[ecrea] CFP: International Conference on Landscape and Cinema_FLUL_Lisbon

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International Conference on Landscape and Cinema
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December 3 and 4, 2018
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon

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CFP
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Cinema portrays, creates and decodes landscape, while proceeding as its 
allegory. Echoing its spatial display of physical elements and 
confronting it with a soundscape, filmic landscape addresses 
subjectivity, culture, ideology and theory through the contemplation of 
what is frequently located at the background of the shot. The 
background’s autonomy, stated by the mise- en-scène, dispositif and the 
audience, allows for landscape to emerge, revealing it also as a 
rhetoric process that implies a self-reflexive gaze.

Moving-image practices also take in the minutiae of what would usually 
stand as the background in a narrative film as the subject matter for a 
reflection on history, materiality and situatedness. A film becomes the 
place where the actualization of the filmed material landscape happens 
and its connection to its outside and its multiple temporalities becomes 
evident. Landscape as already cinematic.

A centrifuge and fragmented image, filmic landscape renders atmosphere – 
Stimmung – and functions as a dramatization element, ‘a sort of 
polyptych, disseminated, repeated or altered according to a 
space-organising narrative necessity (Natali, 1996, p. 15). Ever vibrant 
in itself, ‘landscape is the freest element of film, the least burdened 
with servile, narrative tasks, and the most flexible in converging 
moods, emotional states, and spiritual experiences’ (Eisenstein, 1987, 217).

We invite proposals for individual visual works, individual papers and 
pre-constituted panels (3 speakers) on topics related to landscape and 
cinema, which may include but not be limited to:

Landscape’s times and duration

Backdrop, perspective, lines and points of fugue, light, shadow, colour: 
landscape as

visual matter

Filmic Soundscapes

Landscape in amateur cinema

Landscape in avant-garde and experimentalism

Culturally charged landscapes

Political landscapes

Psychological landscapes

Characters in nature

Ecocinema

Colonialism and landscape

Animism, ecology and relations in the landscape

Industrialization of time and space

Confirmed keynote speakers:

JONATHAN RAYNER is Reader in Film Studies at the University of 
Sheffield, UK. His research interests include Australian Cinema, auteur 
studies, genre films and the interactions of landscapes and moving 
images. He is the author of The Films of Peter Weir (1998), Contemporary 
Australian

Cinema (2000), The Naval War Film: Genre, History, National Cinema 
(2007) and The Cinema of Michael Mann (2013). He is the co-editor of 
Cinema and Landscape (2010), Film Landscapes (2013),Mapping Cinematic 
Norths (2016) and Filmurbia (2017).

EMANUELE COCCIA is an Associate Professor at the École des Hautes 
Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His current research 
topics focus on the ontological status of images and their normative 
power. Among his publications: La trasparenza delle immagini. Averroè e 
l’averroismo(2005), La vie sensible (2010), Le bien dans les choses 
(2013), and La vie des plantes. Une métaphysique du mélange (2016). 
With Giorgio Agamben as a co-editor, he published an anthology on angels 
in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts: Angeli. Ebraismo 
Cristianesimo Islam (2009).

The conference will present film works by Portuguese visual artist 
SÉRGIO TABORDA and American iconic experimental filmmaker LARRY 
GOTTHEIM in Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema.

The time for presentations is limited to 20 minutes.
Proposals may be submitted in Portuguese or English.
To apply, please send a PDF document containing your name, institutional 
affiliation, email address, the proposed title of your visual 
work/paper/panel and an abstract (max 500 words) to 
(comunicacao.cec /at/ letras.ulisboa.pt) 
<mailto:(comunicacao.cec /at/ letras.ulisboa.pt)> by July 1
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We will inform applicants by August 5.

website:
https://landscapeandcinema.wixsite.com/2018

ORGANIZERS
Elisabete Marques (Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, 
UPorto) Filipa Rosário (CEC, ULisboa)
Raquel Schefer (CEC, ULisboa)
Ricardo Vieira Lisboa (Independent Researcher)
Susana Mouzinho (IfilNova, UNL)





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