[Commlist] Cine Excess XIII CFP

Call for Papers
The 13th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film 
Traditions

Birmingham City University Presents:
Cine Excess XIII
Independent Visions of Excess

7th- 9th November 2019
Birmingham City University (and related screening venues)
Confirmed Guests of Honour:
Jen and Sylvia Soska (Rabid [2019], American Mary)
Norman J. Warren (Terror, Inseminoid)


Keynote Speakers:
Dr Stacey Abbott, Roehampton University Professor Ernest Mathijs, 
University of British Columbia

Previous guests of honour attending Cine-Excess have included Victoria 
Price (Author of Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography), Pete Walker 
(Director of Frightmare and House of the Long Shadows), Catherine 
Breillat (Romance, Sex is Comedy), John Landis (An American Werewolf in 
London, The Blues Brothers), Roger Corman (The Masque of the Red Death, 
The Wild Angels), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, King of the Ants), Brian 
Yuzna (Society, The Dentist), Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria), Joe 
Dante (The Howling, Gremlins), Franco Nero (Django, Keoma, Die Hard II), 
Vanessa Redgrave (Blow Up, The Devils), Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal 
Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park), Enzo G. Castellari (Keoma, 
The Inglorious Bast***s), Sergio Martino (Torso, All the Colours of the 
Dark), Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, Blue Sunshine) and Pat Mills (Action 
Magazine, 2000 AD).

Cine-Excess XIII is hosted by Birmingham City University and will 
feature a three-day academic conference alongside film industry panels 
and a season of related UK premieres and retrospectives taking place at 
screening venues across the region.
For its 13th annual edition, Cine Excess focuses on independent visions 
of excess and the contribution of independent filmmakers working outside 
of the mainstream to an understanding of cinema, culture and identities. 
These range from classic cult auteurs, such as Ed Wood, to contemporary 
movie makers who retain a fiercely unorthodox world-view whilst moving 
from the margins to the mainstream (such as Kathryn Bigelow). Cine 
Excess Xlll further considers how indie directors negotiate and respond 
to their own cinema cultures and wider global trends, including those 
iconic British filmmakers who bring elements of subversion to national 
cinema traditions, such as guest of honour, Norman J. Warren. With the 
emergence of the women in horror filmmaker movement (as embodied by 
guests of honour, the Soska Sisters), a particular focus is the work of 
female and minority directors operating in the independent sphere. We 
are also interested in cult creators that explore bizarre 
characterisation and unorthodox approaches to narrative, or adopt 
extreme aesthetics associated with the post-9/11 milieu. Further topics 
might examine gender- and genre-crossing, settings/landscapes of excess, 
and obscene images of nationhood, as well as how contemporary issues, 
such as those pertaining to mental health, are framed through cinemas of 
transgression. Proposals are now invited for papers that assess the 
importance of independent visions of excess within these differing 
contexts. However, we would particularly welcome contributions focusing 
on the following areas:


•	Twisted Twins and Tortured Characters: The Cinema of the Soska Sisters 
•	My Private Hell: The Cinema of Norman J. Warren
•	Trumped: Political Discourse in the Dissenting Image
•	Monsters Made Me Too: Women Doing Horror
•	Classic and Contemporary Case-Studies of Indie Cult Cinema •	Cult 
Voices in the Age of Remakes •	Histories of Violence: Actuality Framed 
Through Excess
•	New Canadian Visions of Excess
•	Perversities and Peculiarities of  Excess: The Aesthetics of the 
Marginal •	The Industry of Excess: Business Perspectives on Cult Film 
Creation
•	Indie Inside: Rebellious Voices Subverting the Mainstream • 
Excessiveness in the Lynchian Universe
•	Landscapes of Transgression: Space, Place and the Creative Mindset
•	European Visions of Transgression
•	Post-Millennial Aesthetics of Horror
•	UK Indie Auteurs •	Supernatural Phenomena through the Indie Mindset • 
Diverse Voices, Global Indie Visions
•	Split: Framing Mental Health in Exploitation Cinema  •	Near Dark: The 
Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow
•	Queer Renditions of Excess
•	Experimental and Extreme: Visions of the Avant-Garde

Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by Friday 
6th September 2019 to:

Professor Xavier Mendik                             			
Birmingham City University  (xavier.mendik /at/ bcu.ac.uk)         Dr Fran 
Pheasant-Kelly        	
University of Wolverhampton        (F.E.Pheasant-kelly /at/ wlv.ac.uk)
A final listing of accepted presentations will be released on Monday 
16th September 2019.
Delegate fees for Cine-Excess XIII are £100/£60 (concessions). This 
includes entrance to the conference, related Cine-Excess screenings and 
industry panels.  A selection of conference papers from the event are 
scheduled to be published in the Cine-Excess e-Journal.  For further 
information and regular updates on the event (including information on 
guests, keynotes and screenings) please visit www.cine-excess.co.uk


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