Hi,

In the last month I have seen, strangely, three British films at the cinema and have been struck by the fact that although they are stylistically very different they all seem to share a common theme, that of an isolated individual who must come to terms with subjectivity through, what we might term, ethical consideration. The films are all set on these islands but in very different social conditions; 'Under The Skin' (set in Scotland), 'Calvary' (set in the Irish Republic) and 'Locke' (set in England). Each film's narrative structure seems to follow the classical mode but unlike its Hollywood counterpart where there is usually the double narrative articulation (DNA?) of action and romance each of these films trust themselves to deal with the philosophical implications of, what we used to term, bourgeois individualism and to a degree anomie. Is this becoming a trend in British cinema? I'm also thinking about films such as 'Helen' and 'Shell'.

Alan

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Topics in this special issue:

1. Parallax Views of Moving Image Practice 2
2. Parallax Views 2 May 30th Moving Image Research Centre UEL
3. Aniki: Call for Papers on Expanded Cinema
4. Symposium: Holding Things in Common
5. Extended Deadline – May 12 -- Interactive Narratives, New Media and Social
Engagement International Conference

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:06:02 +0100
From: Steven Eastwood <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Parallax Views of Moving Image Practice 2

Parallax Views of Moving Image Practice 2
Friday 30 May 2014 9am-7pm
Moving Image Research Centre
University of East London
Cyprus DLR

The event is hosted by the Moving Image Research Centre and builds on the success of Parallax Views 1 (May 2013) in creating a platform for practitioners, theorists, historians, exhibitors and organisations to share ideas and concepts, and to break down binaries associated with the moving image, such as documentary/fiction, art/industry, theory/practice.

Confirmed Speakers:
Keynote, Stella Bruzzi (Warwick)
Helen de Witt (BFI), Susanna Chisholm (Film & Video Umbrella), Felicia Chan (Manchester Univ), James Hellings (BIAD), Lindsay Hallam (UEL), Ole Hagen (Artist-filmmaker), Miranda Pennell (Artist-filmmaker, Westminster), Johannes Maier (Artist-filmmaker, UEL), Maia Conran (Artist-filmmaker, UEL), Faisal Abdu'Allah (Artist-filmmaker, UEL).

Plus a short film screening.

The Moving Image Research Centre has six areas of research, listed below. In addition, we have identified panel themes.

Moving Image Research Centre research areas:
- Artists' Moving Image (gallery practices, multi screen installation, artists' feature film, sound art, film & performance art, materiality and process, digital/analogue)
- Historiography (particularly British cinema and Hindi cinema, film archives, the cinematic essay, the concept of the extra)
- Counter cultural cinema (cult film, occult film, film collectives, guerrilla filmmaking, cinema of transgression, underground film, film activism, doc-fiction hybrids, De Sade studies)
- Contextual and relational practices (site specific film, use of reenactment, landscape film, new education paradigms)
- Inference and Affect (new narrative iterations, Deleuze studies, autism and cinema, film and game culture, time-image)
- Film and Ethics (advocacy, agency, encountering taboo, minor cinema, the marginal, borders, new ethnographies)

- Reworking the canon
- Transworld Cinemas
- The occult as a humanity
- Acts of translation and interpretation
- Ethics and the post-other

The event is free and open to all but spaces are limited.
Please RSVP to: [log in to unmask]

For more information about the Moving Image Research Centre and both this year's and last year's symposia, visit:
http://www.uel.ac.uk/mirc/

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:07:47 +0100
From: Steven Eastwood <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Parallax Views 2 May 30th Moving Image Research Centre UEL

Parallax Views of Moving Image Practice 2
Friday 30 May 2014 9am-7pm
Moving Image Research Centre
University of East London
Cyprus DLR

The event is hosted by the Moving Image Research Centre and builds on the success of Parallax Views 1 (May 2013) in creating a platform for practitioners, theorists, historians, exhibitors and organisations to share ideas and concepts, and to break down binaries associated with the moving image, such as documentary/fiction, art/industry, theory/practice.

