[Commlist] CFP: Onscreen Intimacy and Vulnerability: Baltic Screen Media Review Special Issue

*Onscreen Intimacy and Vulnerability ***

*Baltic Screen Media Review* 
<https://reference-global.com/journal/BSMR>*Special Issue: Open Call***

Intimacy and vulnerability on screen are subject to ever-changing norms 
and expectations, and, chiastically, the same expectations and norms are 
subject to ever changing onscreen vulnerability and intimacy. Things are 
changing and there are many examples: the increasingly wide-spread 
employment of intimacy co-ordinators and the concomitant changes in 
professional standards; the way that intimacy is mediated through social 
media platforms which reshape human connections by turning apps and 
algorithms into channels for often intimate and vulnerable personal 
expression; the proliferation of intimacy, nudity, and sexuality on 
prestige television programmes; and the backlash or counter movements 
these changes bring about. These and many other developments raise 
important questions and curiosities in the current decade’s film, media, 
and performance landscapes: how are intimacy and vulnerability 
discussed, shaped, and reconstituted in modern culture? Where does one's 
responsibility lie when encountering/working with screen-based or 
performance-based intimacy and vulnerability? How might we better 
understand the effects of mediation on intimacy and vulnerability?


For this special issue, we take a broader view of intimacy derived from 
the Latin, /intimus,/ (meaning ‘innermost’) and invite contributions 
which consider intimacy as more than sexual but as something emotional, 
physical, intellectual, and social. Intimacy might be what is found at 
the heart of sexual encounters between lovers but it can just as easily 
be found in a quiet conversation with a friend. Meanwhile, vulnerability 
is a quality which is increasingly valorised in the modern world and 
allows for intimacy in all of the aforementioned spheres but is also 
both a voluntary and often involuntary quality which invites 
consideration of how cultural production navigates either eventuality 
responsibly.


Possible sub topics include (but are not limited to):

  * Changes in screen-based representations of intimacy and vulnerability
  * Creating scenes of intimacy for screen or performance
  * Responsible storytelling
  * Transnational screen norms compared to regional traditions
  * The labour of intimacy in small markets
  * Intimacy co-ordination and changing professional standards in film,
    television, and theatre
  * Documentary ethics and vulnerable persons
  * AI and Virtual intimacy
  * Intimacy and social media algorithms
  * Vulnerability as political tool

We welcome contributions from the disciplines of film studies, 
communication and media studies, performance studies, and artistic 
research as well as interdisciplinary contributions. No payment from 
authors will be required.


*Submission* *Deadline: *March 5th 2027


*Please send submissions to*: (mikeakd /at/ tlu.ee) <mailto:(mikeakd /at/ tlu.ee)>


This issue of Baltic Screen Media Review will be published in early 
December 2027.


*Special Issue Editor*: Michael Keerdo-Dawson

*Co-editors:* Indrek Ibrus and Alessandro Nanì.


Dr Michael Keerdo-Dawson is an award-winning Lecturer of Audiovisual 
Storytelling at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (Tallinn 
University); co-lead of MEDIT (Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation 
and Digital Culture); and the co-editor of the Baltic Screen Media 
Review. Keerdo-Dawson specialises in experimental approaches to 
screenwriting, storytelling, and film production. He holds a PhD in 
Audiovisual Arts and Media Studies and has two decades of experience in 
the film and television industry. He has written and directed short and 
feature films selected for prestigious film festivals such as 
FreightFest and Tallinn Black Nights.





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