Call for Papers: Seeing History in Experimental Film and Media
Film and History Area at the PCA/ACA National Conference
March 31-April 3, 2010, St. Louis, Missouri
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Presenters are sought for a panel on history in experimental media, as part of the Film and History area at the PCAs.
Although experimental media is sometimes dismissed for abstracting the realities of social, cultural, and political histories, it is also particularly well suited to express the complexities—the difficulties and potential—of representing the past in the present. Experimental film and media practices are often seen as uniquely able to express critical histories; that is, experimental visual forms can question or critique conventional notions and narratives of history in ways that other visual forms perhaps cannot. This panel will consider the complex intersections of experimental film and media, history, and culture. How do we see history in experimental film and media? How is this similar to and different from seeing history elsewhere? Papers may discuss a single film/project or filmmaker/artist in focus, or explore a historical question or event across a range of texts, or examine the intersection of experimental media and history through a specific cultural or national lens.