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PRESS RELEASE - VERTIGO MAGAZINE
'Invaluable independent film magazine ... eclectic and informed' Time Out
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Vertigo's next issue comes out in January!
A broad range of articles address the question 'What and where is cinema in
the UK?' - What production is sustained by the dominant funding culture?
What new initiatives in Scotland and in Yorkshire? What is coming to us
from the web? Why are expectations of shorts and music video so limited? In
the aftermath of September 11th, is British television still creating the
world in its own image?
Vertigo exists to promote independence, innovation and cultural diversity.
Using articles, cartoons and picture-spreads Vertigo engages with the
aesthetics of film, television and the moving image, giving a broad
political and cultural context to today's independent production,
distribution and exhibition.
We aim to establish links between a variety of audiences: young and old,
cine-philes and industry practitioners, the politically committed, vanguard
artists and documentary film-makers, historians and archivists,
commissioning editors and cultural analysts. We introduce new work and
encourage readers to think again about work they already know.
In our last issue film-makers, including Jon Jost, John Maybury, and
Patrick Keiller, consider the relevance of Jean-Luc Godard in the run up to
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FREE FILM SCREENINGS!
The Film Studies Programme at King's College London is presenting a series
of free film screenings during the Lent term.
Monday evenings will be devoted to a series on the American gangster film;
Tuesday evenings will be a repertory night.
Screenings begin at 6.15 pm in the New Theatre (room 2B18) on the Strand
Campus; doors open at 6.05 pm. All films are shown in 35mm unless otherwise
noted.
All University of London students and staff are welcome. Come early.
Seating will be limited to available places. Please feel free to forward
this message.
MOB CULTURE: THE AMERICAN GANGSTER FILM
MONDAYS
14 January The Godfather (USA 1972, Francis Ford Coppola, 175 min.)
21 January Underworld (USA 1927, Josef von Sternberg, 80 min. VHS)
28 January Public Enemy (USA1931, William A. Wellman, 83 min)
4 February Scarface (USA 1932, Howard Hawks, 93 min)
11 February The Killers (USA 1946, Robert Siodmak, 105 min.)
25 February The Godfather II (USA 1975, Francis Ford Coppola, 200 min.)
4 March Goodfellas (USA 1990, Martin Scorsese, 146 min.)
11 March Boyz N the Hood (USA 1991, John Singleton, 107 min.)
18 March Donnie Brasco (USA 1997, Mike Newell, 127 min.)
REPERTORY NIGHTS
TUESDAYS
15 January Rear Window (USA 1954, Alfred Hitchcock, 112 min.)
22 January Scream (USA 1996, Wes Craven, 111 min.)
29 January Some Like it Hot (USA 1959, Billy Wilder, 120 min.)
5 February Late Spring (Japan 1949, Yasujiro Ozu, 108 min., 16mm)
12 February Camera (Canada 2000, David Cronenberg, 6 min.) and Dead Ringers
(Canada/USA1988, David Cronenberg 116 min.)
26 February Je t'aime John Wayne (UK 2000, Toby MacDonald, 9 min.) and The
Eclipse (Italy/France 1962, Michelangelo Antonioni, 123 min.)
5 March Chronique d'un été (France 1961, Jean Rouch/Edgar Morin, 85 min)
12 March Meshes of the Afternoon (USA 1943, Maya Deren, 18 min., 16mm);
Desist Film (USA 1959, Stan Brakhage, 9 min.); Wavelength (USA/Canada 1967,
Michael Snow, 45 min., 16mm); and Scorpio Rising (USA 1963, Kenneth Anger,
31 min., 16mm)
19 March The Attendant (UK 1992, Isaac Julien, 8 min.) and Orlando (UK
1992, Sally Potter, 93 min., 16mm)
Film Studies Programme
King's College London
The Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Enquiries: 020 7848 2315
King's Film Studies on the Web:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/filmstudies
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From: Dylan McGinty <[log in to unmask]>
MILLE GILLES
A Thousand Gilles
A Film by Ijsbrand van Veelen
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th
Century. A popular university lecturer and prolific writer, his two most
well known books, both written with Felix Guattari, were "The Anti-Oedipus"
(1972) and "A Thousand Plateaus" (1980). His theories in the
inter-connected areas of art, literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis
reverberated far beyond academia. "Perhaps one day, this century will be
known as Deluzian," wrote Michel Foucault.
