Wednesday, September 21
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Campus Center 3rd Floor
UMass Hotel Lobby – Check in
Pick up Registration Materials
(also available on Thursday morning in the Old Chapel)
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Campus Center 10th floor (Amherst Room)
Cocktail Reception (for those who are already around!)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
Integrative Learning Center S240
A special premiere screening of select works from Once Upon a Screen Vol. 2, presented by Evelyn Kreutzer, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, & Ariel Avissar, Tel Aviv University
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SCREENINGS IN A LOOP
Old Chapel 1st Floor
Thursday, Sept. 22
1:00PM — 6:00PM
Screening of Once Upon a Screen Vol. 2
Friday, Sept. 23
1:00PM —5:00PM
Screening of the video-essays:
-Catherine Portuges, UMass Amherst, “The World of Márta Mészáros : a Video Essay for The Criterion Collection”
-Melanie E.S. Kohnen, Lewis & Clark College, “It’s Not ‘Girl Gets Boy,’ It’s ‘Girl Gets Book’: Greta Gerwig’s Little Women”
-Alan O’Leary, Aarhus University, Denmark, “Men Shouting – A History in 7 Episodes”
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Thursday, September 22
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
9:00am – 10:00am
Land Acknowledgment
Welcome Address and Opening Remarks by:
Tricia Serio, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Barbara Krauthamer, Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Barbara Zecchi, Director Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies
10:00am – 11:15am
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Panel 1: ??Organizing Chaos: Videographic Works in Process
Chair: Christian Keathley, Middlebury College
1.1 Christian Keathley, Middlebury College, “A Fragmentary Approach to Long Form Videographic Work”
1.2 Katie Bird, The University of Texas at El Paso, “Editing Editors Editing Gunsmoke”
1.3 Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, University of Illinois, “What if they had said yes? Counterfactual & videographic explorations of Jacques Demy’s Parking (1985)”
1.4 Ariel Avissar, Tel Aviv University, “A Scrapbook of My Failures: Television, Complexity, and an Inability to Connect the Dots”
11:30am – 12:45 pm
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Panel 2: Affect, Longing, Dreams
Chair: Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, University of Illinois
2.1 Emily Su Bin Ko, Columbia University, “Echos of dreams”
2.2 Eva Álvarez Vázquez, UMass Amherst, “Pushing the Boundaries. Galician Landscape as a Global Character”
2.3 Celia Sainz, , UMass Amherst, “Dark will Come: a Videographic Essay on O que arde”
2.4 Daniel Pope, UMass Amherst, “Real Real Gone”
12:45pm – 1:45pm
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Lunch break
1:45pm – 3:00pm
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Panel 3: Affect, Sound, Emotions
Chair: Cormac Donnelly, University of Glasgow
3.1 Sureshkumar P. Sekar, Royal College of Music, “ALiveness”
3.2 Evelyn Kreutzer , Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, “Footsteps: An Exploration in Sound”
3.3 Steven Sehman & Niall Ó Murchú , Western Washington University,“The Ó Riada Effect: Scoring Irish History”
3.4 Jeffrey Middents, American University, “Mi sueño es representar la belleza de la mujer de mi estado”
3:00pm – 4:15pm
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Panel 4: Sound, Post-Sound, Deformativity
Chair: John Gibbs, University of Reading
4.1 J.D. Swerzenski, UMass Amherst, “The Sound of Lovers Rock”
4.2 Cormac Donnelly, University of Glasgow, “Sound Stack: on Sonic Chronicle, Post Sound”
4.3. Mathias Bonde Korsgaard, Aarhus University, “Music Video Space”
4.4. Jaap Kooijman, University of Amsterdam, “No One Can Stop Me When I Taste the Feeling: Dealing with Pleasure in Videographic Criticism”
4:15pm – 4:45pm
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Coffee Break
4:45pm – 5:45pm
Old Chapel – 2nd Floor
Panel 5: Spaces, Traces, Non-Places
Chair: Evelyn Kreutzer, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
5.1 John Gibbs , University of Reading, “Creative Connections: Centring on Candyman”
5.2 Hannah Shikle, University of South Carolina, “A Desert Journey in Nine Parts”
5.3. Wickham Flannagan, Bilkent University, “Shadow Men: Two Reflections on Repulsion and Last Night in Soho”
6:00pm -7:00pm
Old Chapel –2nd Floor
Keynote
Jason Mittell, Middlebury College, ??“What Is A Videographic Book?”
