[Commlist] Call for Proposals Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Festival and Conference

Call for Proposals – Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Festival and Conference
18th – 19th July 2024, University of Salford, Media City UK.

Submission deadline: Friday 17 May 2024

The second Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Network Festival and 
Conference 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, 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 event 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 event 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 INEFF Festival and Conference hopes to 
address include but are not limited to:
 1. What are the creative possibilities and boundaries of experimental 
fiction filmmaking?
2. Which processes of collaboration can inform novel and meaningful 
experimental fiction film outputs?
3. How might new technology shape new narrative fiction forms?
4. How might experimental fiction filmmaking lead to novel modes of 
critical engagement and interpretation?
5. How might we define Experimental Fiction Filmmaking?

We welcome proposals for workshops (up to 30 minutes), film screenings 
(up to 20 minutes) and work installations/demonstrations (negotiable).
We also welcome more traditional papers. However, these will be split 
between content you provide online on ineff.org (either your paper, 
video presentation or mixed media), and a five-minute live summary as 
part of a thematic panel, which will inform a lively critical discussion 
during the event.
Submission Guidelines:
Proposals should include
1. Short statement about how your practice and/or research links to the 
notion of EFF (200 words)
2. A short proposal or outline of how you would envision contributing to 
the event (details of a paper, workshop, or sharing/screening practice) 
(300 words)
3. Link(s) to any relevant practice.
4. 100-word bio.
Please use this form to express your interest in participating 
https://forms.gle/8m1TyTAFhmooNqj5A

The submission deadline is Friday 17 May 2024.
Visit www.ineff.org for more information. For any enquiries, please 
contact us on (ineffsymposium /at/ gmail.com)

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