[Commlist] Call for Papers & Videoessays: Besides the Screen Ningbo 2025

**CFP: Besides the Screen Ningbo 2025: Collaboration, Co-Production & 
Translation**
University of Nottingham Ningbo China, June 5-7, 2025

- Deadline for submissions February 10, 2025
- Apply at https://forms.office.com/r/CEM9ccg8Mh 
<https://forms.office.com/r/CEM9ccg8Mh>

The Besides the Screen network seeks to examine the continuing 
transformation of audiovisual practices by focusing on its underlying 
objects, processes and materials. For fifteen years, the network has put 
together more than a dozen publications and events addressing subjects 
such as infrastructures of distribution, marketing and promotion, 
archives, curating, volumetric imaging, and algorithmic filmmaking.

In 2025, the Besides the Screen conference returns to the city of Ningbo 
to survey the state of the media, culture and creative industries field, 
while exploring the various ways in which agency is distributed and 
negotiated across borders – whether institutional, spatial, linguistic, 
or technological. Cinema, a quintessentially modern art form, has been 
cooperative from the outset. The industrial nature of filmmaking has 
often required not only a vast workforce but also an unprecedented 
combination of expertise, much of which has been embedded in the devices 
of media production. The increasingly complex economy of the moving 
image has expanded the scope of these collaborations both territorially 
and technologically. On the one hand, initiatives like transnational 
co-production agreements aim to uproot the geopolitics of filmmaking by 
optimizing access to resources, funding, markets, and talent. On the 
other, systems such as virtual environments and AI agents promises to 
wrap all forms of media labour and expression around them.

With these phenomena in mind, this conference seeks to address questions 
such as:

- How are these new collaborative arrangements reshaping the limits of 
audiovisual practices and circulation?
- What enables the translation across the multiple cultures, systems, 
and intelligences that audiovisual media bring together?
- What new artforms may emerge or diverge from their operation?

Related research areas include:

- Cultural and Creative Industries
- Film, TV, and Screen Studies
- Game Studies
- Digital Humanities and Emerging Technologies
- New media, contemporary, and performance arts

The conference is open to both short papers and films/video essays (up 
to 20 minutes). Submissions should be made through the online form 
available at besidesthescreen.com <http://besidesthescreen.com>.

Paper proposals require title, 3-5 keywords, abstract (300 words max), 
and a short author affiliation/bio (200 words max). Short film/video 
essays proposals require title, link (with password if required), 3-5 
keywords, synopsis or artist statement (300 words max), and a short 
author affiliation/bio (200 words max)

**Submission deadline: Feb 10, 2025.* *We will accept submissions up to 
midnight in the proponent’s time zone. Selected participants will be 
notified at the beginning of March.

If you experience any issues with the submission form, please email 
(besidesthescreen /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(besidesthescreen /at/ gmail.com)> with the 
email header **NINGBO25 –Submission issue**. Please note: email 
submissions will not be accepted.

Besides the Screen Ningbo 2025 is organized by Dr. Corey Schultz (UNNC), 
Dr. Virginia Crisp (King’s College London), and Dr. Gabriel Menotti 
(Queen’s University). The conference is funded by the University of 
Nottingham Ningbo China’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Conference and 
Event Organising Support Scheme.
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