Tuesday 4 April 2023
CHAIR: Gábor Gergely
Sophie Quin
Of elk and wolves: Extinction and evocations of species from the Irish animated bestiary
Lucas Rinzema
Care and Cow
Özlem Güçlü
Devouring Gaze of Bluefish: Subordination of Animal Life in The Sustainability Discourse
CHAIR: Lin Feng
Jonathan Murray
The Spy Writer Who came in from the Cold: post 1989 screen adaptations of John le Carré
Joseph Bitney
Surveillance Cinema, The Future, and The Interior
Yushi Hou
The environment in Contemporary Chinese Surveillance Cinema: The “naked city” and Ethics
CHAIR: Bella Honess Roe
Rebecca Harrison and Syuhaida Mohamed Yunus
Metals, Mouldings, and Trash Compactors: Artoo Detoo and the Environmental Impact of Star Wars
Malcolm Cook
Full Circle: Useful Animation, Petroleum Extraction, and Research-Led Teaching
Caitriona Noonan and Inge Sørensen
European Screen Agencies and Sustainability: Interventions for Greening the Screen
CHAIR: TBC
Bjarke Liboriussen
The unintended procedural argument for transactional climate change leadership in Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
Maggie Xiaoge Li
Rebuilding Lost Memory in Digital Games
Maruša Levstek
Green Planet: XR to Change Minds About Our Planet
CHAIR: Gregory Frame
Tim Lindemann
‘History Isn’t Here Yet‘ – Landscape, Entanglement, and the Nation in First Cow and Meek’s Cutoff
Michelle Devereaux
The Woman Who Left: Nomadland, Moral Perfectionism, and the ‘Unknown Woman’ of Neoliberalism
Alan Watt
Morality and hypermorality in film storytelling: Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (1992)
CHAIRS: Eve Benhamou and Kate Taylor-Jones
Xi Liu, Steven Roberts, Jaap Verheul and Christina Wilkins
CHAIR: Hannah Andrews
Christopher Holliday
“A poor attempt to replicate my work”: The remixed soundcapes of digital de-aging
Jennifer O’Meara
From Soft Focus to AR filters: the Evolving, Technologically-Designed Face of Female Stardom
Szilvia Ruszev
New identities of virtual stardom: How do virtual influencers change or maintain social stereotypes?
Sarah Thomas
Trust, authenticity and agency in the celebrity digital double
CHAIR: Annamaria Motrescu-Mayers
Alyssa Grossman
Transcending Domestic Ethnography: Haptic Remediations of a Family Archive
Zoë Viney Burgess
Towards the next century of amateur film archives: writing ourselves into history
Karianne Fiorini and Gianmarco Torri
A (possible) handbook for the creative re-use of home movies
CHAIR: Kate Ince
Martin Hall
Form Meets Message: Documentary Style and Social Justice in Agnes Varda’s Feature Work
Tamsin Graves
Prioritising the marginalised voice: Sustainable storytelling in the abandoned spaces of Gatlif’s Indignados (2012)
Laura McMahon
Care, solidarity and entanglement in Khady Sylla’s Une fenêtre ouverte (2005)
CHAIR: Muriel Tinel-Temple
Esther Johnson
DUST & METAL: a cinematic reflection on Vietnam’s love affair with motorbikes
Silvia Angeli
An Ode to Impermanence: Alice Rohrwacher’s Quattro strade (Four Roads, 2020)
Tina Kandiashvili
“Something Terrible about Reality”: Environment and Plato’s Epistemology in Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964)
CHAIR: Kate Taylor-Jones
May Adadol Ingawanij
Animistic Apparatus as a Curatorial Method
Victor Fan
The Way It Is: Buddhist Ecological Thinking on Power and Knowledge
Kiki Tianqi Yu
Cinema as the Dao: A Daoist approach to moving images as Decolonising Knowledge Production
CHAIR: Liz Watkins
Eleanor Halsall
Experimenting in colour: The film studio as laboratory in Germany
Sarah Street
Encounters with Colour at Denham Studios
Carla Mereu Keating
Blinding lights: Ferraniacolor and the hazards of working with novel film technologies
CHAIR: Johnny Walker
Justin Smith
Adding value to BBC IP – A sustainable approach to PSB archives and fair use exceptions to copyright law: the case of Andrew Davies’ 1994 BBC adaptation of Middlemarch
Anna Blackwell and Lucinda Hobbs
(Ir)/responsible adaptation: editing, designing and building a genetic edition for the Transforming Middlemarch project
Natalie Hayton
Democratising Adaptations and Discovering the Archive: confronting issues of ethics, representation, custodianship and copyright in the creation of a Genetic Edition of Andrew Davies’ 1994 BBC adaptation of George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch
CHAIR: Yushi Hou
Shiqin Zhang
(Un)gendering the Dump: Waste, Body, and Affect in Plastic China and When the Bough Breaks
Xi Liu
Slow living: re-editing space and time in short videos
Poppy Qian Zhai
What is a sustainable city? To brand Copenhagen as an attractive destination in China
CHAIR: Bella Honess Roe
Dyna Herlina Suwarto
Creative Hustle as Coping Practice of Precarity among Local Filmmakers
Christa van Raalte, Rowan Aust and Richard Wallis
Where have all the PMs gone? The importance of sustainable working environments in addressing persistent skills gaps in UK TV
Rayna Lountzis
Mental Health On/Off Set: Fostering inclusive working practices in the Film and TV Industry - a British Academy Innovation Fellowship analysis
Mrunal Chavda
Mind the Himalayan Gap: does the brutal gender imbalance in the Gujarati Cinema reflect Gujarati society?
