[ecrea] The Art of Documentary - spring school

*Call for Papers: The Arts of Documentary*

*March 3- 7 2018, Gorizia (Italy)*
*MAGIS Spring School  - Cinema and Contemporary Arts section **
*

Starting from the growing concerns about what is “truth” and what comes 
after it, the Cinema and Contemporary Arts Section takes its cue from 
the reflection recently launched by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg in their 
edited volume /Documentary Across Disciplines/ (2016), in order to 
investigate the very complex definition of the documentary image in 
documentary practice.

In 2001 the artist and theorist Hito Steyerl has defined the documentary 
mode as something always doubtful: according to the German artist, the 
uncertainty of the documentary is a lack that shall not be hidden since 
it constitutes its core quality. Is it possible to define what a 
documentary really is? Don’t we constantly challenge the way we document 
something just with the mere act of describing it?

Addressing the general topic of the XVI MAGIS International Film Studies 
Spring School on the existing interrelationships between media, 
politics, and representations (see the whole call for paper here 
<http://www.filmforumfestival.it/call-for-paper/spring-school/>), the 
Cinema and Contemporary Arts section invite scholars and students to 
explore how the interrelationships between media, politics, and images 
articulate the reality in a time of global tension, within a framework 
where contemporary documentary practices are already characterized by a 
substantially flowing nature. Moreover, we encourage reflections on the 
problematic streaming of contemporary documentary practice across 
different media and disciplines, in order to put in evidence the shift 
between spaces and time in contemporary documentary experiences.

With these premises, we encourage papers that deal with (but are not 
restricted to) the following topics:

– The use of historical “documents” and/or audiovisual “documentary” 
items in an exhibition context;

– The relationship between documentary and contemporary arts;

– The use of “documentary images” in a contemporary art context;

– The new politics of documentary;

– Spatial montage in relation with documentary practices;

– The relation between true and false in documentary filmmaking


We invite you to send us proposals for papers or panels at 
/(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com)/ <mailto:(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com)>/./.The 
deadline for their submission is *October, 25th 2017.*

Proposals should not exceed one page in length. Please make sure to 
attach a short CV (10 lines max). A registration fee (€ 150) will be 
applied. For more information, please contact us at 
/(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com)/ <mailto:(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com)>/./


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