Day 2

4.1 Animals SLB0006

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

4.2 Surveillance ATB0109

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

4.3 A Field of Green? ATB0107

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

4.4 Videogames and XR ATB0111

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

4.5 American Cinema MB0312

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)   

4.6 Early Career Researcher and Job Search Support Roundtable: Research and Teaching Pathways MB0302

CHAIRS: Eve Benhamou and Kate Taylor-Jones

Xi Liu, Steven Roberts, Jaap Verheul and Christina Wilkins 

5.1 Special Interest Group: Performance and Stardom SLB0006

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

5.2 Special Interest Group: Amateur Film ATB0109

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

5.3 Special Interest Group: French and Francophone Cinemas ATB0107

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)

5.4 Ecological Filmmaking and Art Film ATB0111

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)

5.5 Decolonising Methods: Theory and Philosophy MB0312

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

5.6 Special Interest Group: Colour MB0302

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  

6.1 Transforming Middlemarch SLB0006

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  

6.2 Screening Chinese eco-aesthetics ATB0109

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

6.3 Working Conditions and Equalities ATB0107

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?

6.4 Histories ATB0111

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

6.5 Environment and Indigenous Communities MB0312

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

6.6 Futures Past MB0302

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

7.1 Sustainable Production SLB0006

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

7.2 Special Interest Group: Film Philosophy ATB0109

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

7.3 Special Interest Group: Screening Sex ATB0107

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

7.4 Global Politics & Infrastructures ATB0111

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

7.5 British Television MB0312

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.

VR and Installation ATB2211

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.