Call for papers closed now.
Please, limit your presentation to 15 minutes. A 30 minute Q&A will follow each panel.
Final programme of the Small Cinemas Conference 2017
Keynote speakers: Margarita Ledo and Ib Bondebjerg. More info here.
FINAL PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY. September 20th, 2017.
Bilbao. Aulas de la Experiencia
9:00 Conference opening
(main room, English, Basque and Spanish)
with representatives of the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising,
the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication and the Rectorate of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.
9:30 keynote 1 (main room, English)
MARGARITA LEDO. Prof. University of Santiago de Compostela, USC
Rethinking diversity: cinema in non-hegemonic languages as a symptom
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Panel 1A (room1, Spanish)
Representaciones de lo indígena en el cine latinoamericano reciente: trayectorias globales, entre el decolonialismo y la exotización
Chair: Marian G. Abrisketa
Sebastián González Itier. The University of Edinburgh
Ruralidad, alegorías y autorepresentación en El viento sabe que vuelvo a casa (José Luis Torres Leiva, 2016) y El Cristo Ciego (Christopher Murray, 2016).
Milton Fernando Gonzalez-Rodriguez. Universidad de Islandia
Caras y sonidos de la indigenidad cinemática: Casos recientes en el cine boliviano, mexicano y peruano.
María Paz Peirano. Universidad de Chile
Festivales, rupturas y travesías: Conflicto mapuche y la representación de lo indígena en el cine chileno reciente.
11:30 Panel 1B (main room, English)
New Glocal Cinemas
Chair: Bennet Schaber
Noah Zweig. Universidad de las Américas (Ecuador)
New Ecuadorian Cinema: A Small, Glocal and Plurinational Sector.
Katy Stewart. University of Sheffield
Borders and Motion in Contemporary West African Cinema: Timbuktu and Medan Vi Lever.
Adrián Fuentes-Luque. Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla)
Nollywood: (g)local cinema from Africa to the world.
Zebunnisa Hamid. SOAS, University of London
New Pakistani Cinema; Emergence of a Small Cinema and Opposing Forces.
11:30 Panel 1C (room 2, English)
Contemporary Small Cinemas
Chair: Lenuta Giukin
Piotr Wajda. University of Gdansk
Nordic chainsaw massacre. Between local and glocal in modern Scandinavian horror films.
Diana Popa. University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
The Aesthetics and Politics of Aferim!
Anna Taszycka. Krakowska Akademia im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego
Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida as a reflection of the Polish School.
Sonika Jain. Independent Researcher
Queen of Katwe: a Glocalized Film that Celebrates Cultural Diversity and Simultaneously Problematizes the Concept of Small Cinema.
13:00 LUNCH
14:30 Panel 2A (room 1, Spanish)
Translantion and Linguistic Diversity
Chair: Irene De Higes
Irene De Higes. Universitat Jaume I (Castelló de la Plana)
La diversidad lingüística como representación de las minorías étnicas.
Antonio J Martínez. Universidad de Salamanca
La divergencia sexual y su representación racial a través de la traducción.
María Perez L. de Heredia. Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU
La divergencia interseccional en la traducción y adaptación de productos audiovisuales multiculturales.
Soliña Barreiro. ESUPT-UPF // UOC
La subtitulación cinematográfica en catalán en VOD: legislación y práctica.
14:30 Panel 2B (main room, English)
National Identities
Chair: Diana Popa
Lenuta Giukin. SUNY Oswego
Beyond Liminality: New Romanian Cinema – in Search for the Future.
Renata Šukaitytė. Vilnius University
The Birth of the Nation and the Politics of Dissensus in Jonas Mekas’ documentary Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR.
Katarína Mišíková. University of Performing Arts, Bratislava
Social Martyrs in Contemporary Slovak Cinema.
Mariana Liz. ICS-ULisboa
After the Crisis: Nationhood in 21st Century Portuguese Cinema.
16:00 Panel 3A (room 1, English)
Cinema of First Nations
Chair: Davinia Thornley
Davinia Thornley. University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Critiquing Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Small Cinema.
Jennifer L. Gauthier. Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
‘Glocalising’ Genre: Indigenous Filmmakers Reinvent the Sci Fi Film.
Anita Wen-Shin Chang. University of California at Santa Cruz
New Documentary Visibilities: The Tongues of Heaven/Root Tongue Transmedia Digital Art Platform.
Chris Lalonde. SUNY Oswego
Refusing the Art of Forgetfulness: Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls.
16:00 Panel 3B (main room, English)
Gender I
Chair: Katixa Agirre
Ana Maria Cristea. Universidad de Oviedo.
Queering Suburbia. Haptic Soundscapes and Remote Intimacies in the Cinema of Québec.
