The Schedule at a Glance

/Wednesday, September 6

8.30-18.45
Registration open
9.15 – 11.00
SESSION A
Break
11.15-13.00
SESSION B
Lunch
14.45 – 15.15
Institutional Greetings
15.15 – 16.45
KEYNOTE 1 / SCREENING
Break
17.00 – 18.45
SESSION C
19.15 -20.15
WELCOME RECEPTION
&
LIMINA AWARDS
20.30 – 22.30
SCREENINGS

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 Wednesday, September 6
Session A/9.15-11.00
A1 – Room 2
Ethnographies
Chair: Joshua Malitsky,
Indiana University
Yu Chang-Min, National
Taiwan University, “Double
Demonstration: Liu Pi-Chia,
TV Ethnographies, and
US-sponsored Educational
Documentaries”
Jennifer Wild, University
of Southern California,
“The Visual Ecology of
Avant-Garde Inquiry: The
Cinematographic Enquête”
Marcy Goldberg, University
of Zurich, “Searching
for Winnetou: Humour,
Counter-Ethnography and
Narrative Sovereignty”
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A2 – Room 3 Geography, and A4 – Room 5 A5 – Room 7 A6 – Room 8
An Opaque Transparency: Documentary Ecosystems Film and Media Heritage Editing: From Technique to Documentary Funding and
Debunking the Rethorics of in East Asia* I: Documenting Film Research Methodology* Production Cultures
Virtual Reality Documentary Chair: Kiki Tianqi Yu, Queen Preservation, Reframing Chair: Max Schleser, Chair: Bella Honess Roe,
Chair: Pietro Conte, Mary University of London Documentary Film History Swinburne University of University of Surrey
University of Milan (Workshop) Technology
Kiki Tianqi Yu, Queen Chair: Simone Venturini, Inge Sørensen, University of
Federica Cavaletti, Mary University of London, University of Udine Shira Mazuz, The Glasgow, and Nick Higgins,
University of Milan, “‘No “‘Effortless’ Film Practice: Hebrew University of University of West Scotland,
Need to Fool Me’: Wish You Daoist Approach to Presenters: Jerusalem, “Montage “Documentary Funding and
Were Here Beyond Place Sustainable Filmmaking and the Materiality Funders in the UK and North
Illusion and Transparency” through Wuwei” Elena Beltrami, Cineteca of Documentation in America”
del Friuli Cameraperson”
Rosa Cinelli, University of Shan Tong, Communication Amir Bashti Monfared,
Milan, “Telling the ‘Truth’ in University of China, Patrizia Cacciani, Armand Yervant Tufenkian, Norwegian University of
Virtual Reality: The Case of “Practice-based Archivio storico UC San Diego, “Editing as Science and Technology and
Diagnosia” Documentary Education in Istituto Luce - Cinecittà Ecotone Formation” Volda University College,
PRC: Alternative Training “Norway’s Film Funds and
Pietro Conte, University of Venues Outside of The Serena Bellotti, University David Borish, Torngat the Reinforcement of Social
Milan, “Faking the Truth, State-run Schools” of Udine Secretariat, “Moving Impact Documentaries”
Staging the Real: The Great Images, Moving Methods:
Hoax Between Cinema and Zimu Zhang, The Education Advancing Documentary Shilpi Gulati, Tata Institute
VR” University of Hong Film for Qualitative of Social Sciences, “Indian
Kong, “Liquid Geography Research” (online) Documentary in Neoliberal
Sponsored by XX MAGIS and Island-Thinking: Systems of Social Change”
Documentaries Made
from and with Hong Kong Deenaz Raisinghani,
A3 – Room 4 Archipelago” (online) Savitribai Phule Pune
Being Water: University, “Digitalisation
Transcorporeality, Discussant: Luke Robinson, and Documentary in India:
‘Effortless’ Sustainable University of Sussex Contemporary Insights from
Filmmaking, Liquid 21 the Field”
A7 – Room 15
Female Voices of
Anat Tzom Ayalon, The
Tisch School of Film Session B/
Resistance: Docusoap,
Essay Film, Videographic
and Television Tel-Aviv
University, “Faceless
11.15-13.00
Confession Voices of Women-Trauma
B1 – Room 2 Sana Akram, York B3 – Room 4
Chair: Yael Levy, The and Ethics in Recent
Animated Documentary University, “Situating the Disability and the Mind
Tisch School of Film Documentaries”
Chair: Ohad Landesman, Performative Arts of Qissah Chair: Anu Koivunen,
and Television Tel-Aviv
Tel Aviv University and Dastan as Immersive University of Turku
University
Docufiction within the
A8 – Room Limen
Renée Pastel, Boston Emergent Documentary Katherine Erskine,
Anat Zanger, The Documentaries and Radical
College, “Mismatched Voices: Ecologies in the 21st Northwestern University,
Tisch School of Film Media Ecologies in the XXI
Documentary Ventriloquism in Century” “Hysteria Nostalgia”
and Television Tel-Aviv Century (Seminar)*
My Old School (2022)”
University, “Measures of Seminar leader: Diego
Hudson Moura, Toronto Silvia Casini, University of
Distance in Wall” Cavallotti, University of
Anastasiia Guschina, University Metropolitan University, Aberdeen, “The Moving
Cagliari
of Calgary, “Animating Real “The Real and Unreal Image as Farmakon:
Miri Talmon, The Tisch
Space: Material-Based Worlds of Interactivity: Interrogating the
School of Film and Diego Cavallotti, University
Animated Documentary and Social and Environmental Neuromolecular Gaze
Television Tel-Aviv of Cagliari, “A Television of
the Environment of History” Engagements” through Documentary”
University, “Private Homes, One’s Own: Documenting
Collective Histories: Female the City and the Italian
Marco Bellano, University Stefano Odorico, Yu-Lun Sung, London
Autoethnography as Telestreet Phenomenon”
of Padua, “Animating the Technological University of South Bank University,
Alternative Discourse”
Uncertainty: The Cooperation the Shannon, “Interactive “Embodiment of
Rania Gaafar, University of
between Science and Art in Documentary: A Networked Neurodivergent-divergent
Yael Levy, The Tisch School Arts, Bremen, “Speculative
the Representation of Atoms Polyphonic Approach” Screen Aesthetics through
of Film and Television Tel- Materialities and Transversal
and Subatomic Particles” Desktop Documentary”
Aviv University, “Textual Configurations of the
Lynnessa Parks, The
Feminist Resistance in The Documentary in the Post-
University of the West Tory Jeffay, Dartmouth
Real Housewives’ Multiply- Oriental Middle East”
B2 – Room 3 Indies, “The Exclusionary College, “The Dumb
Connected Form” (online)
Interactive Film and Media: A Reality of Virtual Reality Witness: Disability and the
Complex Ecosystem Technologies” Ecology of Evidence”
Chair: Stefano Odorico,
Technological University of the Sponsored by: XX MAGIS
Shannon

