Day 3:

Friday 22 April

9.00 - 10.15 Session G

1.Water, Heat, Earth: Film and the Natural World

Chair: Patrick Adamson (University of St Andrews)

  • Nina Halton-Hernandez (University of Southampton): Imagining and imaging coastal change - communicating the climate crisis through documentary style

  • Kseniia Bespalova (University of Amsterdam): Caucasian Encounters: The Planetary Consciousness in Balagov’s Closeness

  • Yue Su (University of Warwick & Nagoya University): The Thermal Spaces of Kinship in Shoplifters (Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2018)

2. “Marvel Women Then and Now: Reflections on Gender in Marvel Superhero Films from the 2000s to the Present”

Chair: Becky Bartlett (University of St Andrews)

  • Lucy Cargill (King’s College London): “The only natural resource that the world has too much of - girls”: Black Widow and the fatal complacency of #NotAllMen

  • Miriam Kent (University of Leeds): From Elektra to Captain Marvel: Contextualising Marvel’s Pre- and Post-MCU Superheroines

  • Christopher Holliday (King’s College London): Marvel’s Recessionary Superheroes and the Unruly Women 2.0

3. Queer Aesthetics

Chair: Liz Greene (University of Reading)

  • Polina Zelmanova (University of Warwick): Queering cinema’s visual politics through musicology: the queer potential of music in Vita and Virginia and Portrait of a Lady on Fire

  • AJ Bravo (University of Kent): “Bonding” vs “CAM”: The co-opting of sex working narratives across non-pornographic media

  • Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz (National University of Ireland, Galway): Cross-media Interactions in Punk Aesthetics on Screen

4. Collaboration and Constraint: Set Design practices in French, Italian and British studios in the 1940s

Chair: Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (University of St Andrews)

  • Sue Harris (Queen Mary University of London): The logistics of set building at Joinville studios during wartime occupation: Nous les Gosses (Louis Daquin, 1941)

  • Carla Mereu Keating (University of Bristol): ’Wizards of illusion’ in times of realism: Spectacular sets and costumes in post-war Italy

  • Sarah Street (University of Bristol): Collaborative Ingenuity: Sets in British Studios in the 1940s

5. Crafting and grafting images: Collaboration between visual artists and documentary filmmakers

Chair: Sanghita Sen (University of St Andrews)

  • Rossella Schillaci (University of Manchester): Animation and VR documentary: grafts of imaginary on (virtual) reality

  • Valentina Bonifacio (Ca' Foscari University, Venice): Crafting images: a collaboration between an artist and an anthropologist

  • Alexandra D’Onofrio (University of Manchester): Animating the possible as part of collaborative ethnographic documentaries on migration

10.45 - 12.00 Session H

1. Practice Research SIG in association with Screenworks: Accessible Filmmaking

Chair: Charlotte Crofts (UWE Bristol)

  • Kate Dangerfield & Pablo Romero Fresco (University of Roehampton, London & Universidade di Vigo, Spain): ‘From the Universal to the Self in Media Accessibility: Accessibility as a Conversation’

  • Shweta Ghosh & Priyanka Pal (University of Reading): We Make Film: Accessibility and Inclusion in Film Practice Research Projects

2. Horror Studies SIG: Children’s culture and the horror genre

Chair: Kate Egan (Northumbria University)

  • Victoria Mullins (University of Cambridge): Cat Flu and Mousekeeping: The symbiotic abjection and sanitization of Escape from Tomorrow (2013)

  • Jay Bamber (University of Roehampton): Unmother Lands: The Evil Queen and Her Villainous (Not Quite) Daughters

  • Catherine Lester (University of Birmingham): The Kids Are All White?: race, identity and privilege in children’s horror cinema

3. Archives and Archival Methods SIG: Collaboration and Cross-Pollination in the Archives

Chair: Llewella Chapman (University of East Anglia)

  • Wendy Russell (British Film Institute)

  • Gil Toffell (British Universities Film and Video Council)

  • Toby Haggith (Imperial War Museum)

  • Georgina Orgill (Stanley Kubrick Archive, University of the Arts London)

4. Euro-Bollywood SIG: Forms of Cultural Hybridity in Indo-European Collaborations

Chair: Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (University of St Andrews)