Nicola Tomlinson. The University of Manchester, UK
Rewriting the script: Women filmmakers in Andalusian cinema.
Susan Liddy. Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
The Gender Journey and the Irish Film Board: From Gender Neutral to the Six Point Plan and Beyond.
16:00 Panel 3C (room 2, English+Spanish)
Peripheries
Chair: Katarína Mišíková
Agnieszka Kiejziewicz. The Jagiellonian University
Japanese experimental cinema in the modern era. Between the national identity and the polemics with the cultural norms.
Imola Bülgözdi. University of Debrecen, Hungary
Individual Autonomy and the Female Voice on Screen in School of Senses.
Jamie Steele. Bath Spa University/University of Bristol
Representing Molenbeek: A transnational approach to Black (Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah, 2015) and Belgian-Moroccan filmmaking.
Thuanny Silva. Universidade da Beira Interior
Django Kid: conceptos cinematográficos en forma de película.
18:00 keynote 2 (main room, English)
IB BONDEBJERG. Prof. Emeritus, University of Copenhagen
Globalisation, Multicultural Reality and the Creative Diversity of Scandinavian Cinema
20:00 OPENING DINNER
THURSDAY. September 21st, 2017.
Bilbao. Aulas de la Experiencia
9:30 Panel 4A (room 1, English+Spanish)
Identity
Chair: ______
Deepthy Krishna. University of Hyderabad (India)
Representation of ‘Other’: Muslims in Hyderabadi Movies.
Turcus Claudiu. Babes-Bolyai University
A morraly correct gaze. Anticommunist representations in Romanian cinema of the 90s.
Costas Constandinides. University of Nicosia
Towards a New Cypriot Cinema or a Re-lensing of the “Local”: From the Cinema of the Cyprus Problem to the Unmaking of the “Sacred” Family Institution.
Anna Pasqualina Forgione. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Nápoles – Liceo Linguistico Statale “N. Jommelli, Aversa
Ciprí y Maresco. Cine siciliano entre diversidad e identidad.
Loreta Gandolfi. University of Cambridge
Picturing A-National Cinema: The Cinema of Tizza Covi and Reiner Frimmerl – A Case Study.
9:30 Panel 4B (main room, English)
Minority Languages
Chair: Miren Manías-Muñoz
Purna Choudituri. English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad, India)
Contemporary Basque Cinema: Going Glocal.
Maitane Junguitu. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Basque Language in the Creative and Production Process of Basque Animation.
Marta Pérez Pereiro. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Policies and collaborative practices for subtitling in Galician.
Ira Robert Ortigosa. Birmingham University
Audio-visual translation in minority language cinema.
9:30 Panel 4C (room2, Spanish)
Gender II
Chair: Iratxe Fresneda
Fang Qi (Spanish). Universitat de Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Representación de Género en el cine chino – La actuación de la estrella transnacional Gong Li y el poder de su mirada.
Arantza Santesteban. Universidad Nacional Educación a Distancia, UNED
La construcción de la masculinidad en Ama Lur.
Anderson de Souza Alves. Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)
Autoría en la película pornográfica de Bruce Labruce y Erika Lust.
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Panel 5A (room 1, English)
Films from the Maghreb
Chair: ______
Bennet Schaber. SUNY Oswego
After the Revolution, Before: Leyla Bouzid’s A peine j’ouvre les yeux.
Alex De Sacia. SUNY Oswego
Monologue and Movement.
Jackie McTigue. SUNY Oswego
Abderrahmane Sissako en procès.
Ethan Salerius. SUNY Oswego.
A Kino-Politics of Displacement.
11:30 Panel 5B (Main room, English)
Audience and Reception
Chair: Edorta Arana
Philippe Meers. University of Antwerp/Ghent University
Small cinema / small audience? Results from a multimethod study on young audiences in Flanders (Belgium).
Karolina Kosinska. Institute of Art of Polish Academy of Sciences
Changing in translation – from Polish 80’s paraphernalia to international genre-bending: The Lure by Agnieszka Smoczyńska.
Orsolya Karacsony. University of Debrecen
The Pleasure of Uncomfortable Reception – Bodies Represented in Kills on Wheels and Strangled.
Emilia Pérez / Simona Klimkova. University in Nitra
Small Cinemas in a Big World: The Role of Translation in the Audiovisual Industry. Constantine the Philosopher
11:30 Panel 5C (Room 2, Spanish)
Textual analysis
Chair: Andoni Iturbe
Alba Giménez. University of South Wales
Dead Slow Ahead – Poéticas de la deslocalización.
Tania López. Universidad de Burgos.
