The Wild Eye: Experimental Film Studies
Date posted: 03/07/2007
The symposium will be held at the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester in 2008.
In order to break what Robert B. Ray defines as the
'path dependency' of contemporary film studies, radically new or reinvented
forms of writing are urgently required. In the words of Bela Balazs 'it will be
an inspiring theory that will fire the imagination of
future seekers for new worlds and creators of new arts'.
Proposals are thus invited for a new edited collection
and a one-day symposium intended to promote experimental approaches to the
analysis of film. Contributions are particularly welcome from individuals or
groups outside of academia. The collection will be
unapologetically fragmentary.
Aiming to offer a modern poetics of cinema, the
collection seeks to embrace the widest possible range of unconventional
techniques.
Contributors are therefore invited to cast off the
straight-jacket of contemporary film writing by drawing on such investigatory
approaches as:
Psychogeography
- Surrealist techniques (e.g. irrational enlargements)
- 'Cinematic' writing
- Autobiography
- Creative non-fiction
- 'Occult' applications
- Fan writing
Send 250 word proposals for texts of between 1000 -
10,000 words to either:
Mark Goodall
or
I.Q. Hunter
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 29 February
2008