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Information, Design, and
B5 – Room 7
Documentary Ecologies of
B7 – Room 15
Ethics and Politics of the Institutional Greetings/
Special in Asian State
Media
Assembly: Entanglements
of the Analogue and Digital
Essay Film in the 21st
Century*
14.45 – 15.15
Chair: Simran Bhalla, in Methods of Making and Chair: Laura Rascaroli,
University of Southern Receiving University College Cork
California Chair: Nelson Kim, Roberto Pinton, Rector of University of Udine
University of Windsor Paolo Saporito, University Linda Borean, Head of Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Hongwei Thorn Chen, College Cork, “Lost Welcome address from Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region
Tulane University, “In Nick Hector, University of and Beautiful or the Simone Venturini, FilmForum Coordinator
the Shadow of Visual Windsor, “The Way Back, (Environmental) Ethics Michael Renov, Visible Evidence Governing Council
Education: Eastman an Analogue Approach of the Lyric Essay Film” Cristina Formenti, Visible Evidence XXIX
Kodak Classroom Films in to Editing the Digital (online) Simone Dotto, FilmForum XXX
Nationalist China” Documentary”
Deane Williams, Monash
Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung, Allister Gall, University of University, “Ghost Tropic:
UC Irvine, “The Good, the Plymouth, “Film(in)g the Ross Gibson’s Head_
Poor, and the Democratic: City: Pride in Place” Phone_Film_Poems as
The Politics of ‘Good Essayistic Cultural Form”
Design’ in South Korean Nelson Kim, University of Keynote 1/Screening/
Culture Films” Windsor, “Live Documentary
as Negotiating Ground for
Lourdes Monterrubio
Ibáñez, Université Paris 1, 15.15 – 16.45
Simran Bhalla, University Audience Engagement and “The Mediated Encounter
of Southern California, Documentary Truth” as Audiovisual Reflection Keynote 1* Room 8
“The Planning Aesthetic: on the Ethics and Politics of Chair: Cristina Formenti, Human Rights Violations
Animating Design in Indian Globalization” University of Udine and the Possibility of
State-Sponsored Films” B6 – Room 8 Justice (Screening)*
Landscapes and Jaimie Baron, UC Berkeley, Chair: Ernesto Livon-
Cassandra Guan, Technology’s “Documentary Evocations of Grosman, Boston College
Massachusetts Institute Traces (Screening) Wonder”
of Technology, “Beijing Chair: Simona Schneider, Not Just Your Picture by
Olympiad: First Time as University of Udine Dror Dayan, Liverpool John
Mass Spectacle, Second Moores University (online)
Time as Digital Ornament” Slow Return by Philip
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C1 – Room 2
Contemporary Nonfictions of
Repair
Chair: Anne Eakin Moss,
University of Chicago
Anne Eakin Moss, University
of Chicago, “‘Who Will
Be There to Rebuild
it?’: Ukrainian Women
Documentary Filmmakers
and the Cinema of Repair”
Paola Iovene, University of
Chicago, “Ecologies of Rural
Documentary in China and
the Labor of Repair”
Chun Chun Ting, Nanyang
Technological University,
“Personal Documentaries
and the Repairing of a Public Marco Bertozzi, IUAV
World”
Laura Lee, Florida State
University, “Images of Repair:
Documenting Fukushima’s
Abandoned Animals”
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Session C/
17.00 – 18.45
C2 – Room 3
Ecologies of the Ersatz
Screen*
Chair: Wanda Strauven,
Columbia University
Christa Blümlinger, University Images: Weber’s There Will
Paris VIII, “Alexander Kluge’s Be No More Night (2020)”
Offscreen Memories”
Wanda Strauven, Columbia
University, “Recycled (Ship)
Images, Recycled (Ship)
Screens” (online)
Miriam De Rosa, University
Ca’ Foscari of Venice,
“Configuring the Ersatz
Screen Across Documentary
Practices”
University of Venice, “The Fall
of Heroes. Staged Screens
of Italian Colonialism”
Sponsored by XX MAGIS
C3 – Room 4
Spectral Evidence
Chair: Kris Fallon, UC Davis
Nikolaj Lübecker, University
of Oxford, “Phantom
Daniele Rugo, Brunel
University, “Landscape
Forensic: Sensing the
Absence of Violence”
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli,
UCLA, “Ghostly Maps”
C4 – Room 5
Constructing the Real:
Politics, Bolsonarism, and
Audiovisual Performance in
Contemporary Brazil
Chair: Esther Hamburger,
University of São Paulo
Consuelo Lins, Federal
University of Rio de
Janeiro, “From the 2016
Coup to the 2023 Coup:
The Jornal Nacional as an
Archive of the Present”
Esther Hamburger,
University of São Paulo,
“Brasilia, January 8th 2023
and the War of Images”
Fernão Pessoa Ramos,
University of Campinas,
“The Mise-en-scene of
Bolsonarism: Difference
and Repetition”
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C5 – Room 7
From Circulation and
C6 – Room 8
Ecologies of Co-Creation/
Exhibition Practices to Impact
Strategies*
Ecologies in Co-Creation
(Workshop)
Chair: Kristen Fuhs, Woodbury Chair: Dale Hudson, New
University York University Abu Dhabi
Bjørn Sørenssen, Norwegian
University of Science and Presenters:
Technology, “From ‘Kulturfilm’
to ‘Dokumentarfilm’: German Helen De Michiel, California
Documentary Festivals During College of the Arts
the Cold War - Three Venues,
Three Approaches” (online) Judith Aston, University of
the West of England
Pedro Noel Doreste,
Michigan State University, “An Dale Hudson, New York
Accented Seminar: Puerto University Abu Dhabi
Rico’s Division of Community
Education at the Flaherty, Mandy Rose, University of
1955-1963” the West of England
Jens Eder, Film University
Babelsberg Konrad Wolf,
“Varieties of ‘Tactical Impact’:
Options and Obstacles
in Current Cultures of
Documentary Production and
Circulation”
Patrik Sjöberg, The University
in Gävle, “AMBULANTE, A
Mexican Mobile Documentary
Agit-Network: Observations
on Itinerary Documentary
Exhibition Practices”
C7 – Room 15
Documentary Ethics
C8 – Room Limen
An Augmented
C9 – Screening Room
Future Reconstruction of 19.15 – 20.15
(Seminar) Documentary App Digital Found Footage Cinema Visionario/
Seminar leader: Bella Experience (Screening) (Screening)
Welcome Reception
Honess Roe, University of
Surrey
Chair: Luca Caminati,
Concordia University
Chair: Serena Bellotti,
University of Udine & Limina Awards Ceremony
Patricia Aufderheide, AR Cité by Reisa Levine, Artifact (circa 2006): The
American University, “Is Dawson College Archeology of Identity by
Another Documentary
World Possible? A Values
Kirk Tougas, Independent
filmmaker 20.30 – 22.30
Statement for Documentary
Filmmaking and Its Enemies”
Cinema Visionario/Screenings
Ilona Hongisto, Norwegian Room Astra Room Eden Searching for Beauty in
University of Science and Italian Docs: Treasures from Italian Docs: Treasures from Student Loan Debt or at Least
Technology, “The Ethics of Italian Film Archives (1929-1961) Italian Film Archives (1929-1961) the Envelopes in Which It
Documentary Fabulation” Niente va perduto by Francesco Colpi d’ariete by Liberio Comes by Nicky Tavares,
Maselli (1951, 10’, eng. subs., Pensuti (1940, 10’, eng. subs., Grinnell College (2020, 5’)
Michael Renov, University Archivio storico Istituto Luce) Fondazione Cineteca Italiana)
of Southern California, Moderated by: Cristina
“Beyond the Human: Introduced by: Cecilia Spano, Animating Documentary Formenti, University of Udine
Testing the Limits of Archivio storico Istituto Luce - The Mechanics of Fluids
Documentary Ethics” Cinecittà by Gala Hernández López,
Université Paris 8 (2022, 38’)
Focus on Italian
Contemporary Documentary I On the Blue Table by Aleem
Bella e perduta by Pietro Hossain, Occidental College
Marcello (2015, 87’, eng. subs.) (2022, 10’)

Introduced by: Pietro Marcello

and Simone Dotto, University
of Udine

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 The Schedule at a Glance
/Thursday, September 7

