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[ecrea] The Art of Documentary - spring school

Wed Oct 04 19:22:43 GMT 2017





*Call for Papers: The Arts of Documentary*

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