[ecrea] Call for Practice – Screenworks special issue: 'Aesthetics/Politics/Activism/Art: What is Radical Film?'

*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 (admin /at/ screenworks.org.uk) 
<mailto:(admin /at/ screenworks.org.uk)>.

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