Day 3

Day 3: Making Motion Pictures with the Baby Ciné

[Focus on filmmakers, amateur and others – their films, their practice, their equipment, cine clubs]

Keynote: Dr Ryan Shand (Ravensbourne University London), 'The Social Gauge: 9.5mm and Amateur Cinema Communities'

Programme* Times shown as BST – British Summer Time (GMT/UTC + 1)

10:00-10:15 Welcome & housekeeping

10:15-11.45 Session 1: Panel B

11:45-12.45 Keynote Address: Dr Ryan Shand

12:45-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:45 Session 2

14:45-15:00 Break

15:00-16:15 Session 3

16:15-17:00 Roundtable discussion and close

*Timings subject to change

Programme Detail

10:00-10:15 Welcome & Housekeeping

Session 1 (10:15-11:45) Chair: Professor Keith M. Johnston

Professor Keith M. Johnston, Dr Paul Frith University of East Anglia Dr Enrique Fibla, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE): ‘9.5mm and International Amateur Cinema between the Wars’

Keynote address (11.45-12.45) Dr Ryan Shand

Lunch 12:45-13:15

Session 2 (13.15-14.45 ) Chair: Julia Wack

Steve Hawley (Manchester Metropolitan University) The Outsider; George Higginson, 9.5mm film and the role of the amateur

Guy Barefoot (University of Leicester): Fathers and Sons: The 9.5mm Films of Leslie Barefoot and Peter Barefoot

Eliane Antonia Maurer (Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern): The collection of the 9.5mm Film Club Bern

Melinda Blos Jáni (Sapientia University Cluj Napoca (RO)): Negotiating Media Specificity. Three Amateur Filmmakers in Transylvania from the Interwar Period

Break 14:45-15:00

Session 3 (15:00-16:15) Chair: Dr Ryan Shand

Gaia Bongi and Murielle Vergeres (Cinémathèque Suisse): 9.5 imitating 35, an exploration of René Lecoultre's "Ciné-journal"

Julia Wack (Université du Luxembourg) “If you drop a 9.5 camera, you’ll ruin your tiles, if you drop a Super8, you’ll only find plastic splinters“ - the Self-Perception of 9.5 mm Club Filmmakers in the Greater Region

Vesna Lukić, Thomas Kador, Amara Thornton and Aidan Delaney: Harding’s Pathé Babies: a personal perspective on archaeology and colonialism in British mandate Palestine

Roundtable discussion and close (16:15-17:00)