Dear all,
The schedule for the Bill Douglas symposium on 23 September is now available below, with papers covering all aspects of Bill's work. The symposium marks 20 years since Bill's death and is being held in the Bill Douglas Centre, the museum in his name at the University of Exeter, which is based on the collection of cinematic artefacts he acquired with his friend Peter Jewell. The symposium is free - please register in advance however by emailing [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
BILL DOUGLAS SYMPOSIUM
Seminar Room A/B, Old Library, University of Exeter, EX4 4SB
09.45 Welcome
10.00 Keynote Presentation: Karen Lury (University of Glasgow) Cinephilia and the 'contingent performance' in Bill Douglas's "My Childhood" and Daniel Reeves's "Obsessive Becoming"
11.00 break
11.15 Brian Hoyle (University of Dundee) "'A Filmaker of Limited Capacity?': Bill Douglas's Unmade Scripts."
Jonny Murray (Edinburgh College of Art) "Their Childhood: Bill Douglas and 1970s Scottish Cinema"
12.15 Peter Jewell (Principal Donor of The Bill Douglas Centre) " A (Braggart's) Guide to the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection"
Film: "Charlie Chaplin Lived Here" Sean Martin presents a restored version of a never previously seen 8mm film made by Bill and Peter Jewell in 1966 with live commentary by Peter.
1.15 Lunch - with the opportunity to look at The Bill Douglas Centre museum
2.15 Sean Martin (Filmmaker and Author) Cinema and Pre-cinema in the Trilogy
Paul Newland (University of Aberystwyth) "Figures in a Landscape: Bill Douglas's 'Comrades'"
3.45 break
4.00 Andrew Noble (Ex- University of Strathclyde) "Reflections on Bill Douglas: Interviews from 'The Lanternist's Account'"
5.00 Reception
How to find us
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/bdc/visiting_centre.shtml
www.exeter.ac.uk/bdc<http://www.exeter.ac.uk/bdc> www.billdouglas.org<http://www.billdouglas.org/>
Phil Wickham
Curator
The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
University of Exeter
Old Library
Prince of Wales Road
Exeter
Devon
EX4 4SB
01392 724321
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