Confirmed Speakers:
Keynote, Stella Bruzzi (Warwick)
Helen de Witt (BFI), Susanna Chisholm (Film & Video Umbrella), Felicia Chan (Manchester Univ), James Hellings (BIAD), Lindsay Hallam (UEL), Ole Hagen (Artist-filmmaker), Miranda Pennell (Artist-filmmaker, Westminster), Johannes Maier (Artist-filmmaker, UEL), Maia Conran (Artist-filmmaker, UEL), Faisal Abdu'Allah (Artist-filmmaker, UEL).

Plus a short film screening.

The Moving Image Research Centre has six areas of research, listed below. In addition, we have identified panel themes.

Moving Image Research Centre research areas:
- Artists' Moving Image (gallery practices, multi screen installation, artists' feature film, sound art, film & performance art, materiality and process, digital/analogue)
- Historiography (particularly British cinema and Hindi cinema, film archives, the cinematic essay, the concept of the extra)
- Counter cultural cinema (cult film, occult film, film collectives, guerrilla filmmaking, cinema of transgression, underground film, film activism, doc-fiction hybrids, De Sade studies)
- Contextual and relational practices (site specific film, use of reenactment, landscape film, new education paradigms)
- Inference and Affect (new narrative iterations, Deleuze studies, autism and cinema, film and game culture, time-image)
- Film and Ethics (advocacy, agency, encountering taboo, minor cinema, the marginal, borders, new ethnographies)

- Reworking the canon
- Transworld Cinemas
- The occult as a humanity
- Acts of translation and interpretation
- Ethics and the post-other

The event is free and open to all but spaces are limited.
Please RSVP to: [log in to unmask]

For more information about the Moving Image Research Centre and both this year's and last year's symposia, visit:
http://www.uel.ac.uk/mirc/

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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:37:57 +0100
From: Susana Viegas <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Aniki: Call for Papers on Expanded Cinema

Dear Colleagues,

this call for submissions might interest you and/or your contacts.

Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image (ISSN 2183-1750) accepts
original essays on, among others, the following areas: cinema, television,
media archaeology, video, digital cultures, sound and the moving image,
history and theory of the moving image. It is an open access, peer reviewed
online journal that publishes original research essays in the fields of the
moving image from diverse methodological perspectives. A bi-annual
publication (January/July), this journal publishes essays (with double
blind peer review), interviews, book reviews and conference reports, as
well as critical reviews of art exhibitions and international film
festivals.

For the third issue, which will be published in January, 2015, Aniki aims
to publish a special section, to be edited by Susana Viegas, on *Expanded
Cinema*.

Peter Greenaway has once said that cinema was dead, challenging filmmakers
and filmgoers to search for new possibilities to contemporary cinematic
experience, outside the limits of the classic screen format. Essays on
expanded cinema and performative installations, video art and video
artists, narrativity and nonnarrativity, moving images and institutional
art space, should be send by *June 30, 2014.*

The call for papers for Aniki's different sections is constantly open, and
registration and login are required to submit items online and also to
check the status of current submissions (www.aim.org.pt/aniki).

Please consult the Author Guidelines and Sections Policies before
submitting your complete paper. Please visithttp://www.aim.org.pt/aniki for
further details.

Best regards,

Susana Viegas
Philosophy of Language Institute
New University of Lisbon

International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film
(link<http://www.philosophyfilmlisbon.net/>
)

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Aniki<http://www.aim.org.pt/aniki/>
# CVDeGóis<http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=8331942135796713>

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:10:30 +0100
From: Richard Evans <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Symposium: Holding Things in Common

You are warmly invited to attend the postgraduate and early career
symposium */Holding Things in Common: the vernacular, everyday objects
and memory /at Birkbeck Cinema, Monday 12th May.*

The day consists of three panels composed of a wide range of promising
papers (see schedule below). Each panel is followed by Q&A.

Writer and broadcaster Dr Matthew Sweet will give the keynote address,
"God save Mrs Mop and good old Mother Riley": ITMA, the Kinks and the
English Speaking Vernacular.

To book your free place and for all the details, please go to
http://goo.gl/lC4I52.

Registration is from 8.45 am, the event begins sharp at 9.20 am, ending
at 5 pm. A drinks reception follows the formal close.

