilian TV fctions »Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj- Gert Jan Harkema Napoca, Romania »Stockholm University Precarious Aesthetic in Eastern European Nonfction Dark Side of Town: Nordic Noir’s Transnational Films Aesthetics in Dutch TV Crime Hajnal Kiraly Florian Vanlee »Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary »Ghent University Intermedial Iconography as Accent in Contemporary DISTINCTIVE QUEERS IN THE PARISH Strategies of Hungarian and Romanian Cinema distinction and LGBT+ representations in Flemish prestige Agnes Petho drama »Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj- Napoca, Romania The Politics of the Picturesque. The Photoflmic and the Posthuman

33 Friday 28th » 17.45-19.00 NECS Conference L

7 8 Strategies of Appropriation in Video Games Policies and Politics of Media Industries

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Hava Aldouby Giancarlo Grossi »Open University of Israel »Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan Experimental Filmmakers Going Digital: Ken Jacobs, Commoditizing Comedies. Genres and Funding Policies Ernie Gehr, Phil Solomon in Italian Film Industry (2004-2016) Jan-Hendrik Bakels Per Vesterlund »Freie Universität Berlin »University of Gävle Tactical subjectivity. Kinaestetic appropriation and Myglaren – Media Tactics in the Wake of the New strategies of auto-afectivity in video game practice Swedish Film Policy of 1963 Charlotte Courtois Vesi Vukovic »Paris 3 - La Sorbonne Nouvelle »University of Antwerp Visual engagment in adventure games: the little red Early Works: Does political engagement justify waistband for the spit contest in Monkey Island 2: representations of rape and murder?

9 10 Engaging New Cinema Audiences Pop Tactics

Chair: TBD Chair: TBD Maurizio Corbella Elena Caoduro »Università degli Studi di Milano »University of Bedfordshire This Must be the Stage: Tactics of Live Music Staging in Fashion mockumentaries: negotiating critical Italian Media Practices around ‘68 introspection and brand tactics Mariagrazia Fanchi Karin Fleck »Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano »Goethe University Frankfurt Grey Cinemas. Italian Elderly Viewers and Cinema’s Touching Records in Films Touch Points Joachim Schätz Marta Kaprzyk »Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of History and Society »University of Wrocław (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) Joke’s on you. Educational comedy and the matter of Transnational Film Production as a Tactic of Survival. accident prevention Spanish Coproductions in XXI Century Marta Kasprzak »University of Lodz, Poland From New Wave to contemporary French cinema. Diferent techniques of nonlinear narrative and its impact on reception process

Keynote 3 Cinema Ponrepo 20.00-1.00 Screenings Party 19.30-20.00 Main ConferenceVenue: Venue: Room 131 ClosingEscape remarks DeLuxe Rembrandtplein 11 1017 CT Amsterdam

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