SCREEN 50TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS PROGRAMME (2008.11.7, London)

SCREEN 50TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS PROGRAMME

Launch Event, Tate Modern, London, Friday 7th November 2008

Screen, one of the leading international journals in the study of film and television, has been engaging in debates about film culture for fifty years. To celebrate the anniversary, this special event features a rare screening of Sigmund Freud’s Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity, followed by a discussion with Alison Butler, John Caughie, Annette Kuhn, Mark Nash and Claire Pajaczkowska.

In the 1970s and into the 1980s, Screen, along with its well-known interventions in film theory, presented an ongoing dialogue with practicing filmmakers from both the visual art avant-garde and the radical wing of the then embryonic independent filmmaking sector. This discourse between the worlds of art and film involved debates with the group around Block, including the art historian TJ Clark, and with artists such as Mary Kelly. The engagement with practice appeared in the journal in work on, for example Peter Wollen & Laura Mulvey, Peter Gidal, Sally Potter, and Cinema Action, but it also included conferences and a number of weekend schools. Practicing filmmakers like Martine Attille and Isaac Julien became members of the Screen editorial board, and Screen board members were active in the Independent Filmmakers’ Association.

Sigmund Freud’s Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity (USA 1979, 40 mins) was directed by Anthony McCall, Claire Pajaczkowska, Andrew Tyndall, and Jane Weinstock. Using inserts of television ads and pornographic films to interrogate woman’s status as the object of desire, it sets up a complex relationship between image, sound and text. Female lips in close-up recount a conversation concerning psychoanalysis, as we see a series of dates and events for 1882 to 1905, from the birth of Dora to the publication of Freud’s case history of her. Four dialogues between Freud and Dora follow.
This event is intended to re-establish some of Screen’s original connections, with a debate about current and future directions both in the theory and practice of moving image work. The discussion will consider the lines of communication between film/video theory, film/video practice and art/gallery practice.

The discussion will be followed by a drinks reception hosted by Screen.

If you would like to attend, please book tickets online here <http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/16142.htm> .

There are a number of other events celebrating the anniversary running throughout 2008-9.

6 February 2009          Sound Design and Cinema ˆ University of Edinburgh

20 March 2009            The TV Classic ˆ University of Warwick

26-27 March 2009       Animation and Automation ­ˆ Universities of Manchester and Lancaster

March 2009                 Special 50th Anniversary issue of Screen

1 May 2009                 Béla Balázs Symposium  <http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences-workshops/the-screen-anniversary-bela-balazs-symposium.html> ˆ Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London

June 2009                    Screen event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

3-5 July 2009               50th Anniversary Screen Studies Conference ˆ University of Glasgow

10-12 July 2009           Colour and the Moving Image:  <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_71353_en.pdf> History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive ˆ University of Bristol

15 August-                   50 Years of Screen: a display in the Bodleian Library, Oxford University
5 September 2009

For updates on these and other events, visit: www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk/50thanniversary <http://www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk/50thanniversary>

Caroline Beven – production editor
Heather Middleton – administrative assistant

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