  • Bernhard Fuchs (University of Vienna): Swiss Bollywood

  • Györgyi Vajdovich (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary): Hungary created through the fantasies of Bollywood

  • Dorottya Fejes-Jancsó (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary): Hungary Goes to Bollywood – Cross-cultural references of Liza, the Fox Fairy (2015) and Aafat-e-Ishq (2021)

5. Post-Media: Recombining, Remediating, and Reappropriating Screen Cultures

Chair: Patrick Adamson (University of St Andrews)

  • Jenna Ng (University of York): The Post-Screen

  • Nick Jones (University of York): Screen Mirroring: The Intermedial Graphic User Interface

  • Karim Townsend (University of Cambridge): “The revolution starts here”: HBO’s Enlightened and ecological realignment in the age of social media

6. Cross-Pollination between Film and Television

Chair: Zoë Shacklock (University of St Andrews)

  • Louise Coopey (University of Birmingham): Collaborative direction in complex TV: Interrogating Game of Thrones’ (2011-2019) multiple director model

  • Freyja McCreery (University of York): The Genderfication of the MCU

  • Damien Pollard (University of Cambridge): Hybridising Voices: 1980s Italian Horror Films, American Television and Formal Cross-Pollination

12.00 - 12.30 SIG meetings


1.30 - 2.30 Plenary

Practice as Research Award Viewing

You can watch the Practice as Research Award submissions here: https://www.baftss.org/practice-research-awards-2022.html

2.30 - 3.45 Session I

1. Images of Childhood

Chair: Jasmine Nadua Trice (UCLA)

  • Andrés Buesa (University of Zaragoza, Spain): Children Film Themselves: Agency, Mobility, and Inequality in A Dramatic Film (2019)

  • Jane Batkin (University of Lincoln): Childhood and its Cross-Pollination in Cinema: Animated Actualities in Elsewhere Worlds

  • Rebecca Rowe & Madeleine Hunter (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley & University of Cambridge): “Only [Adults] in Theatres”: Redefining the Place of Family and Kidult Films During the Pandemic

2. Collaboration and Cross-Pollination in the Works of Claire Denis

Chair: Dominic Lash (University of Bristol)

  • Douglas Morrey (University of Warwick): Stars and Acting in Claire Denis’s Films since 2010

  • Elif Sendur (Rutgers University): Claire Denis, Corporeality and New Weird

  • Peter Sloane (University of Lincoln): ‘A lover's hand? A breath, An abyss’: Tindersticks and The Sound of Loneliness in Claire Denis

3. Documentary Collaboration and Creativity

Chair: Philippa Lovatt (University of St Andrews)

  • Aida Vallejo (University of Edinburgh & University of the Basque Country): Institutes of the documentary film: networking and collaborative practices in the creative industries

  • Alexandra Colta (University of Glasgow): Film Festivals: Between activitism and cinephilia

  • Andrew Moore (University of Edinburgh): The fruits of the in-between: Creativity, Cross-polination and institutional critique in the Sensory Ethnography Lab's Expedition Content (2020)

4. The women behind James Bond

Chair: Becky Bartlett (University of St Andrews)

  • Llewella Chapman (University of East Anglia): The Mistress of Bond: Eileen Sullivan and cutting the cloth of James Bond’s wardrobe

  • James Chapman (University of Leicester): The Invisible Bond Girl: Nikki Van Der Zyl

  • Claire Hines (University of East Anglia): Bond Beauties: Gender, Agency and the Role of Women in the Publicity and Promotion of the 1980s Bond films

5. Theatre/cinema cross-pollination: acting audiences, acting selves, acting times

Chair: Paul Flaig (University of St Andrews)

  • Richard Rushton (Lancaster University): Theatricality and Participation: on Rancière’s Emancipated Spectator

  • Laura Sava (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University): ‘You can’t get innocent twice’: The Performance of ‘Real’ and ‘Acted’ Feeling in Clouds of Sils Maria

  • Ilia Ryzhenko (University of Warwick): Theatricality of the Non-Stop: Theatrical Temporality of the Continuous Take in Victoria

4.15 - 5.30 Plenary

BAFTSS AGM and Awards

The winning publications and practice research awards will be announced at the Annual General Meeting (AGM)