Individual, Network, Assemblage: Creating Connections on the Global Film Festival Circuit

Film Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Analytical Problem ◽  
Global Circuit ◽  
Sales Agents

What role do individuals play in sustaining the so-called global film festival network? This article considers this question through case studies of four specialist Chinese-language film festivals in London. It argues that while the global circuit shapes the institutional appearance of these smaller events, the kinds of strategic collaborations that the organisers of the latter effect at the former – striking up connections with directors and sales agents at film markets, for example – are key ways in which global relationships and A-list events are built from the ground up. These mutually related but unstable interactions allow us to rethink the network as an assemblage of events and individuals, addressing the analytical problem of scale in film festivals studies in the process.

The rise of experimental film festivals in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Gauri Nori
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
Medium Section

Abstract This article will examine the emergence of independent platforms to screen radical and alternative cinema in India by tracing two case-studies: Experimenta, a biannual festival curated by Shai Heredia, and The New Medium section curated by Shaina Anand. While Experimenta has remained largely independent, relying on the support of established artists and cultural organizations, The New Medium section has managed to secure its place within the programme of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival (MFF). Although their approach may differ, both curators are committed to promoting a culture of moving image experimentation in the country. Drawing on first-hand observations, interviews and scrutinizing festival ephemera, this article aims to identify the curatorial practices and strategies that have established these alternative film festivals both within the international film festival network and the larger film community in the country.

Elsewhere: The Last Circus

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
Bilal Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Regional Location ◽  
True False ◽  
Falling In Love

FQ columnist Bilal Qureshi reports from his first visit to the documentary film festival True/False in Columbia, Missouri. Overcoming his initial trepidation—both at the prospect of traveling just as the coronavirus was gathering steam and at the festival's regional location—Qureshi finds himself falling in love with film festivals all over again. Yet the contact high of the collective experience provided by the festival, with its freedom to collide with films and audiences through impromptu gatherings and celebrations, takes on a heightened poignancy in this moment of COVID-19. While noting the uncertainties of the new cinematic and social order that will emerge post-COVID, Qureshi hopes that the opportunity to press reset might result in more small-scale, community-focused festivals like True/False.

Absence, Ambiguity, and Deviating Pleasure Activism: The Tokyo Rainbow Film Festival

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Qin QIN
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
A Site ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Whereas several Japanese popular magazines have published reports and interviews on LGBT film festival curators, little scholarship has shed light on Japanese LGBT film festivals. This article serves as a case study of how the festival enables the festival community—cinephiles, LGBT audiences, organized groups of activists, and indie filmmakers—to share ideas and coordinate within and outside the metropolis. I conduct a synchronic and diachronic study to sketch the historical trajectory of the festivalgoers, material spaces, festival formation, curation, and programming. In utilizing a methodological framework which includes geopolitics, gender, film, and organizational studies, this article proposes an approach that juxtaposes the classic concept of ‘counterpublics’ with the theoretical reading of affective politics and pleasure activism. The findings suggest that the Tokyo Rainbow Reel Film Festival functions as a site of discursive political stances and affective disposition. The ambiguity of the film festival space correlates closely with two factors: Japanese homophobia, or ‘the absence of LGBT’, and an unorthodox pleasure activism that does not include suffering and oppression.

scholarly journals 1st Transylvanian International Film Festival in Cluj, Romania

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Bram Stoker ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The City ◽  
Musical Accompaniment

Other first film festivals should have it so good. Every guest arriving from abroad to attend the First Transylvanian International Film Festival (3-9 June 2002) in the Romanian city of Cluj (formerly Klausenburg) asked the same question: "Where's Dracula's castle, and how can I get there?" To which Tudor Giurgiu, the festival's founder-director, responded with an same amused grin: "Stay around until closing night: we're screening Murnau's Nosferatu to musical accompaniment!" Just another way of saying that no less than four castles lay claim to Dracula's hideout. "Probably Bram Stoker meant the castle in Sighisoara (formerly Schässburg)," said one informed source. "Schässburg is a 13th-century museum town, only an hour's drive away."Forget Dracula's castle on your first visit to Cluj-Napoca, inhabited by the Dacians in ancient times and founded by the Romans in the 2nd century. The city with the most moviegoers in Romania, Cluj (formerly part of Austria-Hungary) has academies...

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document