8.30-18.30
Registration open
9.30 – 11.15
SESSION D
Break
11.30-13.15
SESSION E
Lunch
15.00 – 16.30
KEYNOTE 2 / SCREENING
Break
16.45 – 18.30
SESSION F
20.30 -22.30
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Session D/9.30-11.15
D1 – Room 3
Forensic and Weaponized
Gazes*
Chair: Laliv Melamed,
University of Groningen
Kari Andén-Papadopoulos,
Institute for Future Studies,
“The Camera as Weapon
in the Syrian Conflict:
Resituating the Liberatory
Potential of Eyewitness
Image Making in Local
Context”
Stephen Woo, Brown
University, “What Is the
Forensic Gaze?”
Anat Dan, University of
Pennsylvania, “Forensic
Ecologies of War” (online)
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D2 – Room 4
The Materiality of Sound*
Chair: Simone Dotto,
University of Udine
Carolyn Birdsall, University
of Amsterdam, and Simone
Dotto, University of Udine,
“Infrastructures of the
Radio Documentary: Sound,
Intermedial Aesthetics and
Transnational Exchange
Between ‘Axis’ Powers
(1930-39)”
Allyson Rogers, McGill
University, “Sounds
of Change: Jazz and
Experimental Music at the
National Film Board of
Canada During Québec’s
Quiet Revolution”
Robert Hardcastle,
University of Canberra,
“Proposing a Model for
Identifying and Mitigating
Misinformation and
Disinformation in the
Television Documentary
Film Soundtrack” (online)
D3 – Room 5
Artificial Intelligence and
the Posthumanus
Chair: Cristina Formenti,
University of Udine
Max Schleser, and Susan
Kerrigan, Swinburne
University of Technology,
“The Creative Treatment
of Actuality in Co-created
Ecologies”
Michal Šimůnek, Film and
TV School of Academy of
Performing Arts in Prague,
“Non-human Documentary
Vision: Photography,
Autonomous Apparatuses,
and Everyday Life”
Anthony McKenna,
Liverpool John Moores
University, “Posthumous
Stardom and the
Paratextual Ecologies of
Elvis Presley’s Comeback
Years”
D4 – Room 7
Documentary Theory
D5 – Room 8
Documenting Genocide
D6 – Room 13
The Representation of
Chair: Michael Renov,
University of Southern
Chair: Maria Zalewska,
Independent scholar
Landscape and the Ecological
Question in Contemporary
California Documentary Cinema
Azra Rashid, University of Chair: Benjamin Léon,
Silke Panse, University for the Sydney, “Translation and Université de Lille
Creative Arts, “Does Ecology Transnational Film”
Come After Documentary, Benjamin Léon, Université
or Is all Documentary Melis Behlil, Kadir Has de Lille, “The Landscape in
Ecological?” University, “Anarchival Movement, the Immobility in
Documentaries: Armenian Presence: Questioning the
Sonny Walbrou, Université Genocide in Turkish Non- Wilderness as a Myth in the
de Lille, “New Media/Old fiction Film” American West”
Matters: Documentaries,
Capitalism and Virtual Spaces” Raya Morag, The Hebrew Raquel Schefer, LIRA,
University, “New Forms of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle,
Carolina Urrutia Neno, Genocidal Documentaries: The “Landscape Figuration
Universidad Católica de Chile, Duel and the Quiet Interview” and Co-representation in
“Realism of the Senses in the Contemporary Experimental
Hybrid Work of Two Chilean Mariana Cunha, University Latin American Cinema”
Filmmakers: Ignacio Agüero of Westminster, “Counter-
and José Luis Torres Leiva” fabulation and Co-creation: Beatriz Rodovalho, Université
Enchantment as Resistance Sorbonne Nouvelle,
Arianna Vergari, Link in Contemporary Latin “Conjuring Land Spirits:
Campus University, “Waste American Ethnofictions” Spectral Territories in
and Rescues: Auratic Indigenous Films from Brazil”
Obsolescence in the Material Sponsored by XX MAGIS
Vision” Paula Albuquerque,
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
University of Applied
Sciences, “Anarchiving Proto-
Surveillance at Colonial Non-
Fiction Collections: An Artistic
Research of Interspecies
Stereotypes in collaboration
35 with Eye Film Museum”
D7 – Room 15
Public and Private Spaces
D8 – Room Limen
Documentaries and Radical
D9 – Screening Room
Life During and After the Session E/11.30 – 13.15
Chair: Efrén Cuevas, Media Ecologies in the XXI Anthropocene (Screening)
University of Navarra Century (Seminar)* Chair: Maria Ida Bernabei,
Seminar leader: University of Turin E1 – Room 3 E2 – Room 4 E3 – Room 5
Efrén Cuevas, and Lourdes Diego Cavallotti, University A Is for Authorship: A Expedition Content (2020)— Midcentury Ecologies of
Esqueda, University of of Cagliari From the River by Paul Forensic Approach to Contexts and the Politics of Nonfiction Film in Europe*
Navarra, “Space and Place Mulraney, Falmouth Authorship Questions in the Listening (Workshop)* Chair: Alice Lovejoy,
in Home Movies Reused in Juan Carlos Rodríguez, University Documentary Space* Chair: Eszter Polonyi, University of Minnesota
Spanish Documentaries” Georgia Institute of Chair: Helen Littleboy, Royal University of Nova Gorica
Technology, “Women, Iconoplast by Sara Holloway University Enrique Fibla, Centre de
Vladimir Rosas-Salazar, Archive, Constitution: The Bonaventura, Independent Presenters: Cultura Contemporania,
University of Warwick, 2019 Chilean Revolt in filmmaker Helen Littleboy, Royal “When Hunger Strikes!
“De(con)struction of Patricio Guzmán’s Mi país Holloway University, Eszter Polonyi, University of Scarcity and Amateur
Community Life: Subverting imaginario” “Death of the Author? Nova Gorica Filmmaking in the Spanish
Amateur-made Moving Industrial Production and Civil War”
Images in A Sinister Sect: Nicole Braida, Johannes Collaborative Agency in the Leimbacher Irina, California
Colonia Dignidad” Gutenberg Universität BBC Series Hospital” Institute of the Arts Simona Schneider,
Mainz, “Data for Co- University of Udine,
Patricia Ciccone, University liberation: Visualizing Stephen Connolly, Henning Engelke, Philipps “Note Fotografiche and
of Southern California, “To Feminicides” University for the Creative University Marburg Agfa’s Italian Amateur
Maintain or to Destroy? Arts - ICI, “Authorship in Documentary Campaign”
Mediating the Unfinished Contest: A Report from Ilisa Barbash, Peabody
City in Victoria (2020)” the Boundaries of Creative Museum of Archaeology Andrea Mariani, University
Documentary” (online) and Ethnology, Harvard of Udine, “The Latent
Alireza Rabiei Kenari, University Sound: The Limits of
University of Amsterdam, Jessica Boyall, Royal Amateur Film Technology
“Spatiality in Iranian Recent Holloway University, Veronika Kusumaryati, and the Material Heritage of
Docufictions: Spatial “Feminist Networks for University Wisconsin- Fascism”
Criticism in The Wind Will Collaborative Witnessing: Madison (online)
Carry Us (1999), Taxi Tehran Examining Ceddo’s Alice Lovejoy, University
(2015) and Radiograph of a Enduring Models of Radical of Minnesota, “Shortage
Family (2020)” Authorship” and Abundance: Exile-
Government Documentary
and Francophone Colonial