From "nomadism" and "deterritorialization" to "Rhizomes," MILLE GILLES
explores some of the main areas of Deleuze's post-structural,
anti-hierarchical, ideas and teachings. But going beyond that specific
discussion, and maybe more significantly, the film also examines how
Deleuze and his ideas inspired people around the world, in many different
disciplines and fields of endeavor.
Including a rare (short) sequence with Deleuze himself, MILLE GILLES
includes interviews and encounters with eight creative people who draw on
Deleuze and his work. Architects Greg Lynne and Lars Spuybroek, musicians
D.J. Spooky and David Shea, artist Lydia Dona, designer and software
developer Bernard Cache, management consultant and organizational and
economic theorist Jules Koster, and Professor and writer on film and media
Patricia Pisters. They discuss not just "what did Deleuze mean," but what
impact his ideas have had on them, and their different fields.
When Deleuze died, Roger-Pol Droit wrote in Le Monde: "No one knows what
distant posterity will remember of a body of work that contemporaries
probably understand only a little. Thought, with Deleuze, is the experience
of life rather than reason."
While it may not yet be possible to say what people will remember of
Deleuze's work, with MILLE GILLES A Thousand Gilles we do get an approach
to what has been made of it.
Color / Produced 1997 / Released 2002 / 44 Minutes
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A new website has been launched at
http://www-scam.cowan.edu.au/cinema
providing a searchable database of all sites where films have been
commercially screened in Western Australia, from 1896 to the present day.
This includes hard-top cinemas, open air cinemas, drive-ins, and all the
other places (such as Mechanics Institutes or Town Halls) which have been
built for other purposes but have served as cinemas at some time in their
history.
Other sites with similar interests are invited to make themselves known,
so they can be added to the links page.
All the best for a happy and more peaceful New Year,
DR INA BERTRAND
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ANNOUNCING:
from the Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image
_The Journal of Moving Image Studies_
http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwcsm/index.htm
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Paper submissions are invited for a session on 'Gilles Deleuze' at the
fourth international Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference June 29-July
2 in Tampere, Finland. A copy of the session abstract, with full contact
information, is below. For those of you who want to contribute to this
session, please send an abstract of maximum 150 words to the organiser, Rick
Dolphijn ([log in to unmask]). The deadline for the submission of papers is
31 January 2002. Please note that no second copy should be sent to the
Conference Office. For further information, look at www.crossroads2002.com.
Gilles Deleuze
Known best for concepts like 'rhizome', 'nomadology', 'smooth and
striated space', Deleuze has been most
insightful in trying to focus on empirical situations from a most
abstract point of view. Very critical of
generalisations, identifications and transcendence, Deleuze talks of
processes, of what happens between
the 'bodies'. Sometimes generalising, sometimes subjectifying, but
processes all the same. Deleuze's
thoughts have been very influential in many different fields of
cultural theory and philosophy. From
Foucault to Hardt & Negri, many scholars have been influenced by the
way he wrote on cinema, the
history of philosophy, art and feminism, to name a few of his
interests. In this session we will see in what
way Deleuze's thoughts have been insightful in some of these fields.
