Annual Conference of the European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF)
European Cinema:
Experiment, Mainstream and Praxis
Schedule
This schedule is subject to changes in case of unforeseen events. Unless noted otherwise, all activities will take place at Mountainview, Appalachian Collegiate Center, on Binghamton University’s Campus. Please see maps of Binghamton and the campus on the ECRF website.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
4:00–8:00 pm — Arrival & Registration, Mountainview, Appalachian Collegiate Center, Lobby, Binghamton University
Brownbag Dinner
5:00 pm Screening – Ben Annemin Kiziyim—Ich bin die Tochter meiner Mutter (I am my Mother’s Daughter, 1996), dir.: Seyhan Derin, filmmaker, Berlin (Germany).
Friday, July 10, 2009
9:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks, Professor Donald Nieman, Dean of Harpur College, Binghamton University
Breakfast
10:00 –12:00 Round Table 1 Moderator: Graeme Harper, Bangor University (UK)
Seyhan Derin, filmmaker (Berlin, Germany): “Film funding in Germany Today”
Jonathan Ervine, Bangor University (UK): “Adopted and enforced homelands in the films of Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche”
Jochen Hick, filmmaker (Hamburg & Berlin, Germany), Arthouse filmmaking
Donald J. Loewen, Binghamton University: “Whose Rubel is it Anyway? Vexing Questions for Today’s Russian Filmmakers”
12:00–12:30 Brownbag lunch
12:30-1:30 Sabine Hake, University of Texas, Austin (USA)
"Art/Exploitation: Film and Fascism in Italian Films of the 1970s"
1:30–3:30 Panel 1 Moderator: Owen Evans, Swansea University
David Chirico, Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY: “In a Month of 13 Films: A Fassbinder Diary”
Shekhar Deshpande, Arcadia University (USA): “Anthology of Identity: Emerging Imaginary in European Cinema”
Coffee Break
3:45-5:45 Panel 2 Moderator: John Davidson, Ohio State University
Kristin Hole, State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA): “Madness and Masculinity in the Films of Werner Herzog, 1972-1987”
Brad Prager, University of Missouri, Columbia (USA): “Herzog
and His Apes”
Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico (USA): “Faux Futurisms and Fey Science in Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (1965), Bertrand Tavernier’s La mort en direct (1980), Lars von Trier’s Epidemic (1987), and Werner Herzog’s The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)”
Dinner -- 7:30 Dinner Garden Party at Mary Webster’s 12 Edwards Street, Binghamton, NY (607-722-1483).
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Breakfast 8:00-8:45
9:00–10:15 Screening
Milk in the Land, (2007), directed by Ariana Gerstein (Binghamton University) & Monteith McCollum, Independent Filmmaker.
10:30-12:00 Round Table 2 (back at Appalachian) Moderator: Brian Wall, Binghamton University
Graeme Harper, Bangor University (UK): "Why Europe? Foundations,
Creativity and the Filmic Germanus”
Maryline Monthieux, film editor (Paris, France), on: editing for
arthouse and mainstream cinema
Isabelle Vanderschelden, Manchester Metropolitan University: "The
'beautiful people' of Christophe Honoré: New Wave legacy and new
directions in French Arthouse cinema."
12:00-2:00 Brownbag lunch with screening
Les rivieres pourpres (Crimson Rivers, 2000); dir.: Mathieu Kassovitz; editor: Maryline Monthieux
2:00-3:45 Panel 3 Moderator: Harald Zils, Binghamton University
Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey, Binghamton University: “Editing the Cult of the Cold: M. Monthieux's Les rivieres pourpres (Crimson Rivers, 2000)”
Anne Jahn, Pennsylvania State University (USA): “Challenging Binaries of German National Identity in Seyhan Derin and Suelbiye Guenar’s Films”
Lenuta Giukin, State University of New York, Oswego (USA): "Nelly Kaplan or what Surrealism could have been?"
2:00 – 3:45 Panel 4 Moderator: Kathleen McKenna, Broome CC
Carmen Herrero, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK): “Edgy art cinema: generic negotiations in Spanish cinema (the rural thriller)”
Joyce Jesionowski, Binghamton University: "Speaking 'Bach': Strategies of alienation and intimacy in Straub-Huillet's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach."
Claudia Pummer, University of Iowa (USA): “Borderlines: Straub-Huillet, French Film Culture, and the Young German Film”
Coffee Break
4:00–6:00 Panel 5 Moderator: David Kleinberg, Binghamton University
Michael Cowan, McGill University (CA): “Absolute Advertising: Walter Ruttmann and the Weimar Advertising Film”
Brian Wall, Binghamton University: “ 'Expressionism is a gamble': Modernity, Aesthetics and Play in Fritz Lang's Dr.Mabuse, der Spieler”
Allyson Fiddler, Lancaster University (UK), “Projecting Politics: Austrian Protest Film”
6:30-8:00 Dinner Anderson Center Reception Room, Binghamton University campus
8:00 Screenings -- Lecture Hall 6
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Works by Vincent Grenier, filmmaker, Binghamton University: SURFACE TENSION #2 (1995--4 min., 16 mm.); MEND (1979--3 min.); Interieur Interiors (15 min., 16 mm); TABULA RASA 1993–2004 (7.5 min.); HERE (2002--7 min.); ARMOIRE (2007, 3 min.); Les Chaises (2008, 9 min.).
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Der gute Amerikaner (2009, The Good American), Jochen Hick, filmmaker, Hamburg/Berlin.
Sunday, July 12
9:30-10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 12:00 Panel 6 Moderator: Dan Huizinga, Binghamton University
Janina Falkowska, University of Western Ontario, London (CA), “The Myth of the Father Figure, National Identiy and Nostalgia in the Films of Aleksandr Sokurov, Michael Haneke, and Andrzej Wajda”
Nancy Nenno, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC (USA), “Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas’s Niemandsland (1931)”
Owen Evans, Swansea University, "Making/Breaking New Waves"
12:00 – 2:00 Round Table 3 / Brownbag Lunch Moderator: Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College
Vincent Grenier, filmmaker, Binghamton University: "On my Short Films
and Videos, Cultural Artifacts, Perception and Color"
John Davidson, Ohio State University, Columbus (USA): "The Short Film Form"
Barbara Mennel, University of Florida (Gainesville, USA): “Migrating
into the New Europe: Minority Cinema as European Heritage Cinema”
Suelbiye Guenar, filmmaker (Berlin, Germany): "Film and Identity."
2:00-2:15 Adieu! Announcements for next year’s conference in Exeter, UK.