[ecrea] CFP: Conference on Space and Cinema - Lisbon - Nov2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Space and Cinema

November 28-30, 2016

University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities

http://spaceandcinema.wix.com/lisbon2016

The Conference will focus on Space and Cinema in order to examine the
ways through which cinema deals with spatiality, in its bodily and
geographical materiality, as well as in its symbolic and theoretical
frameworks.

Heterotopic as it is, screen space juxtaposes several different spaces
pertaining to different dimensions (Michael Chanan, The Documentary
Chronotope, 2000): both mise en scène and cinematic dispositifs
spatialize the gaze, the vanishing point where the filmic and the
pro-filmic intersect. Space is therefore represented, conveyed and
appropriated by the cinematic apparatus, calling into question the
historical, political and philosophical aspects of an aesthetics of
spatiality in a broad sense.

All of these distinct categories point to a fundamental idea: by
definition, the moving image dinamizes space and spatializes time, thus
contributing to the changing perceptions of space and time. We are
interested in the concept of space as an inherently cinematic feature
that led to specific developments in film language in early cinema, and
which is still an on-going subject of debate. Its conceptualization
around and translation into the film form has been the object of many
theoretical and artistic approaches, which places this call for papers
in an expanded field of work and research. We aim not only to look into
the object-film itself, but also to enrol in creative and critical
excursions in the form of papers or visual essays that somehow promote
the discussion of space and cinema (and other moving image practices).

Potential papers can address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- Cinematic space, place and time

- Building the filmic space: screenplay, mise-en-scène, editing,
post-production

- Space and film genres

- Body, gender and space

- Film and landscape

- Architecture and cinema

- Space and ruin

- Space and national filmographies

- Colonial and postcolonial spaces

- Exile, shifting borders and displacement

- Space and collective occupations

- Outer space and utopia

- Cartographies, maps and archive

- Roads, paths and journeys

- Travelogue and documentary film

- Mental spaces: dream, hallucination, and virtual reality

The Conference’s working languages are Portuguese and English.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

Please send the Organizing Committee 500-word abstracts for 20-minute
presentations, as well as a brief biographical note (circa 200 words),
to (spaceandcinemalisbon2016 /at/ gmail.com) by May 31, 2016.

Please use this template when submitting your proposal (available
online: http://spaceandcinema.wix.com/lisbon2016)

Notification of acceptance will be given by July 15, 2016.

Dr Mariana Liz

Lecturer in Film Studies

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

University of Leeds
Leeds  LS2 9JT

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/profile/125052/1127/mariana_liz
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