Cinematic Traces of Things to Come
The Tenth Tel Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies
Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation
Tel Aviv, Israel, 8-11 June 2014
Sunday, 8 June 2014
Tel Aviv University
9:30-9:45
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Greetings
Zvika Serper, Dean of the Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Yaron Bloch, Head of the Department of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University
Raz Yosef, Head of the B.A. Cinema Studies Program, Tel Aviv University
9:45-12:10
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Documents of Time
Chair: Ilan Avisar (Tel Aviv University)
Philip Rosen (Brown University)
“Pale Apparitions Haunting the Very Places”: Kracauer’s Ghosts
Gertrud Koch (Freie Universität Berlin)
The Disappearance of the Past and the Appearance of the Future: Chris Marker’s Remembrance of Things to Come
Meir Wigoder (Sapir College and Tel Aviv University)
Mute Traces: Constructing Destruction in Contemporary Set-Up Photography
Michael Renov (University of Southern California)
The Staging of Testimony in Contemporary Documentary Film
12:30-14:00
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Documenting Israel
Chair: Meir Wigoder (Sapir College and Tel Aviv University)
Respondent: Yael Munk (The Open University of Israel)
Régine-Mihal Friedman (Tel Aviv University)
Between Announcements and Annunciation: On Nurith Aviv’s Besorot
Anat Zanger (Tel Aviv University)
Forgetting Jerusalem: The City , the Traces and the Images
Shmulik Duvdevani (Tel Aviv University) and Anat Dan (Tel Aviv University)
The Rust of Time: The Apparition of Memory in David Greenberg’s Sha’ar Ha’Guy
15:30-17:40
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Visualizing Trauma
Chair: Régine-Mihal Friedman (Tel Aviv University)
Respondent: Leshu Torchin (University of St. Andrews)
Kristian Feigelson (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3/IRCAV)
Visual Representations of the Gulag
Sandra Meiri (The Open University of Israel)
Cinememory: Sexualized Trauma and Coming of Age in Holocaust-Related Israeli Films
Anne Rothe (Wayne State University)
Oprah goes to Auschwitz: Televising American Trauma Culture between Holocaust Tropes and Self-Help Discourse
Julia Barbara Köhne (Humboldt University Berlin)
Trauma Cinematics: Depicting Dissociation in Precious (2009)
18:00-19:00
Mexico Building, Room 200
Special Workshop: “The Return of the Archive”
Anton Kaes (University of California, Berkeley)
Monday, 9 June 2014
Tel Aviv University
10:00-11:30
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Presence as Absence
Chair: Ohad Landesman (Tel Aviv University)
Ariel Schweitzer (Université Paris 8 and Tel Aviv University)
The Green Years: The Missing Sequence
Yael Munk (The Open University of Israel)
“And Europe Will Be Stunned…”: Yael Bartana’s Alternative History Proposition
Odeya Kohen Raz (Tel Aviv University, The Open University of Israel, and Sapir Academic College)
The Cinematic Dream as Mise-en-Abyme
10:00-11:15
Mexico Building, Room 211
Cinema Out of Bounds
Chair: Boaz Hagin (Tel Aviv University)
Erez Dvora (Tel Aviv University)
Sensing the Utopian through the Technological Sublime
Nava Dushi (Tel Aviv University)
Textual Experimentation: To See the Unseen, to Think the Unthought in Cinema
11:45-13:15
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Trauma and Temporality in Israeli Cinema
Chair: Orly Lubin (Tel Aviv University)
Respondent: Boaz Hagin (Tel Aviv University)
Nurith Gertz (The Open University of Israel and Sapir Academic College)
Between Traces of the Past and Visions of the Future
Raz Yosef (Tel Aviv University)
Resisting Genealogy: Diasporic Grief and Heterosexual Melancholia in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
Judd Ne’eman (Tel Aviv University)
“Short Cuts” et al.: Wandering Heart Movies
14:45-16:30
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Tracing Documentary Reenactments
Chair: Nitzan Ben-Shaul (Tel Aviv University)
Respondent: Raya Morag (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Sylvie Rollet (Université de Poitiers/IRCAV)
A Gestural Memory of the Disaster: Rithy Panh’s Documentary Work
Jonathan Kahana (University of California Santa Cruz)
Speech-Acts of Killing
Ohad Landesman (Tel Aviv University) and Laliv Melamed (New York University)
Documentary Reenactment and the Restaging of Historical Imagination in The Act of Killing
16:45-18:15
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Alternative Histories