However, we are also interested in
how his thoughts can be useful in other areas of research, such as
research on 'everyday life' subjects
like food culture or fashion. This session on Gilles Deleuze is aimed
at all scholars who are interested in
'doing' philosophy, as Rajchman put it, who are interested in how
most abstract thought can help us see
our (scholarly) practices in a different way. To put it another way,
in this session we want to experience
Deleuze's claim that philosophy equals life
Organiser:
Rick Dolphijn
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Brg. Oud Laan 50, p.o. box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
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From: gloria monti <[log in to unmask]>
Werner Herzog, Victor Erice and Chen Kaige have committed to
participate in what is shaping up to be one of the most promising
anthology films ever planned. Ten Minutes Older, comprised of
ten-minute shorts on the subject of time, already has Bernardo
Bertolucci, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch,
Spike Lee, Aki Kaurismaki, and Jiri Menzel slated to contribute.
Tentative plans are to release two feature-length compilations,
expected to be ready for next year's Cannes Film Festival.
Gloria
There's a webpage about "Ten Minutes Older" at:
http://www.tenminutesolder.com/
There's some information about this film at Wim Wender's official page:
http://www.wim-wenders.com/news_reel/2001/index0111.htm
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52. BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
(February 6-17, 2002)
Retrospective 2002: EUROPEAN 60s - Revolt, Fantasy & Utopia
Protest, upheaval, departure from the past, Junger Film & Nouvelle
Vague. These are synonyms for a cultural and political movement which
dominated large parts of Europe in the 60s. This year's film
historical Retrospective will re-trace European cinema of this
period. Conceived and organized by the Filmmuseum Berlin - Deutsche
Kinemathek, the Retrospective will present some 60 films from Western
and Eastern Europe: from Autorenkino to a selection of trivial and
popular film genres, like spaghetti Westerns, films which shaped the
cinema of this turbulent political and cultural decade. Classics are
to be found next to a large number of rediscoveries, films seemingly
made "for the moment" only, and productions which fell victim to
state censorship.
Images from the Spring of Prague and from Paris in May '68 are part
of our collective memory of the 60s. Europe was undergoing changes.
The physiognomies of its societies and their environments were
evolving new contours. Youthful subcultures were the themes in the
media. The rising globalization of the entertainment factories,
especially in the fields of film and music, was spreading a new and
unbounded sense of life.
What triggered this general mood of upheaval? What were the issues
and with whom was one quarreling? What were the reactions? These
films, made throughout Europe in the 60s, also explore these
questions. The directors and authors include:
Jean-Luc Godard, Lindsay Anderson, Alexander Kluge, Dusan Makavejev, Bo
Widerberg, Vera Chytilov…, Michelangelo Antonioni, J½rgen Bñttcher, Jerzy
Skolimowski, Carlos Saura, Mikl¤s Jancs¤, among others. From the stance of
film history, a close look reveals that alongside the divergent courses
which history took in each country, there is a tendency toward a completely
other and all-European history of mentalities and thought. Things in common
play a much larger role than differences: there is indeed perhaps something
like a European cultural history - or a "true story" of European cinema.
The Retrospective will be complemented by a comprehensive partnership
which the Berlinale and the Filmmuseum Berlin - Deutsche Kinemathek
has entered into with 3sat Cultural Broadcasting Program. Coinciding
with the beginning of the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival,
3sat will broadcast 40 European feature films under the title
"European 60s" that are thematically related to the Retrospective and
so extend the program in content over an entire year. The
Retrospective of the Berlinale and 3sat Cultural Broadcasting Program
are thus visibly focusing on a cooperation in the interest of
European cinema.
On occasion of the Retrospective, a book will be published (edition
text + kritik) in which a detailed essay and documents of the times
merge in a montage, illuminating a topography of European film
culture in the 60s.
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From: Adam Knee <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Asian Cinema--Call for Papers
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Submissions are sought for a planned special issue of Tamkang Review on
Asian Cinema. The Review is a quarterly of comparative studies of Chinese
and other literatures, published in English by Tamkang University in Taiwan.
