CFP: Interval Conference: Film (8/31/05; 11/5/05)

Call for papers and film/video submissions:

INTERVAL (1)
film can help us think thought
        
A CONFERENCE AT HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTRE BUFFALO AND THE DEPT OF MEDIA STUDY, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO.
November 5th 2005

“The cinematographic image must have a shock effect on thought, and force thought to think itself as much as thinking the whole.”
(Gilles Deleuze, ‘Cinema 2: The Time-Image’, pg 158)

This conference is intended as a confluence, bringing together filmmakers and theorists for a day of debate and exchange, based around Deleuze’s film philosophy, and his terms: the time-image and the irrational interval. Interval (1) will take place
in Buffalo in November 2005. Interval (2) will take place in London in February 2006.

Interval (1) seeks:
- written papers (15-20 mins in length)
- films/videos, as papers (max. 30 mins in length as presentations. Longer form works will be shown in a related screening.)

Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2005

>From those filmmakers who think by way of their cinema, we are looking for films that show the world upside down, using elements including disrupted narrative, non-linear form, the space between memory and experience. Films that feel like falling
over, rendering time both distended and retracted. Films that encourage the thinking of new thoughts. From writers and researchers, we are looking for papers that interrelate theory and practice, that examine sensory-motor interruption and the
non-teleological in film and video. Papers can be performative in nature, and cross platform.

- What is an irrational interval?
An irrational interval occurs when a cut between two separate moving images is not motivated by movement or action. For Deleuze, this type of interval can operate as a fissure or tear within the moving image text, through which the brain might pass
into the arena of the not-yet-thought. The time-image, and its chief tool the irrational interval, therefore necessarily cuts an audience adrift from the rational interval of Hollywood and of Eisenstein’s dialectical montage. Not the train careering
towards the screen, nor the shock of the edit and of seeing two separate depictions of time spliced together, but rather the “open Whole” of time in non habitual thought.

Since the inception of cinema, filmmakers have sought to make direct links with an individuated audience outside of the dictates of on-screen action, often thrusting the viewer in a disorienting way into the frame and the interval. What thoughts
occur in these gaps and what remains to harness from the interval? In the digital and non-linear age, what can we now say of the interstices between screen and mind, between film and world? What current forms of documentary, fiction and artists
film/video operate as Open Whole and opportunity for new thought?
 
Interval will be an appraisal of contemporary and future film/video as a currency for the development of our real. The Confluence will consist of a keynote address and keynote feature film, plus a number of film and written papers and related
durational or experimental screenings. All persons interested in crystalline forms of mind and moving image, whether makers, watchers or theorists, are welcome.

Please email 300 word abstracts for papers.
Please send 50-100 word synopses for film/video, together with a dvd or mini dv tape.

To:
Steven Eastwood (Professor) and Stefani Bardin (Graduate Student)
Department of Media Study
University at Buffalo
213 Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260-6020
USA

[ mailto:eastwood_at_buffalo.edu ]eastwood_at_buffalo.edu
[ mailto:srbardin_at_buffalo.edu ]srbardin_at_buffalo.edu

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