The NECS 2012 Conference:
Time Networks: Screen and Media Memory
Lisbon, 21.june – 23.june 2012
hosted by the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra
During the conference, the following papers about reseach on documentary film will be presented:
THURSDAY 21st JUNE 2012. 9-10:45.
Panel A1. Film Time and Feminist Phenomenology:
Delphine Bénézet (London). Agnès Varda, a Woman within History
Panel A7. Changing practices of memory staging: The cultural dynamics of home movies:
Susan Aasman (Groningen) From archival desire to performative pleasures. The changing status of home movies in the digital age
Annamaria Motrescu (Cambridge) ’Cross-genre’ home movies, religious narratives and British imperial studies
Martina Roepke (Amsterdam) Private images, public viewing. Extending the home mode of communication
Alexandra Schneider (Amsterdam) Towards a Media Archaeology of the Home Movie – Private Filmmaking in the Age of Network Culture
Panel A9. Time, Memory and Place. Symbolic Constructions in Documentary and Avant-garde Film
María Soliña Barreiro (Barcelona) “History must be burned”: Temporal iconoclasm as politics of memory in the Interwar’s Avant-garde
Iván Villarmea Álvarez (Zaragoza) The memory of places: Patrick Keiller’s psychogeographical documentaries
María Luna (Barcelona) Breaking times: Documentary representation in places of forced displacement
Diego Zavala Scherer (Monterrey, Mexico) Mythic and Non-Mythic Representations of Mexican Revolution through Documentary
Panel A10. Power of Programming: Festivals, Identity and Politics
Dunja Jelenkovic (Versailles) Role of Politics in Selection of Film Programs – Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film Festival in the Time of Wars of 1990s
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11.00 – 12.45
Panel B4. Myths, Emotions and Oblivions. Recovery of Francoist Francoist Memory in Spanish Documentary (chair: Aida Vallejo Vallejo, Madrid).
Elena Oroz (Tarragona) Women in blue over a background of stone. The gendered articulation of national history in Francoist cinematographic propaganda (1939-1945)
Laura Gómez Vaquero (Madrid) Memory and women in the Spanish documentary film of the 70´s: crisis, melancholy and confession
Sonia García López (Madrid) Filling up the memory holes. Alzheimer disease and recent history in Spanish documentary
Panel B7. Non-Theatrical Memories
Louis Pelletier (Montreal) Showmanship in the Home: The Multiple Temporalities of Amateur Cinema
Eric Poirier (Montreal) Archives of Happiness: the Social Role of Home Movies
Caroline Martel (Montreal) Whose Memory? Industrial Images and Representations
Panel B8. Filmic temporalities: transitions and intersections between genres, formats and technologies of memory
Arild Fetveit (Copenhagen) The role of fiction in essay films
Laura Rascaroli (Cork) Memory in transit: the essay film and the flitting image of the past
Efrén Cuevas (Navarra) The aura of home movies: time and memory in the transition from analogical to digital film
Stefano Odorico (Bremen) Reality, memory and digital technologies in interactive documentaries
B9. Docudrama and the Reprocessing of History
Chair: Tobias Ebbrecht (Weimar) and Derek Paget (Reading)
Bergström Åsa (Lund) Swedish Mediated Memories – A Historical Journey Through the Borderlands of Fact and Fiction
Milly Buonanno (Roma) The Politics of memory and Identity in Contemporary Italian TV Drama
Georges Fournier (Lyon) Docudrama and the Revisiting of History
Victoria Pastor-González (London) From the Local to the Universal, Spanish Docudrama Tackles World History
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13:45-15:30
Panel C7. Archival Practices
Chris Wahl ((Potsdam-Babelsberg) Flashback to the Moment of Shooting: The Archival Image in Slow Motion
Andrea Meuzelaar (Amsterdam) Muslims in the Archive of Sound and Vision: Navigating Television History Through the Archival Prism
Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt) A Medium of Amnesia: Film, the Archive, and the Anthropological Revolution of Recorded Time
Sebastian Höglinger (Vienna) Pictures in the Sky: 19th Century’s Superlative Image-Archives in Between Science and Fiction
Panel C9. Theorising Documentary Film
Annelies van Noortwijk (Groningen) Representations of Memory in Contemporary Documentary
Salomé Lamas (Coimbra) Problems of Translation and Critique in Documentary Cinema
Manuela Penafria (Covilhã) Emotions in Documentary Film
Panel C10. Key Festival Challenges: Past, Present and Future
Aida Vallejo Vallejo (Madrid) Festival Dependencies. Documentary, Europe and the Crisis
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15.45 – 17.30
Panel D1. Painting a Hypnotic Image: “Regressive” Reflections of Cinematic Mediality and Memory
Király Hajnal (Lisbon) Photographic Stills, Tableaux Vivants as Sites of Cinematic Memory in Manuel de Oliveira’s Films
Panel D3. Portuguese Cinematic Memories of Conflict
Susana Viegas (Lisbon) An art of the past, an art of the present: Susana de Sousa Dias’ 48
Daniel Ribas (Aveiro/Bragança) Disturbed Families: film and violence in João Canijo
D6. Avant-Garde Cinema
Lydia Nsiah (Vienna) Unifying Rhythm in Animation: Len Lye’s Avant-gardistic Advertising Film The Birth of the Robot
Rebecca Sheehan (Cambridge, USA) “Keeping You in the Present”: Ernie Gehr, Stan Brakhage and the Mind out of Time
Pedro Rodrigues (Lisbon) “The Past and the Present”: Music, Memory and Avant-Garde in the Portuguese Cinema Novo
D7. Archive/Found Footage and Memory
Judit Pieldner (Cluj-Napoca) Media Memory: The Temporality of Archive Footage in Gábor Bódy’s Films
Daniel Kulle (Hamburg) Remememememememememememememememememembering Media History: Found Footage, Loops and the Experimental Films of Martin Arnold
Malin Wahlberg (Stockholm) Revelation and Enactment of TV Memories: “Found Footage” and the Untold Story of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Veronika Rall (Zurich) Cinema as Mnemotopia: Memory, Archive and Archeology in Films-About-Cinema
D9. TV and Documentary
Anna Zoellner (Leeds) Was Everything Better in the Good Old Days?: Documentary Production for Television
Susan Ericsson (Montreal) Teen Recollection of Early Sexual Practices: Representational and Narrative Strategies in the Documentary Middle School Confessions
Samara Chadwick (EMJD – Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones) The Truth Lies in its Avoidance: New Breeds of Non-Fiction Film
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18.00 – 19.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent) Experiencing Time between Fiction and Documentary: Memory, Affect and the Digital
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FRIDAY 22nd JUNE 2012
09.00 – 10.45
Panel E9. Tackling Trauma
Aine O’Healy (Los Angeles) Trauma, Memory, and Audiovisual Activism: Documenting Mediterranean Migrations
Ingrid Ryberg (Stockholm) Dare Remember: Sexual Trauma, Temporality and Documentary as Therapy.
