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Events
¡Documentary Now!
A Conference on the Contemporary Contexts and Possibilities of the DocumentaryConference Location: Birkbeck College, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
Dates: Fri/Sat 15/16 January 2010
Documentary Now! is back. Now an annual fixture on the UK documentary scene, the conference brings together scholars, filmmakers, students, and interested members of the public to discuss current trends in documentary film, from the return of documentary as a theatrical box office phenomenon, to broadcast television, the web, and beyond. It explores questions of industry, audiences, aesthetics, political engagement, documentary's relationship to the mainstream media and other many other issues. What’s new in documentary? Where is documentary headed?
Keynote Speakers:
- Florian Thalhofer (creator of Korsakow System for Interactive Documentaries)
- Diego Mondaca with 'La Chirola' (Bolivia, 2008) (Festival awards: Amsterdam, Biarritz, Madrid)
Panels:
- Activism
- AVPhD
- Chinese Documentary
- City Spaces
- Crossing Borders
- Interactive Documentary
- Poetry of the Everyday
- Subjectivity, Ego, Experience
- Trauma
Registration is now open via our online registration form available at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDN1Q182WUF3MmIxeEVRb2NxRjRta1E6MA
There is no registration fee per se, but we do ask that you reserve your place for the conference, as seating is limited, and also that you let us know if you’ll be staying for lunch on Saturday (lunch is pre-pay £10).
For registration questions, contact Holly Giesman: holly.giesman@roehampton.ac.uk
For those coming from outside London, accommodations at the Tavistock Hotel (around the corner from Birkbeck) are £65 per night for single and £89 per night for double. www.imperialhotels.co.uk/tavistock1_hotel.aspx
Organisers:
Michael Chanan (m.chanan@roehampton.ac.uk)Alisa Lebow (Alisa.Lebow@brunel.ac.uk)
Conference schedule
Full schedule with abstracts and bibliographies (PDF)