CHAIR: Lin Feng
James Chapman
The Patient Who Refused to Die: The economic and fiscal sustainability of the British film production industry
Hannah Andrews
(Un)Sustainable Satire: Spitting Image in the eras of Thatcher and Johnson
Lizzie Thynne
A feminist revisioning of British Documentary history
CHAIR: Billy Errington
Sofie Roberts
Wales and the Green Screen: Sustainability and Environment in Welsh Filmmaking
Adelaide McGinity-Peebles
Precarious Nature and Identity in the Indigenous Cinema of the Sakha Republic (Russian Federation)
Anna Sowa
“The worst thing you can do to the environment is to make a film about it” … but it does not have to be...
Rachel Gough
A Force of Nature: Film Production as Environmental Threat on Skellig Michael
CHAIR: Chris Holliday
Harry Warwick
Cathedral of Power: Battersea Power Station in Dystopian Visual Culture
Hannah Spaulding
Remembering QUBE: Digital Afterlives, Cable, and Sustaining “Failed” Technologies
CHAIR: Christa VanRaalte
Tom Livingstone
Rigged for Scalability: Game Engines and Sustainable Futures
Muriel Tinel-Temple
Digital Landscapes: movements and metamorpheses in the work of Jacques Perconte
Jack Shelbourn
New Naturalism and Writing a New Film Production Manifesto
CHAIR: Dominic Lash
Lucy Bolton
The Difficulty of Thinking Perpetually on Oneself: Iris Murdoch’s Existentialism on show in French Exit
Kierran Horner
Existential Conflict versus an Ethical Self: Intersubjective Relations and Mortality in Beauvoir, Sartre and Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7
Xi Lu
The War Film and Existentialism: All Quiet on the Western Front
David Sorfa
The Lad Meets the Existentialists: Tony Hancock, The Rebel and Rendezvous in July
CHAIR: Darren Kerr
Simon Hobbs and Megan Hoffman
Confronting a Genre: The Ethical Implications of Post #MeToo True Crime
Tia Price
True Crime Dark Fandom: The Dominatrix and The Dildo
Tanya Horeck
True Crime TikTok: On Ethics and Algorithms
CHAIR: Mayram Ghorbankarimi
Katerina Loukopoulou
The United Nations’ Cinematic Worldmaking of a Sustainable future: the Case of Power Among Men (1959)
Cristina Formenti
Towards the Eco-documentary of the Future: Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography (2021) and the Route to Eco-sustainable Documentary Filmmaking
María A. Vélez-Serna
Anti-infrastructural media: Reuse and detournement of sponsored film in environmental conflicts
Nikki J.Y. Lee
An Ecocritical Approach to Discourses on the Korean Film Industry: A Preliminary Exploration of the Environmental Turn
CHAIR: Jeongmee Kim
Helen Kennedy and Natalie Wreyford
Motherhood, television work and the crisis in care
Faye Woods
Death of a matriarch: EastEnders soap opera space and aesthetics
Alexander Sergeant and Evan Pugh
The Ethics of Reality Television: Understanding UK Production Cultures
Screen-based Practice Research Nominees. ATB2120
The films will be available to play from the laptop set up by the wall-mounted cabinet in the Screening Room. Please select the film you wish to see from the OneDrive folder open on the screen. Please make sure not to close the OneDrive folder and to leave it open for the next person or group.
If the system has (been) powered down or the settings have been changed before your visit, please turn on the projector with the power button on the right hand side of the side panel of the projector as you look at it with the wall mounted cabinet behind you. Turn on the amplifier and select Media Player. The image should now appear on the screen. Use the volume button to adjust the sound to the required level. Please don't be shy about turning it up loud if you wish.
The Annual General Meeting and Awards Ceremony will be held in SLB0006. All are welcome to attend. The more attend, the more democratic any decision the AGM may make can be.