Essays taking a comparative perspective are especially welcome, although
all essays on the general theme will be considered. Manuscripts should be
5000-7000 words and use MLA citation format. Send your submission both in
hard copy and as a Word-readable file (on disk or through e-mail) to the
issueís guest editor: Adam Knee; Mansfield University; Department of
Languages and Literature; Mansfield, PA 16933; [log in to unmask] Deadline
March 15, 2002. (Those submitting from overseas may omit the hard copy.)
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Issue number 13 of _Screening the past_ is will be available, from Monday 17
December, online at:
<http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/>
This issue contains a themed section on 'Women, memory and new media' and
the second section of the 'Auteurism 2001' theme which was the subject of
issue 12, along with an article related to some aspects of the first theme.
Among the articles in this issue are the following:
Women, autobiography and new media, edited by Peter Hughes.
*Memory in ruins: the woman filmmaker in her father's cinema by Felicity
Collins
*Forgetting as a representational strategy: Erasing the past in Girl from
Moush and Passing DRAMA by Robin Curtis
*Performing memory: compensation and redress in contemporary feminist
first-person documentary by Julia Erhart
*What should I make up? An inquiry into autobiography. Interviews with Sarah
Jane Lapp, Michele Fleming, and Amie Siegel by Jenny Perlin
*Video diaries: questions of authenticity and fabrication by Maria Pini
*Dear diary revisited: transforming personal archives, Flag and Trick or
drink by Elayne Zalis
A separate article on the theme of memory and new media:
*Nocturnal kinship by George Kouvaros
Auterism 2001, edited by Adrian Martin
*A couch in New York: Chantal Akerman and sex in the city by Rose Capp
*Going my way by Tag Gallagher
*Mizoguchi and freedom by Tag Gallagher
*Choreography of desire: analysing Kinuoy Tanaka's acting in Mizoguchi's
films by Chika Kinoshita
*A strange sun: cinema and theatre in John Cassavetes' The killing of a
Chinese bookie and Opening Night by George Kouvaros
*Joe Dante's American apocalypse by Bill Krohn
*Paul Verhoeven and his hollow men by Angela Ndalianis
*Lost in paradise: the cinema of Jim Jarmusch by Fiona A. Villella
And a special tribute:
*A pen with wings: a tribute Erik Barnouw, 1908-2001 by Patricia R.
Zimmermann
With book reviews by Jonathan Auerbach, David Boyd, Mary Debrett, Leanne
Downing, Mark Freeman, Tim Groves, D.B. Jones, Peter Limbrick, Alex
MacDonald, Brian McFarlane, Harriet Margolis, Michael Paris, Inge
Pruks-Izzo, Bill Routt, Fiona A. Villella, and Brian Yecies.
Issue 14 is due to go online in mid 2002 and will be an unthemed issue.
Although most of the articles for issue 14 are currently in process, there
is still space for one or two more articles. Submissions should be made to
the editor at <[log in to unmask]>.
In the links section there is a new link to the online version of JUMP CUT
<http://www.ejumpcut.org/>
All the best,
P.
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(Dr) Peter Hughes Postgraduate Co-ordinator, Media Studies Program, La
Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.
ph: +61 3 9479 3065 (w), fax: +61 3 9479 3638 (w)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/comace/mediahome.html
Screening the past. An international, refereed electronic journal of visual
media and history:
http:// www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast
It's almost here: Visible Evidence IX in Brisbane Dec 17-20
http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/cmp/ve9.html
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From: Gerard Greenway <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ToC: ANGELAKI 6.3: General Issue 2001
ANGELAKI
journal of the theoretical humanities
"Fearless and inventive, this journal has reset the agenda for the
theoretical humanities."
-- Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California, USA
Angelaki 6.3, the 2001 general issue, is now out. Contents list below.
The deadline for submission of material for consideration for the 2002
general issue is February 28.
Special issues published this year: _Subaltern Affect_ (6.1, edited by
J. Beasley-Murray and A. Moreiras), _Gift, Theft, Apology_ (6.2, edited
by C.V. Boundas).
