CALL FOR PROPOSALS
¡Documentary Now! Dates: Wednesday-Thursday 19-20 June 2013
Conference Location: UCL, Central London
¡Documentary Now! is back and is continuing its collaboration with Open City Docs Fest. The theme for this year’s conference is “Malleability”: Whether digital, animated, acted or re-enacted, fragmented, uploaded, mashed up, rubbed-up against fiction, or otherwise manipulated, documentary is undergoing momentous changes: some deepen or emphasize already developed techniques or approaches, and others fundamentally challenge them. Documentary has morphed into the galleries and online, has fragmented non-linearly, and been tampered with interactively. This year’s conference especially invites papers and presentations that consider ways in which the documentary form is being continuously recast. As always, all good proposals on any topic related to the documentary, broadly conceived, will be considered.
If you would like to give a 20 minute paper/presentation at the conference OR send proposals for themed panels of 3-4 people, please send proposals (including 250-300 word abstracts of papers) to: docnowconference@gmail.com
The deadline for proposals is Friday, 1 February 2013
The deadline for proposals is Friday, 1 February 2013
There is no fee for attendance but registration is required.
¡Documentary Now! has been bringing together scholars, filmmakers, students, and interested members of the public since 2007 to discuss current trends in documentary film, from the return of documentary as a theatrical box office phenomenon, to broadcast television, the web, and beyond. It explores questions of industry, audience, aesthetics, political engagement, documentary and the mainstream media, and much more. What’s new in documentary? Where is documentary headed? This year’s conference organiser is Alisa Lebow of Brunel University.
¡Documentary Now! is made possible with support of Brunel University, UCL, Open City Docs Fest & Lincoln University.
