[Commlist] CFP: The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion. Derek Jarman Lab, London.

*CFP: The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion. 
<https://essayfilmformandanimationintersectionalityinmotion.com/2019/02/01/call-for-papers/>** 12-13 
June 2019. Derek Jarman Lab, London.*
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The conference explores the ways in which animated form mobilises or 
challenges ideas of the essay film. We, therefore, encourage submissions 
that engage with how animation represents complex and intersecting 
social issues and power relations. Major axes of social division in a 
given society at a given time operate not “as discrete and mutually 
exclusive entities, but build on each other and work together” (Collings 
and Bilge, 2016, p. 4). It is very challenging to convincingly visualise 
and configure these phenomena and how they intersect. But animation 
seems perfectly placed to rise to this challenge, due to its hybrid, 
metamorphic and pervasive tendencies.

Focussing on the relationship between the essay film form and animation, 
the conference explores animation as a set of communicative techniques 
which give voice to resistance to social discrimination and inequality, 
effectively addressing a range of human issues in all their complexity. 
Looking at the intersectionality of race, class, gender and ethnicity, 
as part of our engagement in the understanding of diversity in 
contemporary societies and historically, we aim to highlight the 
importance of the animated essay form to communicate these messages, and 
to ask questions.

*Deadline: 15 March 2019**.* Please e-mail abstracts (250-300 words) 
plus author bios (100 words) to Dr Romana Turina (rturina /at/ aub.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(rturina /at/ aub.ac.uk)>

*Conference organisers:* Professor Paul Ward, Dr Romana Turina and Dr 
Bartek Dziadosz






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