Thank you -- Gerard Greenway, managing editor
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725X.html
volume 6 number 3 december 2001
GENERAL ISSUE 2001
issue editor: Pelagia Goulimari
CONTENTS
Editorial Introduction
-- Pelagia Goulimari
Never Before, Always Already: Notes on Agamben and the Category of
Relation
-- Alexander Garcia Duttmann
Photography and the Exposure of Community: Sharing Nan Goldin and Jean-
Luc Nancy
-- Louis Kaplan (photographs by Nan Goldin)
Cave Paintings and Wall Writings: Blanchot's Signature
-- Lars Iyer
To Follow a Snail: Experimental Empiricism and the Ethic of Minor
Literature
-- Peter Trnka
Placing the Void: Badiou on Spinoza
-- Sam Gillespie
In the Space of the Cursor: An Introduction to John Kinsella's "A New
Lyricism"
-- Philip Mead
A New Lyricism: Some Early Thoughts on Linguistic Disobedience
-- John Kinsella
Foucault's Evasive Maneuvers: Nietzsche, Interpretation, Critique
-- Samuel A. Chambers
The Aesthetics of Affect: Thinking Art Beyond Representation
-- Simon O'Sullivan
Judgment is Not an Exit: Toward an Affective Criticism of Violence with
_American Psycho_
-- Marco Abel
The Comedy of Philosophy: Bataille, Hegel and Derrida
-- Lisa Trahair
Humanism After Auschwitz: Reflections on Jean Amery's _Freitod_
-- Andrew McCann
Human Rights, Humanism and Desire
-- Costas Douzinas
.... DEBATE* ....
Just Hoaxing: A Reply to Margaret Soltan's "Hoax Poetry in America"
(Angelaki 5.1: _Poets on the Verge_)
-- Bill Freind
The Bicameral Mind: Response to Bill Freind's "Just Hoaxing"
-- Margaret Soltan
* We encourage the submission of responses to work published in
the journal. These will be considered for publication in the
annual general issue.
_Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities_ publishes two special
issues and one general/open issue per volume. For full details on
_Angelaki_, submission information and contents listings of volumes 2 to
6, please visit the journal's website at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725X.html
The journal has been available online as well as in print since volume 5
(2000). An electronic sample is available at the website. Click on the
sample copy link in the listing at the top of the home page
(registration required).
Gerard Greenway
managing editor
A N G E L A K I
journal of the theoretical humanities
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From: Piotr Sitarski <[log in to unmask]>
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference
Challenge of computer games
University of Lodz, Poland
25 ñ 27 October 2002
Department of Media and Audio-Visual Culture,
University of Lodz, invites submissions of papers
examining the phenomenon of computer games. The
conference will provide an opportunity to discuss
computer games in the broad context of sociology,
aesthetics, psychology, pedagogy, and other areas.
We also welcome interdisciplinary papers dealing with
computer games design and with the economic
aspects of the computer games market.
The following issues are suggested for discussion:
* History and prehistory of computer games;
* Computer games and traditional media;
* Social impact of computer games;
* Computer games in global and local cultures;
* Sociology of gamers and gamersí subcultures
* Production and distribution of computer games;
* Ethics and axiology of computer games: violence in
games;
* Gender and computer games;
* Narratology of computer games;
* Interactivity;
* Multi-user games.
A selection of the conference papers will be
published. The language of the conference will be
English (with Polish translation). Presentations
should last not more than 30 minutes.
Conference fee is 50 USD (not including
accommodation or meals).
If you wish to propose a paper, please send an
abstract of no more than 300 words together with a
short biographical note by 15th February 2002 to:
Piotr Sitarski
University of Lodz
Department of Media and Audio-Visual Culture
ul. Sienkiewicza 21, 90-114 Lodz, Poland
tel/fax: 48 42 639 ***********************************
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