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[Commlist] Cine-Excess 2023 International Film Festival and Conference
Fri Aug 11 17:38:51 GMT 2023
We are delighted to announce the first confirmed filmmaking guests for
the 2023 edition of the /Cine-Excess /International Film Festival and
Conference, alongside a reminder of this year’s call for papers.
Entitled /Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, / this event
includes an international conference (running 18^th -20^th October) with
accompanying guest filmmakers, UK theatrical premieres and
in-person/streamed screenings (running 18^th -27^th October). Further
information can be found below.^
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*Call for Papers: /Cine-Excess/ 2023 International Film Festival &
Conference*
*Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject**
18^th – 27^th October 2023*
*Birmingham, UK/Online *
*An international conference (with options for online and in person
attendance) ***
*18^th -20^th October 2023***
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*Accompanying guest filmmakers, UK theatrical premieres and
in-person/streamed screenings ***
*18^th -27^th October 2023 ***
*Featured Events include: /Hellraiser /—//An Unholy Reunion of Cenobites *
*Doug Bradley (Pinhead /Hellraiser/, /Hellraiser II/) ***
*– Exclusive /Cine-Excess/ Delegate Q & A/Recorded Address ***
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*Nick Vince (The Chatterer, /Hellraiser/, /Hellraiser II/), Barbie Wilde
(Female Cenobite, /Hellraiser II/), Simon Bamford
(Butterball,/Hellraiser/, /Hellraiser II/) – Live on stage at
/Cine-Excess/ 2023 on Thursday 19^th October***
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*Live online Keynote Speaker: Professor Barbara Creed (University of
Melbourne), marking the 30^th anniversary republication of /The
Monstrous–Feminine./**//*
For its 2023 edition, /Cine-Excess/ considers the cinematic, social and
cultural significance of the possessed, supernatural and unclean body
onscreen. In-keeping with the festival’s established mission to
integrate academic and industrial film perspectives, this year’s theme
of /Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject/ focuses on landmark
scholarly texts as well as anniversaries and restorations of cult cinema
classics that deal with this subject.
*Barbara Creed’s* /The Monstrous–Feminine/, first published in 1993,
swiftly became acknowledged as a ground-breaking text in the study of
horror for its application of feminist and psychoanalytic theory and its
foregrounding of Julia Kristeva’s concept of ‘abjection’. Thirty years
on, Professor Creed is publishing a second edition of the book, with a
new section entitled: ‘Revolt of the Monstrous-feminine embracing the
Nonhuman’. This new face of the monstrous-feminine is the topic of a
live streamed /Cine-Excess/ 2023 keynote lecture.
2023 also marks the 50^th anniversary of the mother of all devil child
films, William Friedkin’s /The Exorcist/. An enormous box office success
and cultural phenomenon, the film spawned an international wave of
‘devil child’ imitations with their own social, cultural and
gender-based sensibilities, whilst Friedkin and Warner Bros. have
themselves continued to revisit and reissue the film in the intervening
years. Autumn 2023 sees a 4K restoration return to theatres, and with
the recent passing of its legendary director William Friedkin, /The
Exorcist/ rightfully features in the /Cine-Excess/ 2023 call for papers.
Also returning in a 4K restoration this autumn is Clive Barker’s
/Hellraiser/ (1987) and its sequel /Hellraiser II /(Tony Randel, 1988).
/Hellraiser/representsof the most distinctive and influential of all
British cult horrors, with its seductive combination of intellectual
provocation, shocking visuals and thematic abjection, the /Hellraiser/
universe continues to inspire fascination and adoration, most recently
through a 2022 loose reboot of the first film. To celebrate the
restoration of the cult classic, we are delighted to be bestowing
/Cine-Excess/ Innovator of Horror Awards to its iconic cenobite stars
*Doug Bradley*, *Nick Vince*, *Barbie Wilde* and *Simon Bamford*, with
the latter three appearing at /Cine-Excess/ on *Thursday 19^th October
2023*.
Beyond the example of /Hellraiser/, /Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and
the Abject /also draws in other nationally specific examples of the
supernatural and subcultural from /The Wicker Man/ (which also
celebrates its 50^th anniversary) to more contemporary international
examples of the folk horror phenomenon. Additionally, this year’s
conference theme also provides the platform to discuss classic and
contemporary visions of the supernatural from the Global South, which
themselves display important social, cultural, gender and regional concerns.
Accordingly, this year’s theme /Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the
Abject/ invites participants to consider both classic and
contemporaneous texts and consider their ongoing influence for both film
audiences and cinema scholars. Proposals are therefore invited for
individual papers or pre-constituted panels that consider case-studies
within a range of differing contexts that relate to this year’s theme.
We would particularly welcome contributions that focus on the following
areas:
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* 50 Years of Fear: William Friedkin and the Legacy of /The Exorcist/
* /‘/Taste our pleasures!’: The Legacy and Influence of/Hellraiser/
* The Devil Inside Her: Witches and Wayward Women on Screen
* Supernatural Visions of the Global South
* National Traditions of the Abject Body on Screen
* Little Devils: Demonic Children on Screen
* New Visions of the Monstrous–Feminine
* ‘He has his father’s eyes’: Parenthood and Demonic Children
* Raising Hell: Unruly Cult Auteurs as Unholy Creatives
* ‘He chose you, honey! From all the women in the world to be the
mother of his only living son!’: The Female as the Mid-Wife to the
Devil
* Demonic Divas: Star Study Perspectives of Possession Performers
* ‘If I die I’m going to haunt you myself’: Demonic Possession in an
Online World
* The Power of the Box Office Compels You/: Exorcist /Clones in Context//
* Folklore Cinema and the Witch as Monstrous–Feminine
* ‘Have these children never heard of Jesus?’: /The Wicker Man/ at 50
* ‘The box. You opened it. We came’: /The Exorcist/ and /Hellraiser/
reborn in the multi-platform age
* Making Work for Idle Hands: The Devil in the Workplace
* Supernatural Small Towns of the Streamers:/Stranger Things/, /Fear
Street/, /Sabrina/
* /From Fantasia to /Goosebumps/: The Demonic in Children’s Media/
* Are You Making it Move?: Rituals and Performance in Demonic Cinema
Over the past 17 years /Cine-Excess/ has developed a reputation as an
inclusive and safe space in which to present new work around global cult
film cultures. We welcome submissions from emerging and established and
scholars, activists, film makers and community groups.
//
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by *Friday
25^th August 2023* to:
John Atkinson
Editorial Lead of /Cine-Excess/
(john.atkinson /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) <mailto:(john.atkinson /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>
Professor Xavier Mendik
Director of /Cine-Excess/
(xavier.mendik /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) <mailto:(Xavier.Mendik /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>
A final listing of accepted presentations will be released on *Thursday
31^st August 2023.***
We will subsequently invite a limited number of participants to rework
their papers for inclusion in the sixth edition of the /Cine-Excess/
journal, for publication in spring 2024.
The conference component of /Cine-Excess/ 2023 takes place between 18^th
-20^th October 2023. Delegates are invited to present either in person
or online for this year’s conference, and participants should indicate
their preference when submitting their conference proposal. We have
adopted this hybrid structure to ensure that the event remains
accessible and inclusive to international and low-waged scholars.
Delegate fees for in person attendance at the conference and related
in-person/streamed screenings and filmmaker talks are *£150/£75
(concessions).* Delegate fees for virtual attendance at the conference
and related streamed screenings and filmmaker talks are *£100/£50
(concessions).*
For further information visit: https://bit.ly/CECFP <https://bit.ly/CECFP>
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