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E4 – Room 7
Labor’s Process: Theory
and Documentary in
Changing Media Ecologies
Chair: Barbara Mennel,
University of Florida
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky,
University of Chicago,
“Burying the Device”
Loren Pilcher, University at
Buffalo, “Enduring Visions
of Labor in Jim Crow Era
Government Films”
Alison Walsh, University
of Florida, “The Spectacle
of Labor in Social Media
Tutorial Videos”
Barbara Mennel, University
of Florida, “Making
Miniatures, Documenting
Scale”
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E5 – Room 8 E6 – Room 13 E7 – Room 15 Matteo Dutto, Monash E8 – Screening Room
Ecocriticism, Elemental Uses of Archival Materials* Migrant Documentary* University, “Decolonising Queer Masculinities and
Media Chair: Jaimie Baron, UC Chair: Ilona Hongisto, Migrant Cinema: the Intimate Documentary
Chair: S Topiary Landberg, Berkeley Norwegian University of Transcultural Encounters (Screening)
UC Santa Cruz Science and Technology and Indigenous Activism in Chair: Roger Hallas,
Jiří Anger, National Film the Documentaries of Fabio Syracuse University
Maria Ida Bernabei, Archive, Czech Republic, Boris Ruzic, University of Cavadini”
University of Turin, and “Quarantine the Past: Anti- Rijeka, “Documentaries Manscaping by Broderick
Lucilla Calogero, Università Nostalgic Use of Archival of Absence: Images that Martin Potter, Deakin Fox, Occidental College
Iuav di Venezia, “Floating Footage in Woodstock Move” University, “Memories That
Between Digital and ‘99 Documentaries on Make Us: Remembering
Biological Ecosystems: Streaming Platforms” Jeroen Boom, Radboud as a Documentary
Metagoon” University Nijmegen, Methodology”
Melinda Blos-Jáni, Sapientia “Hiding Faces, Blurring
Brenda Longfellow, York Hungarian University of Bodies: Disruptive Images
University, “New Canadian Transylvania, “Lengthening of Displacement” (online)
Eco-Cinemas: Placemaking, and Freezing the Image:
Immersiveness and The Sensual Archaeologies Keynote 2/Screening
Alternate Ecologies of
Relationality in Lichen (2019,
of the Archive”
/15.00–16.30
Lisa Jackson), Vulture Senjuti Mukherjee,
(2019, Phil Hoffman) and University of Pittsburgh, Rooms 3 and 4 Room 8
Geographies of Solitude “Anthologizing Viral Keynote 2* Belarusian Landscapes
(2022, Jacquelyn Mills)” Media: Creative Agents of (Screening)
Documentary in the Age of Crossing the Line: Pietro Chair: Lucía Salas,
B. Dalia Hatalova, Democratic Erosion and the Marcello’s Hybrid Cinema Universidad Pompeu Fabra
University of Southern Internet”
California, “Hot Jungle Pietro Marcello, Belarusian Atlantis by
Sex: Anthropomorphism, Angela English, Independent filmmaker Victor Asliuk, Independent
Sexuality, and Reproduction Birmingham City filmmaker
in BBC Earth’s The Mating University, “Soundscapes In dialogue with: Laura
Game (2021)” in Fragmented Archive and Rascaroli, University College
Documentary Film” (online) Cork
Sponsored by XX MAGIS
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F1 – Room 3
Forms of Authorship in
Collaborative Documentary*
Chair: Deane Williams,
Monash University
Silvia Angeli, University of
Manchester, “From Quattro
strade (2020) to Futura
(2021): Alice Rohrwacher’s
Collaborative Documentaries”
Mikhail Zakharov, University Jennifer Horne, UC Santa University of Applied
of Warwick, “From Invisibility Cruz, “Civic Mediation, the Sciences and the University
to Hypervisibility: Autofiction, Birth Certificate, and a
Diffuse Authorship, and
Digitality in Russian LGBTQ+
Documentaries of the 2010s” Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, CineGraph -
Astrid Korporaal, Kingston
University, “Distributed Co-
Authorship in Decolonial
Filmmaking Ecologies”
Alma Mileto, Sapienza
University of Rome, “‘More
Intensively Alive than
Humans’: Quercus 13.06 by
Formafantasma” (online)
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F4 – Room 7
Documentary and Muslim
F5 – Room 8
Non-Fiction Ecologies and
F6 – Room 13
Contemporary Ecologies of
Identity* the Indian State* Compilation Film*
Chair: Narmeen Ijaz, Indiana Chairs: Ankita Deb, Chairs: Sonia García López,
University Stanford University, and Universidad Carlos III de
F2 – Room 4 F3 - Room 5
Ritika Kaushik, Goethe Madrid, and David Wood,
Documentary’s Biopolitical Film and Media Heritage
Narmeen Ijaz, Indiana University Universidad Nacional
Forms* II: Documenting the
University, “Beyond the Veil: Autónoma de México
Chair: Benjamin Schultz- Documentary (Workshop)
Muslim Women Filmmakers Rishika Mehrishi, UC San
Figueroa, University of Chair: Jan Distelmeyer,
Using Documentary to Diego, “Of Monkeys and Sonia García López,
Seattle Potsdam University of
Make Visible the Invisible” Migrants: The Multispecies Universidad Carlos III de
Applied Sciences and the
Metropolis of Eeb Allay Madrid, and David Wood,
Laliv Melamed, University University of Potsdam
Cüneyt Çakırlar, Ooo!” (online) Universidad Nacional
of Groningen, “‘It Looks like
Nottingham Trent Autónoma de México, “The
a Snake’: Sovereignty in Presenters:
University, “Ameliorative Ankita Deb, Stanford Compilation Machine: Past
Subterranean Terrains”
Homecomings: University, “Medical Realism: and Present Forms of Film-
Jan Distelmeyer, Potsdam
Intersectional Queerness in Censorship, State, and the historical Meditation”
Parvez Sharma’s A Sinner in Sex Education Films in
Mecca (2015)” 1970s India” Oksana Sarkisova, Central
of Potsdam
European University, “Life
Documentary History”
Syeda Momina Masood, Ritika Kaushik, Goethe of an Agent, Revisited:
Hans-Michael Bock,
University of Pittsburgh, University - Frankfurt, Socialist Secret Police and
“Of Showgirls and Hijras: “Travails of the Filmwallahs: Regimes of (In)Visibility
University of Seattle, Hamburgisches Centrum
The Queer Feminist State Sponsored in Eastern European
“Animal Test Images: für Filmforschung
Documentary in Pakistan” Documentary and the Compilation Films”
Documentary and the Limits
(online) Ecologies of Rural
of Biopolitical Governance” Gisela Tuchtenhagen,
Distribution in India” Jesse Lerner, Intercollegiate
(online) Independent filmmaker
Khurram Sheikh, Indiana Media Studies at the
University, “Documentary Claremont Colleges,
Ethics and Film Festivals: “Compilation Documentary
The Controversy of Jihad and the Mexican Revolution”
Rehab (2021)” (online)
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F7 – Room 15
Documentary Ethics
(Seminar)
Seminar leader: Bella
Honess Roe, University of
Surrey
Bella Honess Roe,
University of Surrey,
“Flee and the Problem
of Misplaced Empathy in
Animated Documentaries”
Helen Hughes, University
of Surrey, “The Ethics
of Animation Re-use:
Historical Animation and the
Nuclear Debate”
Slava Greenberg, University
of Amsterdam, “Listening
for Disembodied Crip and
Trans Voices in Animated
Documentary”
Alex Widdowson, Queen Sponsored by XX MAGIS
Mary University of London,
“The Collaborative Reflexive
Cycle: An Animated
Documentary Ethical
Practice Methodology”
42
F8 – Room Limen
Immersivity and Gaming*
Chair: Kass Banning,
University of Toronto
Jihoon Kim, Chung-ang
University, “VR’s Synthetic
Vision, New Materialism,
and the Nature Without
Humans: Rethinking
Ecological Virtual Reality
Documentaries”
Farah Atoui,
Concordia University,
“Oceanic Mediation:
Countervisualizing Syrian
Refugees’ Sea Crossings”
(online)
Juliet Brown, University
College London, “Lessons
Learnt During the Co-
creation of a Docugame”
F9 – Screening Room
Documentary and the Real 20.30 – 22.30
(Workshop) Cinema Visionario
Chair: Stefanie Baumann,
IFILNOVA/ New University
/Screenings
of Lisbon
Room Astra Room Eden
Presenters: Italian Docs: Treasures from Preserving Italian Film
Italian Film Archives (1929- Heritage
Stefanie Baumann, 1961)
IFILNOVA/ New University Roberto Taroni – Luisa
of Lisbon Sette canne, un vestito by Cividin: Experimental and
Michelangelo Antonioni Expanded Cinema Film
Joshua Malitsky, Indiana (1948, 10’, eng. subs., Collection by Roberto
University Cineteca del Friuli) Taroni, Luisa Cividin (1977-
1982, 58’, eng. subs)
Marie Voignier, École des Introduced by: Elena
Arts Décoratifs Paris Beltrami, Cineteca del Friuli Introduced by: Roberto
Taroni, Luisa Cividin and
Giovanbattista Tusa, A First-person Perspective Giulia Govi Cavani, Jennifer
IFILNOVA/ New University on Disability Malvezzi, University of
of Lisbon Parma
Eat Your Catfish by Adam
Isenberg, Independent La battaglia dall’Astico al
filmmaker (2021, 74’) Piave (1918, 58’, eng. subs,
University of Udine)
Moderated by: Helen
Hughes, University of Introduced by: Serena
Surrey Bellotti and Simone
Venturini, University of
Udine
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/Friday, September 8
8.30-18.30
Registration open
9.30 – 11.15
SESSION G
Break
11.30-13.15
SESSION H
Lunch

