15 July 2006

1st International Conference on Film and Memorialisation (1)



Call for Abstracts
Due: August 2nd, 2006
Announcements: August 4th, 2006
Conference dates: October 14th-15th, 2006
Key words: Film, video, moving image, memorial, identity, place and space, architecture, loss, past, cinema,
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The 1st International Conference on Film and Memorialisation will be staged at the University of Applied Sciences at Schwabisch Hall, Germany. 300 word abstracts are due August 2nd with notification delivered via email on August 4th. Final papers are due in September with conference proceedings delivered in October. Screenings of short films, experimental film and video art relating to conference themes will also be displayed as an alternative to formal papers.

This conference is in association with the Digital Cinema Research Group based in the School of Creative Media at RMIT University, Melbourne and is open to all thinkers including artists, curators, writers, designers, philosophers, film makers, architects, historians, and poets.

Abstracts should be emailed as word doc to: shaun.wilson@rmit.edu.au. Please type 'abstract_conference_yourname' in the subject title.

All abstracts and papers are double blind refereed.