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FUNDING FILM + THEATRICALITY Tuesday 12 June 4.00-7.00pm Whitechapel Gallery London, E1 7QX Funding Film (4.00-5.30pm): BEN ROBERTS (BFI Lottery Film Fund) AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA (Academic and Filmmaker) + On Theatricality (5.30-7.00pm): MATHEW ABBOTT (Federation University, Australia): "Display in Human Art and the Aesthetic Lives of Animals" ADRIAN KEAR (Uni of the Arts, London): "Theatre against itself: performance, politics and the limits of theatricality" This event is FREE to attend, but you must register for the event at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-funding-theatricality-tickets-46398638577 This symposium is part of an AHRC funded project on 'Theatricality and Interrelations between Art, Film and Theatre'. The project is being run by Dr Richard Rushton and Professor Andrew Quick, both from the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University. About the speakers: Ben Roberts: Ben Roberts is the Director of the BFI Film Fund and is responsible for overseeing the BFI's Lottery investments in film development, production and distribution, along with the BFI's international activities. Agnieszka Piotrowska: Agnieszka Piotrowska is a BBC trained, award winning documentary filmmaker with substantial experience in broadcast television in the UK and internationally. Her films include Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008), Lovers in Time (2015) and Escape (2016). As an academic her publications include Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2013) and Black and White: Cinema, Politics and the Arts in Zimbabwe (2016). Mathew Abbott: Mathew Abbott is Lecturer in Philosophy at Federation University Australia. His research is concerned with clarifying the philosophical significance of the forms of rational inquiry that go on in art. He is the author of The Figure of This World: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology and Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy, both published with Edinburgh University Press. His edited collection Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality was published by Routledge in February 2018. Adrian Kear: Professor Adrian Kear is Programme Development Director, Performance Arts, at the University of the Arts London. His research investigates theatre as a critical matrix through which to understand contemporary culture and as a specific aesthetic practice. He is the co-editor, with Maaike Bleeker, Joe Kelleher and Heike Roms, of a major book series for Methuen, Thinking Through Theatre, and an associated volume on the relationship between critical performance practice and pedagogy, Thinking Through Theatre and Performance (forthcoming, 2018). His other books include Theatre and Event: Staging the European Century (Palgrave); International Politics and Performance: Critical Aesthetics and Creative Practice (with Jenny Edkins, Routledge); Psychoanalysis and Performance (with Patrick Campbell, Routledge); and Mourning Diana: Nation, Culture and the Performance of Grief (with Deborah Lynn Steinberg, Routledge). He has written frequently for the journal Performance Research, including co-editing a special issue On Appearance (with Richard Gough). Adrian has been interviewed about his work on The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 (by John Humphrys), BBC Radio London (by Vanessa Feltz), and BBC Radio Wales. For further information contact Richard Rushton: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> -- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the Film-Philosophy list, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html -- Journal: http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/film Conference: http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/ --