Program

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 Chapel2nd 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