Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting. Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submissions to the
Screenworks special issue on radical film is Tuesday 31 January. Details below.
Please direct all queries to [log in to unmask].
Best wishes,
Steve
Presence
Call for Practice –
Screenworks special issue
Aesthetics/Politics/Activism/Art: What is Radical Film?
This special issue of the re-launched
Screenworks, the online journal of screen media practice research, invites all practice researchers with an interest in radicalism and the moving image to submit works that explore the multiple interpretations of ‘radicalism’.
Derived from
radix, the Latin for root, the word ‘radical’ is has long been used to describe the politics and aesthetics of a wide variety of moving image practices, from experimental film and video work to newsreel, documentary and fiction film. Politically, its
most enduring context has been that of the left and various strands of socialism, anarchism and environmentalism, but radicalism can refer equally to the politics of the far right or, as has been the case in more recent years, Islamic extremism. Whatever the
context, in the mainstream media ‘radicalism’ is almost always used as a pejorative. Yet profound interventions or fundamental departures from unsatisfactory norms can be positive, creating the spaces for disruption and change that can, as John Holloway (2010)
puts it, “crack” the status quo, enable new ideas to flourish, and transform the utopian into the pragmatic.
This special issue is dedicated to screen-based practice-research work that engages with the theme of radicalism from any of
these competing and sometime contradictory meanings, either formally and/or in terms of subject-matter. The
deadline for submissions is January 31
for publication in May 2017. Selected work will also be eligible for entry into a special practice-as-research strand at Bristol Radical Film Festival 2017.
Submissions must comprise two parts: 1) the work itself, with a link to its Vimeo page provided in the Submission Form; and
2) a completed Submission form. For more information on the submissions process and to access the submission form please visit the Screenworks website at
http://screenworks.org.uk/submissions.
To contact the Screenworks editorial team with any queries please email [log in to unmask].
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Dr Steve Presence
Research Fellow in Film and Television
Department of Arts and Cultural Industries
Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education
University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)