The 2020 Carleton Film Studies Graduate Student Colloquium will be held Friday March 6th– Saturday March 7th, 2020
Keynote Address by Dr. Susan Lord (Queen’s University)
FRIDAY, MARCH 6th | 5PM (ST. PATRICK’S BUILDING, ROOM 100)
“From Archive to Repertoire: Remediating Afro-descendant Havana”
Each generation of media artists broadly defined builds their practice through a repertoire: conversations across borders and generations deepen with each new work; processes of remediation, archive fevers, and “practices of the self” develop nuance. But what happens when a big part of the repertoire is lost to you? When your archive is in a national building you can’t access? When racialized economies are forbidding? When diasporas and displacements separate the person from their archive? Or when the media materiality has decayed to the point of no longer being because it was never cared for by the memory institutions of the nation? When IP, patrimony and other forms of control over the history of place and belonging create blockages against access and critical and/or loving conversations with the past?
Responding to some of these questions, I will draw a map of archival fragments that connect various media employed by Afro-descendant Cubans to facilitate their appearance in visual culture of the city of Havana: from 1960s films to 1990s and 2000s graffiti, rap and music videos, to “independent” media by makers like Gloria Rolando, and artists like Juan Carlos Alóm. Rather than presenting an exhaustive “collection” of Afro-descendent cultural production, I want to think about what kind of archive is possible given the material condition and disappearances, the fragmentary nature and secreted images, the fetishism of “ruin” and “decay” vs the micology and poverty of abandonment.
Graduate Student Colloquium
SATURDAY, MARCH 7th (ST. PATRICK’S BUILDING, ROOM 435)
10:00-11:30
The Powers of Gaze and Representation (Chaired by Sneha Kumar)
Lia Tarachansky (York University)“The Settler-Colonial Gaze”
Myles Sauer (Carleton University)“Monsters Are Real: Symbolism and Aesthetics in the Contemporary Godzilla Film”
Gigi Wong (Carleton University) “Coming of Age: Cinematic Representations of Femininity in Adolescence, Midlife and Senility in Suzhou River, 20 30 40 andThe Postmodern Life of my Aunt”
1:00-2:50
Preserving and Presenting Films: Age, Nationality and Sexuality (Chaired by Scott Smart)
Ecem Yildirim (Concordia University) “Producing Global Art Cinema: The Case of the International Istanbul Film Festival’s Coproduction Market Meetings on the Bridge”
Michael Marlatt (York University) “The Benefits of Student Participation in the Media Archive”
Antoine Damiens (McGill University)“Curating Gay Film Studies: 1970s Committed Scholars/Critics and Ephemeral Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals”
Reza Yavarian (Université de Montréal) “Naser-addin Shah: Actor-e-Cinema: Film Archive and Allegory”
3:05-4:35
Media Platforms for Creating Community and Alienation (Chaired by Kyle Constantine-Rogers)
Jake Pitre (Concordia University) “Don’t Let This Flop: The Memed Architectures of Platform Capitalism on TikTok”
Yiwen Song (Carleton University) “Deconstructing the Hierarchy of Values through Informal Localization: Studying the Audience Reception of Downton Abbeyin China”
Laurent Pineault (Université de Montréal) “Audiovisual Humiliation Apparatuses: The Example of Police Brutality Videos”