15.00 – 16.30
VISIBLE EVIDENCE BUSINESS MEETING
/ SCREENINGS
Break
16.45 – 18.30
SESSION I
20.30 -22.00
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Session G/9.30 – 11.15
G1 – Room 3
The Environmental
Documentary and Its
Possible Shapes*
Chair: Janet Walker, UC
Santa Barbara
Muriel Tinel-Temple,
University of Roehampton,
“Jacques Perconte as
Documentarist: Aesthetic
and Ethical Explorations of
a Territory”
Simon Troon, Monash
University, “Mediating
an Australian Athlete’s
Environmentalism Through
Documentary” (online)
Daniel Mann, Queen Mary
University of London,
“Desert Screens: Cinema,
War and Hyper Arid Land”
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G2 – Room 4
Decentering Human
Agency in Contemporary
Eco Cinema
Chair: Bori Máté, University
of Applied Arts Vienna
Markus Maicher, University
of Applied Arts Vienna,
“Lo-Fi, High-Contrast.
Hand-made Film Ecologies
and the Material Body of
Analog Film”
Bori Máté, University of
Applied Arts Vienna, “A
Mapping of Interference
and the Possibilities of
Capturing Ecological
Trauma in Malena Szlam’s
Altiplano (2018)”
Gabriele Jutz, University
of Applied Arts Vienna,
“Bodily Sounds in
Ecopoetic Cinema”
G3 – Room 5
Useful Cinema and Energy
Infrastructures*
Chair: Ritika Kaushik,
Goethe University -
Frankfurt
Mats Björkin, University of
Gothenburg, “The Lure of
Unmade Non-fiction Films”
Paolo Villa, University
of Pavia-Cremona, “The
‘Rhetoric of the Dam’.
Modernising Mountain
Landscapes in Italian Post-
war Documentaries”
Belinda Smaill, Monash
University, “The
Documentary Image and
Australia’s 20th Century
Energy Imaginary” (online)
G4 – Room 8
Forms of Fabrication in the
Post-Truth Age*
Chair: Kristen Fuhs,
Woodbury University
Dominic Lees, University
of Reading, “Deepfakes
and Documentaries:
Images of Deception in the
Representation of the Real”
Marcus Gale, Independent
scholar and filmmaker,
“An Ecosystem of
Fabrications: Reframing the
Mockumentary”
G5 – Room 13
Issues in Collaborative
Documentary
Chair: Vinicius Navarro,
Emerson College
Cole Nelson, Indiana
University, “Resisting
Postcolonial Melancholia:
Anticolonial Historicism in
the Films of the Victor Jara
Collective”
Thomas Weber, Universität
Hamburg, “Transformative
Documentary Research in
Teaching”
G6 – Room 15
Documentary and Visual Arts
Chair: Elena Caoduro,
Queen’s University Belfast
Jayson Lantz, University of
Southern California, “Late
Modern Eye-Lines, or the
Documentary Book-Objects
of Paul Strand and Chris
Marker”
Sergio De Lucidibus,
Yale University, “Modern
Wanderers: The Scale
of Francesco Pasinetti’s
Iconography”
G7 – Room Limen
Documentary and the
Amateur Media Swarming
(Seminar)*
Seminar leader: Andrea
Mariani, University of Udine
Annamaria Motrescu-
Mayes, University of
Cambridge, “Synthetic
Selfies: The Re-circulation
of Amateur media as
Certified Documentaries”
Charles Tepperman,
University of Calgary,
“Amateur Movie Club as
Swarm” (online)
Tze-lan Deborah Sang,
Michigan State University,
“Chinese Vloggers’
Documentaries on Global
Social Media”
G8 – Screening Room
Female Co-creation and
Beyond (Screening)*
Chair: Michael Renov,
University of Southern
California
Rua Dos Anjos (Rising Sun
Blues) by Renata Ferraz,
Universidade da Beira
Interior and Universidade de
Lisboa (online)

