[Commlist] cfp: The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion

we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a paper to be 
presented at the Conference:


/The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion/



Category
ACADEMIC
Deadline | Event Dates (period)
12 June 2019 - 13 June 2019
City
London, UK
Email
(rturina /at/ aub.ac.uk) <mailto:(rturina /at/ aub.ac.uk)>
Website
https://essayfilmformandanimationintersectionalityinmotion.com 
<https://essayfilmformandanimationintersectionalityinmotion.com/>
Edition
n/a
Submission deadline
2019-03-15
Submission/Registration Fee
No

*Call for Abstracts:*

THE ESSAY FILM FORM AND ANIMATION: INTERSECTIONALITY IN MOTION

Animation has been used in film form for its ability to illustrate, 
clarify, intensify, and focus the expression of feelings, emotions, 
processes, situations. In socially engaged films, animation supports and 
opens the debate of complex realities, which can be external or 
internal, like in I was the Child of Holocaust Survivors (Fleming, 
2006), An Eyeful of Sound (Moore, 2010), Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 
2008), and Tower(Maitland, 2012).

Paul Arthur notes “[g]alvanized by the intersection of personal, 
subjective and social history, the essay [film] has emerged as the 
leading nonfiction form for both intellectual and artistic innovation” 
(2003, p. 58). In this sense, essay films are hybrid, cross boundaries 
and often challenge our preconceptions of how to engage an audience. 
Essay films are also placed in a vital dialogue with how we understand 
the broader categories of ‘nonfiction’, ‘fiction’ and ‘documentary’, 
especially in relation to deeply individual stories that might 
nevertheless resonate across social categories like class, race, gender, 
and sexuality.

The conference wishes to develop these dialogues in specific relation to 
how the animated form mobilises or challenges ideas of the essay film. 
It, therefore, encourages *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.

This conference invites practitioners and scholars to focus on the 
relationship between the essay film form and animation, and to look at 
animation as a set of communicative techniques which give voice to 
resistance to social discrimination and inequality, and more effectively 
address 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.

Suggested areas (not an exclusive list):

  * Formal definitions of the animated essay film
  * Notions of intersectionality in animation: representing complex and
    overlapping social power structures
  * Animated documentary/nonfiction/essay film
  * Representations of social class, gender, race, ethnicity
  * Debates about animation and identity politics
  * Pervasive animation/personal stories?
  * Examining social complexity through individual essayistic approaches
    to animated form
  * Questions of the animator as a witness, participant, or onlooker to
    the event they depict
  * The notion of ‘Personal Camera’, the ‘diary’ and ‘first-person
    filmmaking’ and how they are manifested in animation
  * The use of animated landscapes in the essay film

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

London, as the location of the conference, emphasises the historical 
relevance of this major city in the debate on diversity, social 
cohesion, and intersectional discrimination. The London conference is 
scheduled just before the Society for Animation Studies 31st Annual 
Conference (to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 17-21 June 2019). This 
enhances the cultural reach of the SAS, and the debating of animation in 
the contemporary context, with opportunities for conversations begun at 
the London event to continue in Lisbon, as delegates travel there.

Date/Place: Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th June 2019 at the Derek 
Jarman Lab, London – CAPA, 146 Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 4EF

Organisers: Professor Paul Ward, Dr Romana Turina and Dr Bartek Dziadosz 
/ Arts University Bournemouth, Society for Animation Studies, Derek 
Jarman Lab


      Event Dates

  * From 12 June 2019 to 13 June 2019


Online:


https://essayfilmformandanimationintersectionalityinmotion.com



also at:


https://zippyframes.com/index.php/283-the-essay-film-form-in-animation-intersectionality-in-motion-12-13-6-19 



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