11.00 – 12.45
Panel F3. Portuguese Cinema
Nuno Barradas Jorge (Nottingham) Fragmented Memory: Remembrance and Oblivion in the Work of Pedro Costa
Patricia Vieira (Washington) The Instant and the Event in the Cinema of Pedro Costa
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13.45 – 15.30
Panel G3. European National Memories
Sanjin Pejkovic (Lund) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Documentary Images of Josip Broz Tito After 1989
G7. Archive/Found Footage and Politics
Daniela Agostinho (Lisbon) The Ghetto (Re-)framed: Inhabiting the Nazi Gaze in A Film Unfinished
Mats Jönsson (Lund) Innocence by Association
Feigelson Kristian (Paris) Traces of Terezin (1944)
Liz Greene (Belfast) Documenting Time Through the Archives in Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (2011, Lelia Doolan)
Panel G9. Two and Three Dimensions
Jesko Jockenhövel (Potsdam-Babelsberg) Space and Time in 3D Documentaries: Wim Wender’s Pina and Werner Herzog’s The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Maja Manojlovic (Los Angeles) The Space-Time of 3D: In the Intervals/Interstices of The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Asli Ozgen-Tuncer (Amsterdam) Aesthetics of Mo(ve)ment: From The Cave of Forgotten Dreams to Early Cinema
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15.45 – 17.30 PANELS H1 – H10
Panel H2. (Re)Writing History
Diana Popa (St. Andrews) The Great Communist Bank Robbery (2004): “Rememorizing” the Past
Panel H3. Political Views on Screen
Ruzanna Amiraghyan (Yerevan, Armenia) Online Media and the Political Processes in Armenia
Walid el Houri (Amsterdam) Streets, Screens and People in the Arab Uprising
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18.00 – 19.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Andreas Fickers (Universiteit Maastricht)
Analogue Memory Machines: A Techno-Melancholic Retrospective
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SATURDAY 23rd JUNE 2010
09.00 – 10.45 PANELS I1 – I10
Panel I2. Traveling and Public spaces
Hedwig Wagner (Weimar) Fiction Borders — Border Fictions: On Chantal Akerman’s Border Travelings
Panel I3. Excavating Political, Cinematic and Personal Memories
Stella Bruzzi (Warwick) Memory, Re-enactment and Equivalent Events
Panel I5. Film as the Screen and the Mirror of Culture and Consciousness
Ilda Teresa de Castro (Lisbon) Costello´s Holocaust: images of horror in Resnais and Monson
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11.00 – 12.45 PANELS J1 – J8
Panel J2. Bergson and Film
Catarina Mourão (Edinburgh) Ghosts in the House of Gávea: Daydreaming and forgetting in Santiago, a Feature Documentary by João Moreira Salles
Panel J3. Orienting Europe: Borders of Memory
Isabel Dzierson (Konstanz) An Ear for Little Aliens: Documentary Narratives of Undocumented Migration into the EU
Marco Purpura (Berkeley) Migrant Stardom and Racial Masquerade: Fabrizio Gatti’s Undercover Journalism between Literature, Documentary, and New Media
Alex Lambrow (Berkeley) Auschwitz as Heritage Site: Regimes of Circulation in Thalheim’s Am Ende kommen Touristen
Respondent: Deniz Göktürk (Berkeley)
13.45 – 15.30 PANELS K1 – K10
Panel K8. Television’s New Spaces of Participation
Berber Hagedoorn (Utrecht) The performance of cultural memory in multi-platform TV documentary
15.45 – 17.30 PANELS L1 – L10
Panel L6. Video Sharing and Social Networks
Abigail Keating (Cork) The Interactive Home Movie: Individual and Collective Memory in the Age of Web 2.0
Panel L9. Film and History
Susana Duarte (Lisbon) Only Cinema Can Tell History: Jean-Luc Godard, Archaeologist of Images
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