Dear List Members,

Sorry for having left out important information about registration and
contact (see below) in my previous Call for Papers to participate at
Reality and Fiction conference to be held in Cluj, Romania. Also, I am
happy to add that Béla Tarr has just confirmed his articipation in the
panel on his works.

Sorry for multiple posting.

László Tarnay
University of Pécs, Hungary

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Call for Papers

REALITY OR FICTION
w/Special Panel: The Art of Béla Tarr

Important information:

Conference Venue: Cluj, Romania
Conference Dates: 2008, Sept.-26th – 28th
Deadline for Submission of Papers: 2008, July-31rst
Confirmation of Acceptance: 2008, August-15th
To register, please, go thttp://kv.sapientia.ro/nfmk/eng/

Invited keynote speakers:
Dirk Etzen (Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, U.S.A.), András
Bálint Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Michael Renov
(University of Southern California, U.S.A.), Béla  Tarr (director)

Ever since the appearance of film certain theorists hailed in the moving
image its ability to document reality, while others have been talking
about the power of the movies to create a perfect illusion of reality. The
history of the moving image itself is said to be rooted in the contrasting
poetics of the Lumière brothers’ portrayal of everyday life and
Méliès’s most escapist travels in fantasy. The debate was kept
alive, from opposite directions, by the first avant-gardists who undertook
to dismantle the filmic illusion and later by the neorealists and their
theorist, André Bazin, who asserted the realist ontology of the image as a
norm.

Nowadays the question of “reality and fiction” has gained
actuality by the ever multiplying media forms of the moving image.
Classical movie theatre experience has been replaced by a cinema based on
new digital technologies from Dolby stereo sound to computer graphics in
order to provide an overwhelming audiovisual experience which engulfs its
viewers. Television, with its own genres specially linked to reality, has
become part of our everyday life, home video or interactive 3D computer
games, or even mobile phones have become media for our daily consumption
of moving images.

In the meantime the theoretical debate about the double-sided effect of
the movies was given further twists by new methodologies in ecological and
cognitive film theory as well as cultural theories and visual
anthropology.

New modes of filmmaking appeared which were dubbed as docu-fiction or
fictional documentary, elements of reality and elements of fiction were
brought together either by re-editing ‘found’ footage or by
integrating genuinely or seemingly documentary images within a fictional
framework. Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man (2005) may exemplify the
first, and Béla Tarr’s early works as well as his Satantango (1994)
the second tendency.

The present conference aims to provide a platform for a basically
interdisciplinary approach to the relationship of reality and fiction in
moving images. The purpose is to bring together film theorists in various
disciplines, historians of film and visual media and visual anthropologist
as well as filmmakers who grapple with a similar problem of integrating
reality and fiction.

A special panel and a plenary will be devoted to the art of Béla Tarr. His
works are an ideal target to analyze both the engaging character of the
moving image and its realistic appeal. We also invite Ph.D students and
young scholars working on old or new forms of visual simulation to
participate in a special session on digital media representation.

Beyond the expected productive debates, the conference will hopefully
result in the writing of a number of well researched case studies that
approach the given topic from a wide range of angles. After the conference
we intend to publish a selection of papers in the form of a conference
volume.

We invite participants to address the following issues:
- historical and/or stylistic variations of reality and fiction in filmic
representation. Tendencies in contemporary Eastern-European film art.
- theoretical treatments of the relationship of reality and fiction in
film theory and visual anthropology.
- case studies of the reality of fiction or fictional reality in different
media and genres of the moving pictures (genres based on either
“pure” fiction or reality, or their hybridization, the
questions of TV genres versus reality). A panel dedicated to problems
raised by new and hybrid forms of media and digital cinema.
- the art of BÉLA TARR. The relationship of reality and fiction in
Tarr’s films.


Other Details:

Participants of the conference may be not only university scholars,
researchers but also PhD or even M.A. or undergraduate students who wish
to engage in a debate on the given interdisciplinary topic.

The time for paper presentations is limited to 20 minutes, followed by 10
minutes of discussion.

Official languages of the conference: English and Hungarian (in parallel
sessions)

At the end of the conference there will by a banquet and an excursion by
bus to the picturesque Turda Gorges.

Registration fee: 100 EUR. (It includes participation, buffet, banquet and
a one day excursion to the picturesque Turda Gorges by bus). Reduced fee
for students and Ph.D students: 75 EUR.

Registration fee is to be paid at arrival at the time of personal
registration at the conference venue.

The organizers of the conference: Sapientia Hungarian University of
Transylvania (Department of Photography, Film and Media) and University of
Pécs (Center for the Study of the Moving Image). Thus the present
conference continues the tradition of the earlier Cinema and Media Studies
Conferences in Transylvania, Cluj and The Laterna Magica Film Academy
conferences in Pécs.

Further information: http://kv.sapientia.ro/nfmk/eng/

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