Kris Fallon, UC Davis, “Faith Vinicius Navarro, Emerson
in Fakes: BeReal and the
Post-Truth Backlash”
Paola Voci, University
of Otago, “A Postdigital
Approach to Documentary
Filmmaking: The Ethical
Frame in Chinese
Documentary” (online)
College, “In the Company
of Strangers: Globality, Co-
existence, and Documentary
Ecologies”
Dorothy Barenscott,
Kwantlen Polytechnic
University, “Breaking the
Fourth Wall: Exposing the
Business of Contemporary
Art in Documentary Film”
Elena Caoduro, Queen’s
University Belfast, “The
Ecology of Fashion
Documentaries: Celebratory,
Critical and Iconic”
Sponsored by XX MAGIS
Session H/11.30 – 13.15
H1 – Room 3 Dagmara Rode, University A Participatory Artivist
Documentary and Feminist of Lodz, “‘We Share Stories. Approach to Women’s
Activism* These Stories Are Ours Homelessness”
Chair: Boel Ulfsdotter, and Common’. Non-fiction
University of Gothenburg Videos in Digital Feminist Tania Ahmadi, Columbia
Activism” University, “A Quiet
Boel Ulfsdotter, University Revolution: Iranian Women
of Gothenburg, “The Hybrid Marta Fiolić, NOVA Through a Docu-Cinematic
Activism of Nahid Persson’s University of Lisbon, “We Lens” (online)
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Non-human and Post-
human Ecologies*
Chair: Alisa Lebow,
University of Sussex
Christopher Pavsek, Simon
Fraser University, “What We
Come to See and Hear in
Joshua Bonnetta’s The Two
Sights/An Dà Shealladh
(2020)” (online)
Toby Ashworth, University
of Cambridge, “Volcanic
Intimacy and Archival
Matter(s) in Werner
Herzog’s The Fire Within
and Sara Dosa’s Fire of
Love”
Eric Coombs Esmail, and
Emilie Upczak, University
of Colorado Boulder, “Leo
Sacer (Working Title):
Documentary Approaches
to Ecological Violence”
50
H3 – Room 5 H4 – Room 8 H5 – Room 13 Vinzenz Hediger, Goethe Chris Cagle, Temple
Ecological Perspectives and Risible Evidence (Workshop) On the Politics and Ethics University, “Passive Injustice, University, “Where Are They
the Communal* Chair: Leshu Torchin, of North-South Archival Mistrust and Documentary” Now? The Afterlives of
Chair: Paola Iovene, University of St. Andrews Cooperation: Three Case Documentary Characters”
University of Chicago Studies Ranjani Mazumdar,
Presenters: Chair: Erica Carter, King’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, Christie Milliken, Brock
Abby Corbett, University of College London “The Emergency and Its University, “Affect and
Southern California, “‘We Leshu Torchin, University of Media Afterlife” Abstraction: Harnessing the
Were Born in the Middle of St. Andrews Nikolaus Perneczky, Queen Politics of Viewing and Caring
the ‘Ecology’’: Hybrid Modes Mary University of London, Pallavi Paul, Martin in Ai Weiwei’s Migration
of Representation and Ohad Landesman, Tel Aviv “Moving Image Restitution: Gropius Bau and the Trilogy”
Cosmocentrism in The Last University Some Lessons from Wissenschaftskolleg,
Forest (2021)” Australia” “Mediatised Contagion: Nora Alter, Temple
Cristina Formenti, University Some Propositions on University, “Into the Gallery:
Philippa Lovatt, University of Udine Erica Carter, King’s College Pandemic Media” Documentary’s New Space”
of St Andrews, “Of ‘Spaces London, “Hussein Shariffe:
In-between’: Experimental Patrick Smith, University of Unfinished Films, Circulating Veena Hariharan, Jawaharlal
Film Practices, Community Warwick Archives” Nehru University/Goethe H8 – Screening Room
Organising, and Hanoi University, “Documenting Memory and Value of Life
DocLab” (online) Marc Francis, Loyola Jessica Gordon-Burroughs, Hate: Mobile Witnessing and (Screening)
Marymount University of Edinburgh, Vigilante Publics” Chair: Silvia Zoppis, University
Michael Holly, University of “Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s of Udine
Sussex, “Documentary as Philip Cartelli, Wagner Inside Downtown (2001):
Existential Process: On the College Recovering Diasporic Video H7 – Room 15 From the Frontline by
Regenerative Aesthetic of Archives” Documentary Reception: Shreepali Patel, University
Kiri Dalena’s Pila (2022)” Audiences and Institutions of the Arts, London, and
from the Popular Doc to the Marques Hardin, Anglia
Gert Jan Harkema, H6 – Room 14 Art World Ruskin University
University of Amsterdam, Ecologies of the Chair: Chris Cagle, Temple
“Neighborhood Films Real: Witnessing, Memory, University Sponsored by XX MAGIS
and Localized Ecologies Knowledge and Publics
of Precarity in Dutch Chair: Veena Hariharan, Kristen Fuhs, Woodbury
Documentary” Jawaharlal Nehru University/ University, “Popular
Goethe University Documentary and the Labor
of Stardom”
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 Visible Evidence Business Meeting
/Screenings/
15.00–16.30
Room 3 Room 4
Visible Evidence Business In the Archive (Screening)
Meeting Chair: Ohad Landesman, Tel
Aviv University
The Shadow Line by Claudy
Op den Kamp,
Bournemouth University
Session I/16.45 – 18.30
I1 – Room 3 Lizzie Thynne, University
Female Documentary of Sussex, “Reimagining
Filmmakers British Documentary
Chair: Barbara Evans, York History: Structures of
University Feeling in Women’s Non-
fiction Film, 1930–1950”
Barbara Evans, York
University, “Innovating and Corina Copp, University
Experimenting: The Work of of Southern California,
Early Women Documentary “Vertical Comradeship
Filmmakers” Across the Feminist
Collective Documentary”
52
Room 8
Poetics of Relation and
Ecology (Screening)
Chair: Maria Ida Bernabei,
University of Turin
Accession by Armand
Yervant Tufenkian (and
Tamer Hany Hassan), UC
San Diego
Marco Meneghin, Concordia
University, “Marta Rodríguez
in Paris: Politicizing
Collaborative Approaches to
Visual Ethnography”
Sponsored by XX MAGIS
I2 – Room 4 I3 – Room 5 I4 – Room 8
The Poetics of
Incommensurability:
Chinese Documentary: The
Ecological as Subject and
Filming the Enemy?
Political Antagonism in
Environmental Documentary
and More-than-human
Method
Chair: Ying Qian, Columbia
Documentary Film*
Chair: Christine
Entanglements* University, and Yiman Wang, Moderbacher, Max
Chair: S Topiary Landberg, UC Santa Cruz Planck Institute for Social
UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Halle, and
Ying Qian, Columbia Michael Karrer, Martin-
James Leo Cahill, University University, “Instructional Luther-Universität Halle-
of Toronto, “Stray Exposures Organisms: Early Socialist Wittenberg
(Without Measure)” Science Education Film
and Environmental Media in Eva van Roekel, Vrije
Isabelle Carbonell, The China” Universiteit Amsterdam,
American University of “Falling: An Essay Film
Paris, “Expanded Close-ups: Yiman Wang, UC Santa about Collaborative
Monsters and Endoscopes” Cruz, “River Stories: The Filmmaking with
Ecology of Television Perpetrators in Argentina”
S Topiary Landberg, UC Documentary in the Post-
Santa Cruz, “Shifting the Mao Decade” Michael Karrer, Martin-
‘I’/Eye: All that Breathes,
Geographies of Solitude Jia Tan, The Chinese
Luther-Universität Halle-
Wittenberg, “Mocking
and Nuisance Bear” University of Hong the Dictator: Images of
Kong, “The Submerged Pinochet in Left-Wing
Elizabeth Miller, Concordia Seeing and Hearing: Documentary Films”
University, “En Vollant (In Eco-documentary and
Flight)” (online) Underwater Filmmaking in Marcelo Pedroso Holanda
Hong Kong” de Jesus, Independent
scholar, “Filming the Police:
Margaret Hillenbrand, Possibilities of Agonistic
University of Oxford, “Digital Relations in Documentary
Documentaries, Making Filmmaking” (online)
Memory, and Solitary
Spectatorship”
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Simon Brückner, I6 – Room 14 I7 – Room 15 I8 – Room Limen Emma Sandon, Birbeck I9 – Screening Room
Independent scholar, Shifts of the Eye. Documentary Ethics Drilling, Mining, Shooting... University, “Mining the Film Boarders (Screening)*
“Observational Confronting the Taroni- (Seminar) and Conquering: Locating Archive. South Africa’s Chair: Matteo Citrini,
Documentary Film in the Cividin Archive 1977-1984 Seminar leader: Bella Useful Documentary Cinema Mining Industry and Film University of Udine
Field of Tension Between (Workshop) Honess Roe, University of within Global Economies and Production”
Cognition, Experience and Chair: Flora Pitrolo, Surrey Ecologies of Extraction* A Field Guide to Coastal
Moral Valuation” Birbeck University Chair: Simone Dotto, University
Nariman Massoumi, Fortifications by Tijana
Johanna Laub, Goethe of Udine University of Bristol, “Out Petrovic, Independent
Presenters: University, “An Animated of the Ashes: Oil Well Fires filmmaker
I5 – Room 13 Archive: Ana Vaz’s Harifa Siregar, Georgia and the Emergence of
A Culture of Reality: Roberto Taroni, Apiyemiyekî (2019) and the State University, “Goodyear’s Poetic Documentary in Iran” I Dream of Vietnam by Jiayu
Roberto Rossellini’s Independent filmmaker (Non-)Representation of Conquering the Jungle (1920): Yang, Temple University
Documentaries (1957–1977) Colonial Violence” Indonesia, Rubber, and Modern (online)
Chair: Francesco Pitassio, Jennifer Malvezzi, Techniques” (online)
University of Udine University of Parma Sanghita Sen,

Luca Caminati, Concordia Giulia Govi Cavani,

Northumbria University,
“Working with Counter- 20.30 – 22.30
University, “Rossellini’s University of Parma archives: Challenges for Cinema Visionario
Dams Films”
Simone Venturini,
Documentary Ethics”
/Screenings
Margherita Moro, University University of Udine Ludovica Fales, University Room Astra Introduced by: Michelangelo Documenting Sexuality in
of Udine, “Describing College London, “The Italian Docs: Treasures from Frammartino and Maria Ida Rural Portugal
Science: A New Chapter Collaborative Process Italian Film Archives (1929- Bernabei, University of Turin A Pleasure, Comrades! by
in the Unfinished Project of Making Lala between 1961) José Filipe Costa, IADE -
made by Roberto Rossellini Participatory Writing and I dimenticati by Vittorio De Universidade Europeia
in Houston” Documentary Performative Seta (1959, 18’, eng. subs., Room Eden
Workshops” Fondazione Cineteca di Italian Docs: Treasures from Moderated by: Efrén
Michael Cramer, Sarah Bologna) Italian Film Archives (1929- Cuevas, University of
Lawrence College, 1961) Navarra
“Rossellini at the Centre Focus on Italian La canta delle marane by
Pompidou” Contemporary Documentary II Cecilia Mangini (1961, 15’,
Il buco by Michelangelo eng. subs., Fondazione
Frammartino (2021, 93’, eng. Cineteca di Bologna)
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/Saturday, September 9
8.30-18.30
Registration open
9.30 – 11.15
SESSION J
Break
11.30-13.15
SESSION K
Lunch
15.00 – 16.30
KEYNOTE 3 / SCREENING
Break
16.45 – 18.30
SESSION L
18:30-19:15
Champagne Reception
20.30 -22.00
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Session J/9.30 – 11.15
J1 – Room 3 J2 – Room 4
Radical Documentary Docudrama and Semi-
Chair: Ryan Watson, documentary
Misericordia University Chair: Linnea Hussein, New
York University
Ryan Watson, Misericordia
University, “Radical Civic Nilo Couret, University
Media: Equipe Media, of Michigan, “Towards a
Western Sahara and Global Mannerist Documentary:
Documentary Ecologies” Description and
Incommensurability in
Eli Boonin-Vail, University Laura Huertas Millán’s
of Pittsburgh, “‘That’s What Ethnographic Fictions”
America Means’: Prison”
– Teach Our Children Linnea Hussein, New
(1972) as Proto-Abolitionist York University, “The
Geography” Documentary Intermezzo:
Drama, Reenactments, and
Christian Rossipal, Scenes of Nonfiction in
New York University, Between”
“Transatlantic Crossings:
Madubuko Diakité and Ella Klik, Bar-Ilan University,
Black Radical Documentary” “Watching Cosmic Futures:
NASA, Documentation, and
Space Exploration”
J3 – Room 5
Documenting Trauma
Chair: Teisi Ligi, Tallinn
University
Kamilla Simor, Sapientia
Hungarian University of
Transylvania and University
of Pecs, “To Forget and (Re)
remember: Representing
War Trauma in Performative
Documentaries”
Beja Margitházi, Eötvös
Loránd University,
“‘Traumatomic’
Ecomaterialities.
Performing Radioactivity in
Experimental Documents of
Chernobyl”
Allison Ross, Loyola
Marymount University,
“Sarah Polley: Truth and/as
Imagination”

