With apologies for cross-postings:
Following on from the success of ‘Oilscapes’, the Film & Visual Culture Research Group will be hosting ‘Film Farm’, the second of its series of workshops in the ‘Image Ecologies’ research strand, on June 12th.
This workshop explores the relations between animal life and the moving
image, with a particular focus on the place of farm animals in film. The
workshop asks how different dynamics of (re)production - of images, of
animals - converge within the circulation of global agri-capital. Yet it
also asks broader questions about the relations between cinematic and
nonhuman worlds, and about the ethics and politics of images of animal
life.
Speakers:
Dr Anat Pick (Queen Mary), 'Animal Life in the Cinematic Umwelt'
Professor Claire Molloy (Edge Hill), 'Industrialized food and the politics of
pleasure'
Dr Laura McMahon (Gonville & Caius, Cambridge), 'Screening Pigs:
Moving Images, Materiality and the Production of Species'
Mr Chris Heppell (Aberdeen), ‘The Withdrawal of Sense in Michelangelo Frammartino's Le
Quattro Volte (2010)'
The workshop will run from 10am to 5pm in the Craig Suite in the Sir Duncan
Rice Library. There will be lunch, as well as tea and coffee at relevant
intervals.
If you are interested in attending the workshop (it is free), then
please email me, [log in to unmask], as places are limited.
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