CfP: 3rd Conference on Contemporary Greek Film Cultures
‘Strategies of the Documentary’
Vienna, 16-18 May 2018
Possible areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:
Variations and developments of the Greek documentary image
Fact and fiction (definitions, oppositions, hybrids)
Tokens of the ‘real’ (hand-held camera; black-and-white material; grain …)
Documentary modes in feature films
‘Realism’ and its documentary qualities
Ideology, politics, propaganda
Documentary and the Greek ‘crisis’
Representing history (newsreels, found footage, the archive, historical documentary after
postmodernism …)
Documenting the Other (aspects of gender, race, religion, colonialism …)
Documentary and current theory
Relations between documentary, reportage, essay film
Documentary cinema and the digital, new formats, new media …
Making and showing documentaries (organizational and economic aspects of production,
distribution, reception, festivals …)
Politics of canonization and archiving (from technical conservation to the production of a
Greek national identity)
Authorship and orphan films
Industrial film
Documentary and intermediality (documentary films on stage, orchestral accompaniment,
DVD editions)
The conference is organized by Lilia Diamantopoulou and Maria Oikonomou [Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna]
The closing date for sending your proposal is May 30, 2017. Please send your abstract for a 30 min. paper (max. 300 words) along with technical requirements and a short CV to:
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