Full schedule:

8.45am: Registration, Tea & Coffee

9.20am: Introduction

9.30am: Panel 1: Heirlooms, Loss and Literary Objects

Aimee Gasston, Short things: lively objects in the stories of Katherine
Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

Tom Hendry, Myth, Legend and Dust: Cormac McCarthy and the loss of the
vernacular

Elisa Jochum, Women's Heirlooms in Cinema: Materiality, Memory and
"Herstory"

11am: Break

11.15am: Panel 2: Cultural Memory, Cultural Production

Christopher Gonzalez-Crane, Deliberate Culture: Los Angeles, Charles
Lummis and 'The Land of Sunshine'

Sonya Chenery, The role of vernacular and everyday objects and practices
in arts-based cultural and social remembrance

12.45pm: Lunch

2pm: Panel 3: Lightbulbs, Allotments and Digital Grammatisation

Grace Halden, Light Bulbs: Theories and Conspiracies and Representation

Dr Katrin Schreiter, Cultivating the Past: Allotment Gardens and Memory
in East and West Germany

Dr Daniel Strutt, Digital Grammatisation: The Affective Synthesis of
Reality by Digital Screen Media

3.30pm: Tea & Coffee

3.50pm: Keynote Address

Dr Matthew Sweet, "God save Mrs Mop and good old Mother Riley": ITMA,
the Kinks and the English Speaking Vernacular

5pm: Close followed by Drinks Reception

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MPhil/PhD student in Film Studies
Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies
Birkbeck, University of London

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Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 17:25:01 -0400
From: Hudson Moura <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Extended Deadline – May 12 -- Interactive Narratives, New Media and Social Engagement International Conference

Apologies for cross posting.

*Extended Deadline – May 12, 2014*

*Call for Papers:* *Interactive Narratives, New Media and Social Engagement
*

*October 24-25, 2014 University of Toronto*

An interdisciplinary conference for researchers and practitioners

The *call for papers* *has been extended*, so you still have time to send
your abstract.

How has the digital screen changed our world in general and narrative and
visual arts in particular is the broad focus of the second Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto and BRAFFTV Film and
Media international Conference.

We are interested, for instance, in the evolution of narrative practices
from text-based literature to the advent of the digital revolution as
storytelling moves from literacy to so-called post-literacy.

The prevalence of new interactive digital narrative in all areas from
games, to literature, to films, to video art has resulted in new forms of
storytelling and, accordingly, provoked new practices of reading that
transforms readers/viewers into active collaborators.

We are interested in exploring transmedia, intermediality, the role of
social media and digital globalization as well as narratives in games and
graphic novels. Also, the impact of the digital screen on art and new
exhibition practices.

Physical public space is increasingly being substituted or augmented by
virtual space through digital screens (e.g. video, film, computer). What
effect do these new developments have on social space, seen here as
encompassing both physical public spaces (streets, hotels, coffee shops) as
well as virtual space (YouTube, Vine, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Orkut,
etc.)? How do these novel practices effect previously clearly demarcated
frontiers between the public and the private?

Throughout the world, from Brazil to Turkey to Canada, we have recently
witness the influence of social media on political participation. How have
these new platforms engendered innovative forms of expression?

The Conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and
theorists for a two-day conference at Victoria College at the University of
Toronto on October 24-25. The presented papers will be evaluated for
possible inclusion in a special issue of a journal on the proceedings.

The following key topics/areas will be emphasized during the conference:

1. Intermediality, Transmedia and Remediation

2. Expanded Cinema and Digital Screen Aesthetics

3. Transnational Cinema and International Co-Productions

4. Digital Animation and Games: Narrative and Interactivity

5. Snack Media, Mobile Screens, Micro Movie, and Microblogging

6. Social Media Engagement and New Technologies

7. Hacktivism and Political Engagement

8. Digital Art and Literature (eBooks, eReaders)

9. Communication and New Media

SUBMITTING PROPOSALS:

Send an Abstract (between 180 and 300 words in length including the
research objectives, theoretical framework and methodology) and Brief
Bio-CV (100 words maximum) by May 12, 2014 to
[log in to unmask] proposal must include title, name(s),
affiliation, institutional
address and email addresses of the author(s).

Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by participants. The
organizers will, on request, provide the necessary letters for the
purposes of issuing visas to foreign visitors.

Email Contact: [log in to unmask]

Further information on our previous conference visit the websites:

http://www.brafftv.com/en/conference.html

http://spanport.utoronto.ca/news/brafftv-video

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Sessional Instructor
University of Toronto
http://utoronto.academia.edu/HudsonMoura
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