Chair: Odeya Kohen Raz (Tel Aviv University, The Open University of Israel, and Sapir Academic College)
Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (HFF Konrad Wolf)
Collecting Material For The Future: Thomas Heise’s Dialogue between the Present and the Future
Shirly Bahar (New York University)
Route to Nowhere: From Spatial Absence to Cinematic Presence in Route 181
Marcy Goldberg (University of Zurich and Zurich University of the Arts)
The History Film on Trial: The Case of Grüninger’s Case
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Tel Aviv University
9:30-11:30
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Being with the Future and Causing the Event
Chair: Shai Biderman (Tel Aviv University)
Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University)
Benjamin, Chaplin and the Genius of Failure
Garnet C. Butchart (Duquesne University)
Contact without Community: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Film Philosophy
Adam Aboulafia (Tel Aviv University)
Irreducible Synthesis: Beyond the Documentary/Fiction Divide
Ruth Ronen (Tel Aviv University)
The Anticipated Truth of the Cinematic Event
9:30-11:30
Mexico Building, Room 211
Archives of the Moving Image: MA Student Workshop
Chair: Yael Munk (The Open University of Israel)
Yael Mazor (Tel Aviv University)
History Repeating? The Archive and Reenactment of History in Farocki’s Respite and Karmakar’s The Himmler Project
Yaara Ozery (Tel Aviv University)
Reenacted Specters: Phantasmatic Ethical Spaces in Shlomi Elkabetz’s Edut (Testimony)
Ido Lewit (Tel Aviv University)
The Remnant of the Kafkaesque: Orson Welles’ Adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial
Ariel Avissar (Tel Aviv University)
The Shape of Things to Come: Catastrophe and Paranoia in Contemporary American Television
11:45-13:30
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Thinking the Image: Complex Narration and Disconnected Selves
Chair: Raz Yosef (Tel Aviv University)
Nitzan Ben-Shaul (Tel Aviv University)
Optional Thinking and Change of Heart in Rashomon
Gal Raz (Tel Aviv University)
Connecting and Disconnecting Selves in Haneke’s Amour: A Neurocinematic Account
Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam)
A Different Past? Feedback Loops and Complex Narration in “The Neuro-Image”
15:00-16:45
Mexico Building, Room 206a
The Global and the Local: Placing the Past and the Future
Chair: Sandra Meiri (The Open University of Israel)
Deane Williams (Monash University, Australia)
Citizen Penn: Politics and Location in the Films of Sean Penn
Lisa M. Rabin (George Mason University)
Child Utopias and Historical Children: Mid-Century Films on Progressive Schooling, 1941-1953
Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania)
Fair Use Goes Global
17:00-18:45
Mexico Building, Room 206a
Envisioning the Future and the Past
Chair: Jérôme Bourdon (Tel Aviv University)
Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam)
On Making Memory Posthumously: The Distribution of Agency of Home Movies
John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Hidden in Plain Sight
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Third Ear Records
Special workshop at The OzenBar, Third Ear Records, 48 King George St., Tel Aviv
12:00-13:45
Screening
Edut (Testimony) / Shlomi Elkabetz, Israel, 2011
(80 minutes, English subtitles)
14:00-16:00
Ethics and Documentary Cinema
Chair: Shmulik Duvdevani (Tel Aviv University)
Daniel Dayan (CNRS/EHESS, Paris and The New School for Social Research)
Towards an Ethics of Visibility
Brian Winston (University of Lincoln)
The Post-Post Documentary: Eliminating the Director?
Leshu Torchin (University of St. Andrews)
Recovering the Witness: L’Image Manquante/The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013)
Raya Morag (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Defining Perpetrator Cinema
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We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of:
The Israel Science Foundation
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Division for Cultural and Scientific Affairs
The Research Authority, Tel Aviv University
The Minerva Institute for German History
The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics
Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
The Israeli Friends of Tel Aviv University
The Open University of Israel
The 16th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival
For additional information please contact us at: cineconf@post.tau.ac.il.
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