Annual Africana Film Festival
1e édition – Call for papers for its conference on the theme: New African cinemas: A festival of Sights, Imagination, and Sounds
Festival
du 26 au 29 Mars 2007
Horaires : 20:06
Horaires : 20:06
Cinéma/TV
Oxford & Middletown, Ohio – États-Unis
Français
The latest and greatest in Africana Filmmaking panel with African cineastes and international scholars : Sokhna Amar, Awam Amkpa, Debra Boyd, Zézé Gamboa, Gaston Kabore, Fanta Nacro, Jean-Marie Teno, Melissa Thackway, Frank Ukadike, Sada Niang, Ntongela Masilela
Call for papers for its conference on the theme: New African cinemas: A festival of Sights, Imagination, and Sounds
Over the last decade, filmmakers on the African continent have sought to dissociate themselves from the restrictive Manichean discourses of nationalist filmmaking. On a continent beset by debts, ravaged by disease, worn out by wars and plagued by genocide, some of these artists have been overwhelmed by the predicament facing their societies. In response, they have been creating stories ridden with silences, cast in new symbolism, and exploring new aesthetics. In an attempt to represent the creativity of peoples who have lost their citizenship to globalization, new film languages are emerging which shun obvious ideological positioning. Intensely subjective plots featuring the concern, fears and challenges of nameless and voiceless peoples are constructed. National identities defined within strict borders have all but disappeared, only to be replaced by the portrayal of lives riddled with challenges, beleaguered by gender motivated hurdles (excision, forced marriages) and poverty (the collapse of the school/health system, street children, various types of commodification of the body).
Panel/Paper Proposals are invited on this general theme. However, interested persons are free to propose panels/papers under any other theme or subject that would be appropriate.
Send inquiries and proposals-title and 250-word abstract (papers should be in English) by January 1, 2007 to:
Prof. Sante Matteo
Department of French and Italian
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-5932; Fax 513-529-1807
[email protected]
Prof. Stephen M. Norris
Director of Film Studies
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-2615; Fax 513 529-3224
[email protected]
NB: Festival participants must be pre-registered for the conference by January 15, 2007, for their names to appear in the program.
Call for papers for its conference on the theme: New African cinemas: A festival of Sights, Imagination, and Sounds
Over the last decade, filmmakers on the African continent have sought to dissociate themselves from the restrictive Manichean discourses of nationalist filmmaking. On a continent beset by debts, ravaged by disease, worn out by wars and plagued by genocide, some of these artists have been overwhelmed by the predicament facing their societies. In response, they have been creating stories ridden with silences, cast in new symbolism, and exploring new aesthetics. In an attempt to represent the creativity of peoples who have lost their citizenship to globalization, new film languages are emerging which shun obvious ideological positioning. Intensely subjective plots featuring the concern, fears and challenges of nameless and voiceless peoples are constructed. National identities defined within strict borders have all but disappeared, only to be replaced by the portrayal of lives riddled with challenges, beleaguered by gender motivated hurdles (excision, forced marriages) and poverty (the collapse of the school/health system, street children, various types of commodification of the body).
Panel/Paper Proposals are invited on this general theme. However, interested persons are free to propose panels/papers under any other theme or subject that would be appropriate.
Send inquiries and proposals-title and 250-word abstract (papers should be in English) by January 1, 2007 to:
Prof. Sante Matteo
Department of French and Italian
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-5932; Fax 513-529-1807
[email protected]
Prof. Stephen M. Norris
Director of Film Studies
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-2615; Fax 513 529-3224
[email protected]
NB: Festival participants must be pre-registered for the conference by January 15, 2007, for their names to appear in the program.
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