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Continuity and Innovation: Contemporary Film Form and Film Criticism 5th – 7th September 2008, University of Reading Film Conference REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL 28th JULY 2008 We are delighted to announce that award winning German director Birgit Grosskopf will be discussing her work at the conference. There will be a screening of Birgit’s debut feature film Prinzessin (2006), which has won various prizes including: German Independence Award at the Oldenburg Film Festival (2006), the Saarland Minister President’s Award at the Max Ophüls Film Festival (2006), Edinburgh Film Festival First Steps Award for best German debut feature (2006). She is also the director of several short films: Babies in Pockets (1999), The Pilot (2000), Live Boys (2001), Tabula Rasa (2003). Further details of other practitioners discussing their work will follow. Confirmed Keynote speakers are Gilberto Perez, Douglas Pye and Adrian Martin. This conference seeks to consider the critical challenges contemporary film form poses for us as film critics and theorists, in an approach rooted in the detail of the film text itself. In addition, the conference wishes to reflect and engage with the diversity of contemporary aesthetic choices and filmmaking practices. On the one hand, the conference will explore the continuities and innovations in contemporary film style, to move towards an account of contemporary cinema’s aesthetic practice and the ways in which these formal elements shape the production of meaning. On the other hand, the conference will provide an important opportunity to explore and extend the continuities and innovations possible in contemporary film criticism. In addition to the familiar pattern of panel discussions and plenaries, the conference will include workshops in which speakers will present frameworks for analysis of the detail of a movie, as an introduction to discussion. Titles of films to be discussed at the conference will be circulated in advance. A draft programme will be available before 28th July. Registration forms can be downloaded from the conference website: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ftt/research/ftt-continuityandinnovation.asp Enquiries should be directed to the conference organisers Lisa Purse and John Gibbs at [log in to unmask] * * Film-Philosophy salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy online: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] **