1.Collective Imaginaries and Spatial Tactics in Southeast Asian Moving Image Practice

Chair: Tyler Parks (University of St Andrews)

• Jasmine Nadua Trice (UCLA): Southeast Asian Film as Spatial Practice

• Philippa Lovatt (University of St Andrews): Eyedropper Fill’s tactical “re-imaginings” of the city

• Bunga P. Siagian (University of Indonesia): Rethinking What Seems to Be Limited: On Contemporary Indonesian Cinema Culture

2. New Methodologies for Collaborative Research

Chair: Lucy Fife Donaldson (University of St Andrews)

• Mani Sharpe (University of Leeds): Film, mental health, and COVID-19: a case study of the facing the mind project

• David Hartley & Ethan Lyon (University of Manchester & University of Southampton): The Autism Through Cinema Podcast: Collaborative Explorations of Autism on Screen

• Christine Rogers & Catherine Gough-Brady (Queen’s University, Belfast & JMC Academy): Oak tree, gum tree: Screen collaborations across time zones

Watch the film here.

3. Performance and the Body

Chair: Zoë Shacklock (University of St Andrews)

• Michael Morgan (University of Kent): “Intimate Gestures: Collaborative Interactions Within the Artisanal Mode of Film Production”

• Sarah Byrne (University of Reading): Communicating An Experience: The Textual Collaboration of Film & Theatre in UK Livecasting

• Christina Wilkins (University of Birmingham): Adaptation, cross-pollination, and the body

4. British Realism

Chair: Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (University of St Andrews)

• Jonathan Atkinson (University of Glasgow): Rewilding the Political Analysis of British Film Theory, One ‘Field in England’ at a Time

• Jonny Smith (University of Manchester): ‘Tough, Honest, Powerful & Brutal’: Examining the Relationship Between Masculinity & Brutalist Architecture in British Cinema

• David Forrest (University of Sheffield): Kes, Looks and Smiles and the Collaborative Poetics of Realist Cinema

5. Collaboration and Contemporary Working Practices in Music for Film, Television, and Promotional Media

Chair: Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews)

• Bernadette Pace (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Whole Mechanisms of How We Work Has Been Turned Around’: The Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer Collaboration

• Toby Huelin (University of Leeds): Compartmentalised Collaboration? Library Music in Factual Television Production

• Melissa Morton (University of Edinburgh): ‘It was a natural kind of partnership’: Collaborations between composers and graphic designers in the production of channel idents

1. Conceptual collaboration: contingency, confusion, and critical uncertainty in The Human Surge

Chair: Lucy Fife Donaldson (University of St Andrews)

• Dominic Lash (University of Bristol): Transition and confusion in The Human Surge

• Hoi Lun Law (University of Edinburgh): Between obviousness and obscurity: The Human Surge and film criticism

• Lara Perski (Witten-Herdecke University, Germany): Dark and Cluttered: Contingency as a Stylistic Strategy in The Human Surge

2. Animation SIG: Collaboration and Cross-Pollination in Animated Superhero Television

Chair: Eve Benhamou (BAFTSS ETC REP)

• Andrew Corsini (Oxford Brooks University): ’The Battle over Superman’: The Mid-sixties fight over Cartoon Content

• Maliha Miriam (Canterbury Christ Church University): Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors and Steven Universe: How women are successfully utilising intermedial exchanges and transmedia approaches to bypass traditional pathways to create inclusive, authentic and critically acclaimed content

• Sam Summers (Middlesex University): Fun For All The ‘Family’: Adapting the Fast & Furious Franchise as Animated Children’s Television

3. East Asian Screen Cultures SIG: Hong Kong Cinema: A New Era?

Chair: Tyler Parks (University of St Andrews)

• Kristof Van den Troost (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Hong Kong Cinema: Non-National Allegory in the Non-Third World

• Victor Fan (King’s College London): From Extraterritoriality to Extratemporality: Contemporary Media and Politics in Hong Kong

• Ruby Cheung (University of Southampton): The 2010s Hong Kong Film Industry and Collective Directorship

4. Transnational SIG: Women Across Nations: depictions, representations, and practices

Chair: Yael Friedman (University of Portsmouth)

• Fraser Cornall (Lancaster University): Fusing the New Waves: The Lonely Woman + Home (Cornall,2020)

The film: Home

• Zoe Crombie (Lancaster University): Animated Women - Adaptation, Howl's Moving Castle, and Depictions of Womanhood

• Kingsley Akam (Lancaster University): Transnational Cinema and Relatability of Ideological Cross-Pollination towards Gender Balance in Oboli’s Wives on Strike (2016)

5. Film studios as popular culture

Chair: Paul Flaig (University of St Andrews)

• Richard Farmer (University of Bristol): Radio, television and film studios in interwar Britain

• Eleanor Halsall (University of Southampton): German film studios in crime fiction and film

• Catherine O’Rawe (University of Bristol): Film studios in 1950s Italian cinema

6. Violence and Vulnerability in Documentary

Chair: Bella Honess Roe (University of Surrey)

• Maria Flood (Liverpool University): Meeting the Enemies: The Affective Politics of Collaboration in Deeyah Khan’s White Right and Jihad

• George S. Larke-Walsh (University of Sunderland): Sharing images of death and grief: collaborative testimonies against the power of the mafia in documentary

• Patrick Brian Smith (University of Warwick): Forensics of Multiplicity: From Forum to Fora

1. Lab/Collab: Exchange, Circulation and The Film Laboratory

Chair: Lucy Fife Donaldson (University of St Andrews)

• Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (University of St Andrews): Indian Laboratories in the 1950s: Global Collaborations

• Anke Wilkening (Utrecht University): Film Restoration as Active Film History Writing

2. Film in the Garden

Chair: Elizabeth Watkins (University of Leeds)

• Tom Cuthbertson (Newcastle University): Loving a disappearing (self-) image: Louise Bourque’s Self Portrait Post Mortem (2002)

• Sarah Cooper (King’s College London): Paper Flowers: From Cross-Pollination to Parallel Botany in The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021)

• Eszter Simor (Sam Houston State University): An Existentialist Reading of Contemporary Murderous Plant Science-fiction

3. Co-creating Filmmaking Education

Chair: Lee-Jane Bennion-Nixon (University of Greenwich)

• Emily McIntosh (Middlesex University)

• Robert Munro (Queen Margaret University)

• Chris Nunn (University of Greenwich)

4. Investigating Authorship

Chair: Hoi Lun Law (University of Edinburgh)

• Will Kitchen (University of Southampton): The Lost Crusade: Lindsay Anderson’s Unmade Sequel to If… (1968)

• Dalila Missero (Oxford Brookes University): Gender, Migration and Transatlantic Documentaries. Interviewing Latin-American Women Directors