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[Commlist] Call for Papers - Kinema Club Conference for Film and Moving Images from Japan 20/20
Thu Jan 02 21:45:08 GMT 2020
Call for Papers for:
Kinema Club Conference for Film and Moving Images from Japan 20/20
at the Nippon Connection Film Festival
Dates: June 11-13, 2020
Location: Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Goethe University Frankfurt / Nippon
Connection Film Festival
Proposal Deadline: January 30, 2020
(Nippon Connection Film Festival dates: June 9 - June 14)
We welcome paper proposals and roundtable participation proposals for
the 20th Kinema Club Conference for Film and Moving Images from Japan,
to be held in conjunction with the 20th anniversary edition of the
Nippon Connection Film Festival.
The conference will consist of two sections, one with panel
presentations and one with events that are coordinated with the festival
screening schedule. The latter will include roundtable discussions on
broader topics, “wildcard roundtables” the topics of which will be
decided to create maximum synergies with the festival, and more focused
conversations with filmmakers. Through this we hope to take advantage of
the current films from all corners of Japanese moving image production
showing at the festival, and the large number of filmmakers in attendance.
Papers / Panels:
We encourage submission of papers that point - be it in methodology or
topic - to the future of the study of film and moving images from Japan,
or the future of film and moving images from Japan themselves. Papers
will be ten minutes in length, with the emphasis on leaving ample time
for discussion.
Roundtables / Interviews:
We also encourage applications for participation in round table
discussions, “wildcard roundtables” that will be coordinated with
festival screenings and events, and filmmaker conversations. The
“wildcard” events will take on form as the Nippon Connection program
becomes clearer, and we hope to use them to further develop ideas on the
future of the field or to discuss with attending filmmakers some of the
ongoing developments in film in Japan. Each participant in a roundtable
will be asked to prepare a very brief statement with thoughts and
questions regarding the roundtable theme. To a large degree, these are
roundtable that will improvise, explore, and be an opportunity for
learning and discussion. See the roundtable topics below - though we
also encourage proposing additional topics similar to a panel proposal..
We especially seek for graduate students to apply, and encourage drawing
on dissertation topics. While obtaining funding for a conference taking
place in Germany but organized from the U.S. presents challenges we hope
to be able to cover accommodation costs for at least graduate students
participating in the conference, and if possible for all participants.
Nippon Connection is one of the best venues in the world to gain an
overview of the current state of all corners of moving image production
from Japan – no other festival shows the same number of films or covers
the same span of all moving image production in Japan. The festival
usually features over 100 films and over 60 filmmakers, though for the
20th edition a higher number of guests than usual are expected.
Discounted tickets will be available for conference participants.
The conference is open to the public.
Fixed roundtable themes:
- Changing Canons
- Female Filmmakers
- Censorship and Control
- Sound Studies: Current and Future Roles
- Changing Approaches, Recent Scholarship
- PhD & Masters Theses: Institutions, Emerging Scholarship, Challenges,
Possible Futures
Proposals:
Panel papers:
Please send abstracts of up to 200 words and a bio (up to100 words).
Fixed roundtables:
Please send a statement on the future of the study of film and moving
images from Japan that takes the roundtable theme as its focal point.
Consider especially questions of: What are promising directions, how can
we consider connected issues in new and more generative ways? What are
central issues that need to be highlighted and critiqued more? If you
can, include concrete examples. Proposals will have up to 200 words and
a bio (up to 100 words).
Wildcard roundtables:
Please send a statement of what you find the most pressing issue for
discussing the future of the study of film and moving images from Japan
of up to 200 words and a bio (up to 100 words).
Note: It is possible to send in proposals for both a panel paper and for
a spot on a roundtable.
Proposal submission: please write “Panel” or “Roundtable” in the subject
field and send to: (kinemaclub2020 /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(kinemaclub2020 /at/ gmail.com)>
Deadlines:
Paper proposals: January 30
Roundtable proposals: January 30
Line-up Announcement: February 16
We hope to see you there!
Central Organizing Committee:
Chika Kinoshita (Kyoto University)
Fabian Wessels (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University)
Wider Organizing Committee:
Mycah Braxton (Harvard University)
Yedong Chen (Harvard University)
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What is Kinema Club?
Kinema Club is an informal community of scholars, artists, and fans
interested in Japanese moving image media established in the early
1990s. Back then we were a small group of like-minded graduate students,
frustrated at the lack of community and of bibliographic resources for
Japanese film (particularly for work in the language). Each “member” of
this little club xeroxed and swapped the tables of contents for major
film journals. When someone new came in, they would go and copy the
table of contents for a new journal in return for receiving the core
collection. In 1995, bibliography Maureen Donovan (OSU) provided a
website and encouraged KC to go digital and see what would come of it.
KC established a newsgroup called KineJapan, which instantly grew to 50
names. KineJapan now has over 600 participants from every part of the world.
From this description you might gather than Kinema Club is more an
idea than a group. The idea is that Kinema Club provides a rubric within
which anything is possible. No one owns it. Anyone can take it and do
something creative with it. We have no dues (and no budget or bank
account). No system of introductions. No office. It is amorphous, even
anarchic, but it has definitely played an important role in networking
all the scholars, programmers and fans interested in Japanese cinema.
One of the most important activities has been workshops and conferences.
At the end of the 1990s, the study of Japanese cinema was undergoing
some interesting transformations. Most notably, it was becoming
increasingly interdisciplinary. To confront these changes head-on, a
workshop was held at the University of Michigan in 1999. One thing
became immediately evident: although there were many students and
professors studying Japanese film and television, no one really knew
each other. KineJapan already had over 200 members at that point, but
few people had met face to face. So subsequent workshops and conferences
were held in Hawai’i (2003), NYU (2004), McGill (2004), Tokyo (2005),
NYU (2005), Yale (2006), and Frankfurt (2007) and more. The programs for
the complete list of conferences are on the archives section of the
Kinema Club website: https://kinemaclub.org/
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What is Nippon Connection?
The Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection is the largest platform for
Japanese cinema worldwide and takes place in Frankfurt a. M., Germany.
It screens around 100 films in various programs, as well as a
retrospective shown at the German Film Museum, just across the Main
river. From the beginning, Nippon Connection has tried to show the most
interesting work from every section of moving image production in Japan,
including documentary, blockbusters, experimental film, independent
film, animation, or TV commercials, Around 17,000 visitors attend the
event annually, as well as around 60 directors, actors, and producers
from Japan and over 300 accredited professionals. The festival gives out
various awards, among them an honor award for achievements in cinema;
recent honorees have included Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Terajima Shinobu, or
Shinya Tsukamoto. Since the year 2000 the festival has been organized by
the non-profit organization Nippon Connection e.V. on a volunteer basis
- a very unusual arrangement for a festival of this size.
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