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J4 – Room 6 J5 – Room 8
Overlapping Generations, Reassessing Iconic
Technologies, and Documentaries
Struggles* Chair: Ivelise Perniola, Roma
Chair: Jason Fox, New York Tre University
University
Chris Wahl, Film University
Stefan Tarnowski, University Babelsberg KONRAD
of Cambridge, “Bidayyat: WOLF, “Eco-Systems of
Reconstructing the a Nazi Documentary: The
Problem” Dynamics in, of, and Around Eleonora Diamanti,
Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the John Cabot University,
Kareem Estefan, University Will”
of Cambridge, “Virtual
Returns to Palestine: Carmelo Marabello,
Overlapping Generations IUAV, “Comment vis tu?
and Palimpsestic Media” Cronique d’une été as
Autoethnography Trough
Nadine Fattaleh, New York Film”
University, “Omar Amiralay,
From One Generation to Roger Hallas, Syracuse
Another” (online) University, “The Afterlives of
Paris Is Burning”
Alina Predescu, UC
Berkeley, “The Ethics of
the Senses: Gleaning as
Undoing Waste in Agnès
Varda’s The Gleaners and I”
J6 – Room 10
Documenting the Night
Chair: Alanna Thain, McGill
University
Selmin Kara, OCAD
University, “Contemporary
Documentary’s Nocturnal
Ecologies”
“Documenting the Night in
Cuba: Between Sensory
Audiovisual Ethnography
and Non-fiction Cinema”
William Straw, McGill
University, “The ‘Cinematic
Nocturne’ as Scene of
Struggle”
Alanna Thain, McGill
University, “Loop, Echo,
Return: Documenting the
Cinesonic Night of Outdoor
Cinema”
J7 – Room 13
Displacement*
Chair: Agnieszka
Piotrowska, Manchester
School of Art
Agnieszka Piotrowska,
Manchester School of Art,
“The Ethics of Collaboration:
The Case Study of Wash
(2022)”
Patrícia Nogueira,
University of Beira Interior,
“Transgressive Images
in Autobiographical
Documentary: Tila
Chitunda’s Films on the
Black Atlantic Route”
Shahrzad Ghobadlou,
Arizona State University,
“Exile and Underground
Documentaries: The Art
of Documenting Systemic
Gender Suppression”
(online)
J8 – Room Limen J9 – Screening Room
Documentary and the Bodies and Gender
Amateur Media Swarming (Screening)
(Seminar)* Chair: Margherita Moro,
Seminar leader: Andrea University of Udine
Mariani, University of Udine
My Body Is a Place, Just
Alyssa Grossman, University Like Any Other by Petra
of Liverpool, “Home Movies Totten, University of Toronto
Forgotten, Recollected and
Transformed” Fragile and You Can See
the Sun in Late December
Tim van der Heijden, by Sasha Waters, Virginia
Open University in Commonwealth University
the Netherlands,
“Understanding through
Experimentation: Re-
enacting a 16mm Home
Movie” (online)
Ciara Chambers, University
College Cork, “Conflict
and Creative Reuse: The
Return of Northern Ireland’s
Amateur Chroniclers”
(online)
Ming Yu-Lee, Shih Hsin
University, “Mr. Bean versus
Carson Clay: The Use of
Amateur Film Footage in
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K1 – Room 3
Emile De Antonio - Radical
Thinking: Activism, Archive
and the Voice*
Chair: Nikolaj Lubecker,
University of Oxford
Stella Bruzzi, University
College London, “The
Power of Actuality: De
Antonio’s Political Use of
Archive Footage”
Randolph Lewis, University
of Texas, “Unofficial
Versions: From Rush to
Judgment to ‘Truther Docs’”
(online)
Abi Weaver, University of
Surrey, “The Voice and
Politics in De Antonio’s
Interview Films”
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K2 – Room 4
Japanese Transnational
Ecologies and Docufiction*
Chair: Julia Alekseyeva,
University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Coates,
University of Sheffield,
“From Docufiction to
Ethnofiction: Screening
Lived Experiences in
Contemporary Japanese
Cinema”
Paride Stortini, University
of Tokyo, “Across Borders,
Media, and Genres:
The 1980s Japanese
Documentary The Silk
Road”
Takuya Tsunoda, Columbia
University, “Hani Susumu
and Genealogies of Global
Vérité” (online)
Julia Alekseyeva,
University of Pennsylvania,
“Matsumoto Toshio and the
Global Anti-fascist Avant-
garde”
K4 – Room 6
Documentary and Collective
K5 – Room 8
Disability Ecologies Between
K6 – Room 10
Documentary Festival
Memory Documentary and Fantasy* Ecosystems: Perspectives
Chair: Agnieszka Piotrowska, Chair: Helen Hughes, from Ibero-america*
Manchester School of Art University of Surrey Chair: Aida Vallejo,
K3 – Room 5
University of the Basque
Decolonizing Documentary*
Anu Koivunen, University of Phoebe Hart, Queensland Country
Chair: Mats Björkin,
Turku, “Persistent Ecologies: University of Technology,
University of Gothenburg
Historical Documentaries in “Docu-mania: The Impact Juliana Muylaert, Federal
Public Service Media” of Contemporary Disability Fluminense University,
Lee Douglas, Goldsmiths
Docu-Practices” “Exploring Ethnographic
University of London,
Xinran Liu, City University of and Documentary Film
“Memory, Ecology, and
Hong Kong, “Representing Robert Stock, Humboldt Festival Circuits in Brazil”
Amateur Film: (Counter)
Hong Kong Women’s Oral University Berlin, (online)
Archives and the Everyday
History in an Intimate Public “Documentary Fictions and
in Portuguese Film
Sphere Through Interactive Blind Lived Experiences” María Paz Peirano,
Archives”
Docufiction” Universidad de Chile,
Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas “Documentary Film
Lara Bulger, Queen’s
Ron Ma, University of Tech University, “Seeing Audiences and Audience
University, “One Step
Amsterdam, “The Making the Disabled Cowboy: Formation at Film Festivals:
Forward, Two Steps
of the People: Hong Kong Fraught Fusions of Genre The Case of FIDOCS”
Sideways: The Veneer of
Documentaries and the and Documentary in Chloé
Progress at the National
Articulation of Political Zhao’s The Rider” Sebastián González
Film Board of Canada”
Collectivity” Itier, Universidad de
(online)
Veronica Wain, University Los Andes, “Rethinking
Prataˉ p Rughani, University of of the Sunshine Coast Documentary Borders from
Maggie Roberts, University
the Arts London, “Creating and Griffith University Film the Film Festival Program
of Southern California,
Impossible Conversations: School, “Bus Stop Films: Perspective: Hybridity and
“Decolonizing the Image
Towards ‘Restorative Narrative’” Intellectual Disability and the Docufiction at FICValdivia”
Through Slowness:
Acquisition of Filmmaking
Contemporary Sketches
Skills in the Twenty-first Aida Vallejo, University
of the Nonfictional Avant-
Century” (online) of the Basque Country,
Garde”
“Documentary Festivals
in Iberoamerica: A Digital
Sponsored by XX MAGIS
Humanities Approach”
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Migrant Documentary
(Screening)*
Chair: Joshua Malitsky,
Indiana University
The Seed of Love es Paz
by David Villalvazo, Temple
University (online)
If Not Now by Jill Daniels,
University of East London
(online)
K8 – Room Limen
The Preoccupations of
K9 – Screening Room
Forms of Conservation Keynote 3
Documentary Mediation
Chair: Bhaskar Sarkar, UC
in an (Un)natural World
(Screening)*
/Screening/15.00–16.30
Santa Barbara Chair: Lucía Salas, Rooms 3 and 4 Room 8
Universidad Pompeu Fabra Keynote 3* Participatory Democracy,
Jeff Scheible, King’s Dwelling on the Edge of Participatory Media
College London, “The A Common Sequence by Visible Knowledge (Screening)
Unlikely Politics and Mike Gibisser, University Chair: Ohad Landesman, Tel
Elemental Aesthetics of of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Michelangelo Frammartino, Aviv University
Table Tennis Today (1929)” (and Mary Helena Clark, Independent filmmaker,
Independent filmmaker) and Giovanna Giuliani, Between the Sun and the
Bishnupriya Ghosh, UC (online) Screenwriter Sidewalk by Helen De Michiel,
Santa Barbara, “Wonder California College of the Arts
Drug Wars in Epidemic In dialogue with: Barbara
Documentary” Grespi, University of Milan

