Day 3

Wednesday 5 April 2023

Session 8: 10:00 - 11:30

8.1 Film Pedagogy SLB0006

CHAIR: Christa VanRaalte

Verena von Eicken

Levelling the playing field – Enabling learning on gender and politics for film students  

Catriona McAvoy

Confronting “Institutional Whiteness” in Research and Practice: Ethics, Responsibility and Solidarity

Tasos Giapoutzis

Student Film Festival: A sustainable project


8.2 Transnational Distribution ATB0109

CHAIR: Justin Smith

Maryam Ghorbankarimi

Sustainable Strategies: Showcasing Middle Eastern content to world audiences

Matthew Hilborn

'Controversies of the Streaming Age – Spain and the Torrente Saga (dir. Santiago Segura, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2014)'


8.3 Film and Ethics ATB0107

CHAIR: Thomas Sutherland

Guy Westwell

Sustainable Futures From Past Lives: Ghandi (1982), Rosa Luxemburg (1986), A Hidden Life (2013) and the Peace Biopic

Libby Saxton

‘The Anguish of the Future’: Iconicity, Sustainability and Mushroom Clouds

Kiki Tianqi Yu

Cultivating a Sense of Oneness Through Cinema and Sustainable Filmmaking Through Daoism

Anat Pick

Éric Rohmer’s Vegetal Ethics

Janet Harbord

Sustainability-Neurodiversity-Cinema


8.4 Precarity and Gladatorial Archetypes of Violence ATB0111

CHAIR: Jonathan Murray

Karen A. Ritzenhoff

Exploitation and Violence: Precarious Labor in Squid Game

Francesco Sticchi

Gladiatorial Games and the Exploitation of the General Intellect: On the Success of Squid Game (2021)

Lindsay Steenberg

Violence, Precarity, and the Warriors of Contemporary Television


8.5 Sustainability in Italian Film MB0312

CHAIR: Cristina Formenti

Marco Cucco and Federica d’Urso

Defining Models of Public Strategy to Implement Eco-sustainable Behaviors  in Audiovisual Production: The Italian Case Study

Paolo Carelli and Anna Sfardini

Italian Unscripted TV Goes Sustainable: Issues and Practices of Green Representation in Contemporary Television

Giulia Lavarone 

The Sustainability of Film-Induced Tourism: Remarks on Italian Case Studies 

Laura Cesaro 

Greening Film Festival: the Italian Circuit 

8.6 Roundtable: Cultures of Care: Changing Media Practice MB0302

Susan Berridge, Shweta Ghosh, Mette Hjort, Tanya Horeck and Leshu Torchin



Session 9: 11:45 - 13:15

9.1 Special Interest Group: Screen Industries SLB0006

CHAIR: Andrew Spicer

Jane Dawson

Beyond Carbon Reduction: Ethics, crew and natural history filmmaking futures

Charlotte Crofts

“Beautiful Possibility”: Green Filmmaking Pedagogy, Climate Content and Radical Optimism


9.2 Special Interest Group: Archives and Methods ATB0109

CHAIR: Will Kitchen

Matt Melia

Zappa (2020) and the Zappa ‘Vault’ – Film as Archive  

Llewella Chapman

The early Tomb Raider franchise: Videogames, preservation, ethics and the archive  

James Fenwick

Sustaining a load of rubbish or: How I learned to stop worrying and recycle archival ephemera in the Stanley Kubrick Archive


9.3 Masculinities ATB0107

CHAIR: Polina Zelmanova

Dan Martin

‘It’s about…just finding a way to survive’: Northern Masculinity, Seriality, and (Re) Imaginations of Working-Class Futures in Sky’s Brassic (2019 - )

Victoria Pistivsek

Caring White Men?: American Masculinity, Liberal Resistance, and Funny Sustainable Failures in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Mustafa Kocabinar

Challenging Stereotypes: The Representation of Henry V in David Michôd’s The King (2019)


9.4 Children, Families, Place ATB0111

CHAIR: Eve Benhamou

Jane Batkin

A Child in the Archives: Metaphor, Sustainability and the Question of Truth/Fiction within Live Action and Animated Screened Childhoods

Andrés Buesa

Moving to Stay Still: The Child, Mobility and Environmental Change

Diane Charlesworth

Unpacking discourses of “care” and “sustainability” in the UK children’s television ecology and television policy. A case study of Channel 5’s pre-school brand Milkshake’s series: The World According to Grandpa (2020 - present) and Go Green with the Grimwades (2020 – present).

Yue Su

Children, Risk Society and Liquid Kinship in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Cinema


9.5 Mind and Representation MB0312

CHAIR: Jolene Mairs Dyer

MaoHui Deng

How Useful are Dementia-Friendly Screenings?  

Dominic Lash

Privacy, consent, and expression in Ildikó Enyedi's On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről, 2017)

Chiara Quaranta

Echo and Narcissus: Listening to Film as Being-with

Hande Çayır 

‘You can see the cracks underneath the wallpaper’*: The ethical use of film within institutions and the possibility of (mis)representing people diagnosed with ‘mental illness’

Session 10: 14:15 - 15:45

10.1 Special Interest Group: Animation SLB0006

CHAIR: Sam Summers

Carla MacKinnon

Exchange of capital in short animated documentary production  

Dario Lolli

Capturing Water: Shinkai Makoto’s Weathering with You and the digital aesthetics of ‘atmospheric’ animation

Bella Honess Roe

Flee (2021), animated documentary and the ethics of empathy


10.2 Special Interest Group: Essay Film ATB0109

CHAIR: TBC

Jill Daniels

If Not Now: Where There is Power There is Resistance

Ming-Yu Lee

Essay Film-making in the Age of Anxiety: Letter-Film as a Way of Resistance and Regaining Utopia

Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker

Our Camera is Not a Projector: Co-creation as a Strategy of Resistance


10.3 Video Essays ATB0107

CHAIR: Malcolm Cook 

Richard Langley, Muriel Tinel-Temple, Dominic Topp and Ted Wilkes


10.4 Screening the Crisis ATB0111

CHAIR: Louis Bayman

Kayla Meyers

Infinite Possibilities: Imagining a Future through the Multiverse  

Virginia Luzón-Aguado

Not Playing Nero’s Fiddle: Finding Hope in Recent Ecocritical Films

Juan A. Tarancón

Break On Through to the Other Side: Roberto Minervini and the Challenge of Hope  

Gregory Frame

Fight the Future?: The Purge franchise as warning


10.5 Special Interest Group: 'Re-Framing Home Movies" Screening MB0312

CHAIR: Karianne Fiorini and Gianmarco Torri


Manuale di cinematografia per dilettanti – Vol. I/A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I. Federico Di Corato (Italy, 2022, 20 minutes)


Ciudad lineal/Linear City. Riccardo Bertoia (Italy, 2021, 31 minutes)


Gli anni/The years. Sara Fgaier (Italy/France, 2018, 20 minutes)

Screening: 10:00 - 15:45

Videographic Film Criticism 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