Call for Papers for Spring Seminar 2020: Revolution & Cinema Open

Spring Seminar 2020

Revolution & Cinema

7-8 May 2020

Call for Papers: 1 February 2020

Speakers and artists confirmed so far:

Ângela Ferreira

Ros Gray

Maria do Carmo Piçarra

Isabel Capeloa Gil

June Givanni*

Billy Woodberry

*to confirm

The fields of cinema and contemporary visual arts have, in recent years, been positioned from the perspective of recovering a historical memory of the colonized peoples. This recovery has been made either by the use of images or by the recovery of films produced by native filmmakers and artists (recovered from the archives), allowing the desocultation of an imaginary of their own, much built from the revolutions operated after the departure of western countries.

The academy itself has produced a series of books and texts that intend to document and think these archives, as well as these national cinemas and artistic objects, giving them a place of visibility, contrary to established canons of cinema and its western worldview. At the Spring Seminar, the book Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution, by Professor Ros Gray, will be launched. It traces a history of the INC (Mozambique Film Institute) and of the cinema made by militant Mozambican directors.

In this seminar, we intend to discuss this recovery, both from this silenced history of a national cinema and/or art of the colonized peoples, and from western artists and filmmakers working on this legacy from a post-colonial perspective.

Communications discussing the following themes will be accepted:

Postcolonial legacy in film and visual arts
Decolonization movements and their relationship with cinema and visual arts
The third cinema
Decolonization of cinema and art stories
Collective Forms of Film and Artistic Production
The role of political cinema
Activist art or the relationship between art and politics
Other ways of thinking about cinema as a revolutionary artistic form
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