Joshua Neves, Concordia

University, “Memory Care:
Session L/16.45–18.30
Documenting the Opioid L1 – Room 3
Crisis” World Documentary
Distribution/Exhibition/
Bhaskar Sarkar, Production as Communist
UC Santa Barbara, International Ecosystem*
“Documentary Reparation, Chair: Jane Gaines, Columbia
or the Persistence of the University
Cinematic”
Jane Gaines, Columbia
University, “The Ecology
of Communist Agit-Prop
International Distribution”
Monica Dall’Asta, University
of Bologna, “When Kinokism
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met Mezhrabpomfil’m: Mikhail L2 – Room 4
Kaufman’s In Spring (1929)” The Undoing and
Remaking of the World: NZ
Ainamar Clariana-Rodagut, Documentary and a Feminist
Universitat Oberta de Ethics of Care
Catalunya, “Women Mediators Chair: Annie Goldson,
in the Iberoamerican University of Auckland
Circulation of Battleship
Potemkin” Bernadette Luciano,
University of Auckland,
Thomas Tode, Independent “Queering the New Zealand
scholar, “The Film Distribution Screen: The Cases of The
of The Battleship Potemkin in Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
Germany – An Epic” (online) (Pooley, 2009) and Georgie
Girl (Goldson, 2002) and an
Ethics of Care”
Annie Goldson, University of L4 – Room 6 L5 – Room 8 Lucy Szemetova, University L7 – Room 13 Wolff On Composition
Auckland, “‘Duty to Care’: The Documenting Environmental Operational Images and of St Andrews, “(Re)mediated Documenting the Philosophy by Ernesto Livon-Grosman,
Making of Refuge” Violence* Poisoned Landscapes Realities Through the Béla and Politics of a Music Boston College
Chair: Lakshmi (Screening) Balázs Studio” Composer (Screening)
Chair: Paolo Villa, University of
Gwen Isaac, Massey University, Padmanabhan, Chair: Francesco Pitassio,
Sponsored by XX MAGIS Pavia-Cremona
“Women in the Wild” Northwestern University University of Udine

Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Materia Oscura by Massimo Palazzo Antonini

L3 – Room 5
Image Infrastructures:
Technical Objects and
Networks as Documentary
Ecologies
Chair: Trond Lundemo,
Stockholm University
Trond Lundemo, Stockholm
University, “Updating Our
Panoramas? Mapping Spaces YouTube’s Trophic Cascade” The Documentary and Its
through Multiple Agent Media
Networks”
Leo Hansson Nilson,
Stockholm University,
“Documenting Logistics: The (online)
Socio-Technical Milieux of
Algorithmic Images”
Sebastian Rozenberg,
Linköping University, “Visual
and Invisual Images of the City: New Materialist Cinema”
Aesthetic and Operational
Relations in Google Maps”
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Northwestern D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti
University, “Atmospheric
Violence: Slow Cinema and Introduction by: Francesco
Ecological catastrophe in All Pitassio, University of
That Breathes” Udine, and Sophia Gräfe,
Thomas Pringle, University
Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin
of Southern California,
“Streaming Capital: Use,
Misuse, and Value-Form in L6 – Room 10
Archives*
Sasha Crawford-Holland, Chair: Efrén Cuevas,
University of Chicago, Universidad de Navarra
“Harm and Repair in
Environmental Forensics” Dagmar Brunow, Linnaeus
University, “Towards
Archival Sustainability:
Michael Metzger, Mapping Urgent Threats to
Northwestern University, Audiovisual Heritage”
“Giving Voice to Matter:
Inscriptions of Violence in Miguel Errazu, Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid,
“Mining Sites and Contact
Cinemas: the 1983 Ateliers
Varan in the Mines of
Telamayu, Bolivia” (online)
18.30 - 19.15
Champagne Reception
Sponsored by , and .
Cinema Visionario/Screenings
20.00 – 22.00
Room Astra Room Eden L’occhio by Roberto Omegna
Italian Docs: Treasures from 9.5 mm Film - Pathé Baby (s.d. [1942?], 9’, eng. subs.,
Italian Film Archives (1929-1961) Centenary 1922-1923/2022- Fondo ENAM)
Bolle di sapone by Roberto 2023 Una lezione di geometria
Omegna (1932-37, 9’, eng. by Vittorio Sabel, Leonardo
subs., Archivio storico Istituto
9 ½ mm (2022, 50’) Sinisgalli (1948, 12’, eng. subs.,
Luce) Fondo ENAM)
Introduced by: Mirco Santi, Ombrellai by Francesco
Champagne Mythmaking and INEDITS President, Home Maselli (1952, 10’, eng. subs.,
Marketing Movies - Archivio Nazionale Archivio storico Istituto Luce)
Sparkling: The Story of del Film di Famiglia Venezia città moderna by
Champagne by Frank Ermanno Olmi (1958, 15’,
Mannion, Birmingham City eng. subs., CSC – Archivio
University Italian Docs: Treasures from Nazionale Cinema Impresa)
Italian Film Archives (1929-1961) La memoria del futuro by Nelo
Moderated by: Paolo Villa, Risi (1960, 13’, eng. subs., CSC
University of Pavia-Cremona Stramilano by Corrado D’Errico – Archivio Nazionale Cinema
(1929, 10’, eng. subs., Archivio Impresa)
storico Istituto Luce)
Giornate di sole by Guido Introduced by: Clément Lafite
Galanti, Renato Spinotti (1934, 10’, and Silvia Zoppis, University of
eng. subs., Cineteca del Friuli) Udine
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Room 15
Recording Sessions
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast
About All Things Documentary
Co-Producers: Ritika Animal, Vegetable, Mineral is breathing scholarship that
Kaushik (Goethe University– a new documentary studies enlivens current debates
Frankfurt), in our field. Throughout
podcast series focusing on
S. Topiary Landberg (UC the conference the
Santa Cruz) and Alisa Lebow current themes and debates producers will be recording
(University of Sussex) in the docusphere. It aims to selected presentations and
be a tool for research at all interviewing VE participants.
levels—performing a living,

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