Arctic Cinemas and the
Documentary Ethos
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 27-29
August 2015
Arctic Cinemas
and the Documentary Ethos seeks to
counteract pervasive mythologies of the Arctic as a blank space or desolate end
of the world. Instead, the conference seeks to engage with how past, present,
and future power dynamics shape this circumpolar region, its indigenous
populations, and relationship to the rest of the world through documentary
filmmaking. The conference and proposed edited volume examines the Arctic as a
profoundly transnational and heterogeneous space through the rubric of Arctic
documentary (including film, video, television, digital media, and installation
art).
Arctic Cinemas
and the Documentary Ethos reflects the
state of the field by calling on the expertise by a range of established and
emerging film scholars from Europe, Canada, and the United States. The conference
seeks to juxtapose different forms of filmmaking not typically placed in
dialogue, and whose interrelations are overlooked. We are as interested in
presentations on films made in the eight Arctic countries (Canada,
Denmark/Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA), as we are in
documentaries made by non-Arctic countries, and in early cinema as much as
digital media. Through this practice, we seek to uncover a counter-history that
reveals the complexity of Arctic visual, cultural, ideological, and political
representation in a globalized and international world. Given its importance in
the history of cinematic representations of the Arctic, the conference will
focus on documentary cinema broadly conceived.
Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos will be held at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on August 27-29, 2015. Confirmed
participants include scholars of documentary, media, ethnographic, and
circumpolar indigenous cinemas who will address particularly significant
aspects of Arctic documentary cinema from the early 1900s to today. These
aspects include environmental documentaries, explorer films, indigenous media,
and political filmmaking, as well as production and distribution trends of the
Circumpolar North. Please submit a title, 500-word abstract, and biography by
April 20, 2015 to arcticdocumentary@gmail.com. Participants will be
notified in late April. Selected book-length chapter contributions (7,000-8,000
words) will be due to the editors December 1, 2015.
Lilya Kaganovsky
Associate Professor of
Slavic, Comparative Literature, and Media and Cinema StudiesDirector, Program in Comparative & World Literature
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott MacKenzie,
Dept of Film and Media
Studies,Cross-appointed to the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies,
Queen’s University,
Kingston, Canada
Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Media and Cinema Studies
Director of the European Union Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference Program Coordinator
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