Introduction by Daniel Pope, UMass Amherst
7:30pm – 8:00pm
Student Union Ballroom
Pizzas
8:00pm -9:30pm
Live Performance – Keynote
Johannes Binotto: “Accenting the Accidental: Video Essay Research as Experimental Practice”
Introduction by Barry Spence, UMass Amherst
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Friday, September 23
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
9:00am-10:00am
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Panel 6: Theory: The Podcast, the YouTube Video, and the Short Scholarly Video
Chair: Barry Spence, UMass Amherst
6.1. Will DiGravio, The Video Essay Podcast, “Understanding (and Podcasting) the Labor and Practices of Video Essaying”
6.2. Clare O’Gara, University of Wisconsin Madison, “Camera-Penned, User-Generated: Searching for Self in YouTube Video Essays”
6.3 Patrick Keating, Trinity University, “Two Minutes or Less: The Short Scholarly Video”
10:15am – 11:30am
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Panel 7: Gendered Deformations and Transformations
Chair: Celia Sainz, University of Massachusetts Amherst
7.1. Chelsea McCracken, SUNY Oneonta, “Videographic Deformation Techniques and Hollywood’s Gender Inequities”
7.2. Barbara Zecchi , University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Tu mi fai girar: Turning Dolls”
7.3. Maria Hofmann , University of Minnesota, “Who is the Monster Now”
7.4. Samantha Close, DePaul University, “That Girl Became Root”
11:45pm – 12:45pm
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Panel 8: Women Filmmakers
Chair: Chelsea McCracken, SUNY Oneonta
8.1 Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY SPS, “Marriage Elaine-May Style”
8.2 Niall Ó Murchú, Western Washington University, “Blending Palestine I: Annemarie Jacir’s Duty to Nazareth”
8.3 Colleen Laird, The University of British Columbia, “Eye-Camera-Ninagawa”
12:45am – 1:45pm
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Lunch Break
1:45pm -3:15 pm
Old Chapel –2nd Floor
Panel 9: Dialogisms, Parallelisms, Echoes
Chair: Niall Ó Murchú, Western Washington University
9.1 Alexander Greenhough, , Stanford University, “Jane Eyre”
9.2 Beatriz Gómez Vega, UMass Amherst, “Parallel Memories: The Ghost of the Past in Almodovar’s cinema”
9.3 Tara Monastesse, Mount Holyoke College, “It Follows and Young Adulthood”
9.4 Anne Ciecko, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “’Kuku’ and ‘Petrykivka’”
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Old Chapel –2nd Floor
Panel 10: Racks, Voids, Stars: Editing and Cinematic Techniques
Chair: Kevin Anderson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
10.1 Sean O’Sullivan, The Ohio State University, “Rack”
10.2 Kevin L. Ferguson, Queens College, CUNY, “Void”
10.3 Veronika Hanáková & Ji?í Anger:, Charles University in Prague, “The Curse of the Gimmick: Star Wipe“
4:30pm – 5:00pm
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Coffee break
5:00-6:30
Old Chapel 2nd Floor
Keynotes:
Musicality/Material Thinking: Catherine Grant and Chloé Galibert-Laîné in conversation
Catherine Grant, Aarhus University, «The Musicality of Videographic Criticism»
Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Lucerne School of Art and Design, «GeoMarkr, Critical Variations»
Introduction by Emily Su Bin Ko, Columbia University
7:30
Dinner
Campus Center 11th Floor