[Commlist] Iluminace 3/2025 published - Filmic Matter and Geographic Specificity

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ILUMINACE announces a new themed issue:

*Filmic Matter and Geographic Specificity

Guest editors: Byron Davies and Jiří Anger
Read the issue for free here: 
<https://iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2025/mn3.php?l=en 
<https://iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2025/mn3.php?l=en>>

The materiality of film and audiovisual media has often been understood 
in universal terms, or through the language of canonized Western 
thought. This special issue demonstrates the diverse ways in which 
filmic matter can be articulated in relation to local and geographic 
contexts. Case studies in manufacturing, preservation, circulation, and 
artistic appropriation of both photochemical and digital film across 
Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa highlight the extent to which 
cinema is shaped by the availability (or unavailability) of specific 
physical materials and resources.

The issue features both written papers and audiovisual essays. The 
lineup includes:
*Byron Davies – Jiří Anger: Toward a Geographically Specific 
Understanding of Filmic and Media Matter: An Introduction to a Special Issue
*Marek Jancovic: Cinema’s Atmospheric A Priori: How Weather and 
Environment Shaped Celluloid Film Manufacturing and Raw Material Supply 
at Fujifilm, Daicel, and Agfa
*Jennifer Nightingale: Knitting on Location: The Norfolk Knitting 
Pattern Film Series [audiovisual essay]
*Libertad Gills: Por un cine cachinero: Reappropriation as a Survival 
Strategy in Contemporary Experimental Cinema from Guayaquil [audiovisual 
essay]
*Maxime Harvey: Language Matters in the Geography of AI: French-Language 
Uses of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Filmmaking
*Aleksei Ziniuk – Margarita Galandina: Refiguring the Buryat 
Photographic Archive: Ethnographic Visuality, Vernacular Montage, and 
Shamanic Temporality
*Laurence Kent: Hussein Shariffe’s Filmic Ruins: Archival Noise and The 
Dislocation of Amber (1975) [audiovisual essay]
*Bori Máté: Ritualization and Táltos Procedures in Péter Lichter’s 
Nutrition Fugue (2018)
*Ludo de Roo: Kidlat Tahimik: Metaphorical Journeys in Decolonial Cinema
*Floris Paalman: Moving in Circles: Space and Place in Media Archaeology 
and the Art of Jop Horst

Article outside the themed section [in Czech language]:
*Tereza Frodlová – Jakub Egermajer: Medieval Partisan in Color: 
Restoration of the Film Jan Roháč of Dubá as a Source of Cultural History

The issue also contains book reviews.
Printed version available soon: <www.eshop.nfa.cz/iluminace 
<http://www.eshop.nfa.cz/iluminace>>


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