Pequeños retos del cine checoslovaco que triunfaron en los 60: Obchod na korze (La tienda en la calle mayor) y Ostře sledované vlaky (Trenes rigurosamente vigilados)
David Aguilera Ferragut. Universidad de Barcelona
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: el gesto sustractivo en el cine fantástico.
Jorge Oter. Escuela Superior Politécnica TecnoCampus (ESUPT)
Figuras en imagen, figuras e imagen: estrategias para la representación del individuo en Portret (Sergei Loznitsa, 2002).
13:00 LUNCH
14:30 Panel 6A (room 1, English)
Case Studies
Chair: Andrea Virginas
Edna Lim. National University of Singapore
The significance of Ilo Ilo.
Zsolt Giöry. University of Debrecen
Constructing the Male Gangster in a Small Cinema: A Case Study from Hungary.
Madalina Pojoga. Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, România
Screening Female Characters in Socialist and 90’s Romanian cinema.
Renata Stonyte. Vilnius University
Searching for Ukrainian identity: Vitaly Mansky’s documentary “Close relations” (2016).
14:30 Panel 6B (Main room, English)
Multilingualism
Chair: María Pérez L. de Heredia
Jana Dudkova. Institute of Theatre and Film Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Languages of Minorities in Post-Socialist Slovak Cinema.
Martin Silke. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Filmic migration and wanderings sounds: The Relation between accented and dialect cinema.
Maral Mohsenin. University of Amsterdam/University of Lausanne/Cinémathèque suisse
Small Nation, Big Archives: the Transnational Film Collections of Cinémathèque suisse.
Antonia Mele. Independent Researcher.
Language, migration and translation in Emanuele Crialese’s cinema.
14:30 Panel 6C (Room 2, English)
Film Festivals
Chair: Aida Vallejo
María Luna. Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona/ Tecnocampus UPF
From Caliwood to Cannes: Contravía Films and the new geography of Colombian Cinemas.
Varga Balazs. ELTE University Budapest, Film Studies Department
Performing Glocality: International Film Festivals, Auteurs and Small Cinemas – The Case of Kornél Mundruczó.
Sarah Smyth. University of St Andrews
Cinephilia and Topophilia at Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival.
16:00 Panel 7A (Room 1, Basque)
Basque Cinema
Chair: Amaia Nerekan
Marijo Deogracias. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Hizkuntza ez da oztopo ikus-entzunezkoen kontsumoa partekatzeko.
Patxi Azpillaga/Bea Zabalondo. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Euskara sustatzeko politikak Euskal Herriko zinematografia sisteman.
Ainhoa Fernández de Arroyabe. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Kimuak, ¿cine en minúsculas?.
Josu Martinez. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Euskal zinema Iparrraldean: ekosistema sortu, antolatu eta garatzeko tenorea.
16:00 Panel 7B (Main room, English+Spanish)
Challenges for Small Cinemas
Chair: Miren Manías
Constantin Parvulescu. Universidad de Navarra
Wounded cultures, burdened hopes: The historical commentary of Cristian Mungiu’s work.
György Kalmár. University of Debrecen, Hungary
Back to the Local: Retreating Men in Contemporary Eastern-European Cinema.
Dilys Jones. University of Manchester, England
From heartlands to discordant landscapes: a way of theorizing identities in small cinema.
Jose Manuel Moreno. Universidad de Sevilla
Reconocer para integrar: dificultades y retos para la construcción de un espacio audiovisual centroamericano.
16:00 Panel 7C (Room 2, English+Spanish)
Industry and Distribution
Chair: Aida Vallejo
Audrius Dabrovolskas. Vilnius University
The necessity of the Digital Single market strategy: the case of the biggest video-on-demand platforms in the Baltic States.
Jan Hanzlík. University of Economics in Prague
Global Film Culture, Local Programming: Czech Theatrical Distribution in the Era of Digitization and Eventization.
Andrea Virginás. Sapientia The Hungarian University of Transylvania, Media Department
Domestic and/or international success in Eastern European small national cinemas.
Jerónimo Rivera. Universidad de La Sabana.
Análisis comparativo de la industria cinematográfica de los países más relevantes del cine hispanoamericano.
18:30-20:30 FILM PROJECTION
Bidebarrieta Library (Bilbao, Old town). VO in Basque with English subtitles.
The Search for Emak Bakia (dir. Oskar Alegría)
Screening followed up by Q&A with the director.
FRIDAY. September 22nd, 2017.
San Sebastián. Sala Keler
11:30 ROUND TABLE (English)
On Small Cinemas, Film Festivals and Transnational Circulation
with Dina Iordanova, Margarita Ledo and Ib Bondebjerg, moderated by Aida Vallejo
(Co-organized in collaboration with ikerFESTS research project: Film and Audiovisual Festivals in the Basque Country).
Funded by University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU): EHUA16/31).