[ecrea] Ecstatic Truth: Call for Papers

Ecstatic Truth is a one-day symposium that will explore provocative 
approaches to the factual - from the poetic, personal and 
autobiographical through to 'objective' documentary - through animated 
filmmaking. Animation is considered in an expanded form, as a spectrum 
of activities from traditional character animation to experimental 
manipulated moving image; from the screen-based - short film - to the 
spatialised - VR and installation.

More detailed information including the call for papers is below.

*ECSTATIC TRUTH **III*: */MAKING SENSE: Between Fantasy and Fact, 2018/*

*Wednesday 27th June, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon*

*Hosted by Universidade Lusófona in collaboration with the Animation 
Research Centre, University for the Creative Arts and University of 
Westminster (CREAM)*

According to Werner Herzog mere facts constitute an accountant’s 
reality, but it is the ecstatic truth (a poetic reality) that can 
capture more faithfully the nuances and depths of human experiences. 
Given that animation (or manipulated moving image) has the freedom to 
represent, stylize, or reimagine the world, it lends itself well to this 
aspirational form of a documentary. We invite speakers to respond to the 
idea of “Ecstatic Truth” and reflect, speculate and imagine how animated 
(or manipulated image) form might elicit the different facets of this 
poetic truth, through its unique language. We welcome speculations, 
poetic reflections, rigorous questioning, even fierce creative 
opposition to Herzog’s statement…

*This year’s focus:*

We want to explore questions of “truth” in an age where hierarchy of 
authority is challenged by social media’s ability to give everyone an 
equal voice. How can an expanded form of documentary, which pushes the 
fluid boundaries between fact and fiction, subjective and objective, 
poetic and informative, help us understand the world we live in? And in 
this tangle of impressions, where lies the deeper, poetic, or “ecstatic” 
truth, and how can this truth help us navigate the ever more complex 
landscape of information overload? We welcome work that challenges, 
provokes, questions the complex relationship between the reality we all 
share, and the inner worlds shaped by our own hopes, desires, 
prejudices, illusions, memories, perceptions and dreams….

**

*Key note speakers: Joan Fontcuberta (conceptual artist), Susana Sousa 
Dias (filmmaker)*

http://ecstatictruth.ulusofona.pt/

*Call for Papers is now Open!*

*Deadline: Friday 18th May, 2018*

We welcome papers and alternative presentations from PhD students, 
researchers (within animation but also beyond), filmmakers and other 
practitioners, who use animation (in its most expanded form = 
manipulated image) as part of their methodology, their way of trying to 
understand the world.

Proposals, responding to the theme of *MAKING SENSE: Between Fantasy and 
Fact* (as outlined above), should be for either:

–         a 20 minute conference paper;

–         an alternative discussion/presentation format as appropriate 
for practice-based research (this can include practice based work in a 
form of short films, images etc.)

Proposal format:

300 word summary of the proposed presentation

Proposed format (i.e. paper, screening, workshop, etc.)

Biog: 150 words

Relevant links to visual work (films, still image etc.)

*Please email all to: (ecstatictruth /at/ ulusofona.pt) 
<mailto:(ecstatictruth /at/ ulusofona.pt)>*

http://ecstatictruth.ulusofona.pt/


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