[Commlist] CFP - Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Network Symposium and Film Festival

*Call for Participants - Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Network 
Symposium and Film Festival*

*11**^th ** – 12**^th ** July, University of Salford, Media City UK.*


*Extended deadline: Wednesday 17^th May 2023*

The inaugural Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Network Symposium and Film 
Festival aims to explore and define the boundaries of Experimental 
Fiction Filmmaking (EFF) by bringing together PAR academics, film 
scholars, industry professionals and independent filmmakers for a series 
of workshops, presentations and screenings.

EFF draws upon traditions in cinema, specifically experimental film, art 
cinema and expanded cinema, but also specific philosophical concerns and 
practitioner insights and sensibilities. EFF is not tied to one 
particular movement or period of cinema history, some of its varied 
histories can be traced back to the modernist period in the early 20th 
century, for example the early works of Surrealism in cinema, photogenie 
and the work of Jean Epstein and Louis Delluc, or the experiments in 
montage of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov. More contemporary 
examples can be found in the work of Agnes Varda, Vera Chytilova, 
William Greaves, Lars von Trier, Claire Denis, Werner Herzog, Andrei 
Tarkovsky, Harmony Korine, Luis Bunuel, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Tsai Ming 
Liang, Wong Kar Wai, Philippe Grandrieux, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 
Mike Figgis, and many others. However, the aim of this symposium is not 
to re-reclassify the history of cinema based on narrative or formal 
markers, but rather to establish and develop a set of experimental 
methods and approaches to fiction film production, which will expand on 
the creative potential of cinema and provide guidance and inspiration to 
both established and emerging filmmakers, in a rapidly developing 
technological context. Alongside this practical experimentation, the 
symposium asks how experimental fiction filmmaking might enable new 
modes of critical engagement and interpretation with the processes 
developed and the films made, within their theoretical, philosophical 
and ethical contexts.


Film fiction continues to be a form of storytelling under constant 
development, whether in terms of exploration of film’s unique 
audio-visual possibilities of expression and communication, or new 
processes afforded to filmmakers through changing cultural and 
technological contexts. Therefore, film fiction can benefit from new 
conceptualisations of storytelling that are rooted both in the 
specificity of film as a  medium, and the way different contexts and 
processes might be brought to film anew. Practice-as-research in film is 
a useful approach to developing such new conceptual approaches.

Some of the questions that the symposium hopes to address include but 
are not limited to:

What are the creative possibilities and boundaries of experimental 
fiction filmmaking?

Which processes of collaboration can inform novel and meaningful 
experimental fiction film outputs?

How might new technology shape new narrative fiction forms?


How might experimental fiction filmmaking lead to novel modes of 
critical engagement and interpretation?

How might we define Experimental Fiction Filmmaking?

*Submission Guidelines:*

Proposals should include

1.Short statement about how their practice and/or research links to the 
notion of EFF (200 words)

2.A short proposal or outline of how they would envision contributing to 
the symposium (details of a presentation, workshop, or sharing/screening 
practice) (300 words)

3.Link(s) to any relevant practice.


Please use this form <https://forms.gle/8zqH3tsb79MRRTZM8> to express 
your interest in participating.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTKY9ISxcayLPP6NtsQ9UmbunCySgYfHJ_AR59g6acfnT0Bg/viewform 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTKY9ISxcayLPP6NtsQ9UmbunCySgYfHJ_AR59g6acfnT0Bg/viewform> 



The submission deadline is *Monday 17 April 2023*.

Visit www.ineff.org <http://www.ineff.org/> for more information. For 
any enquiries, please contact us on *(ineffsymposium /at/ gmail.com)*


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