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International Conference
THE LEFT CONFERENCE - PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM CRITICISM
Lisbon
9 and 10 November 2018 November 16-17-18, 2017

Languages
English

International Conference
THE LEFT CONFERENCE – PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM CRITICISM

Since the late nineteenth century, the printed photograph in the media stood as a powerful tool for denouncing social injustice and claiming better life conditions – i.e. as seen in the work of Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, or Joshua Benoliel, among many others. In the early decades of the twentieth century the use of images

had a significant boost with film, when directors such as Flaherty, Eisenstein, John Grierson, Vertov, Dvorjenko or Ivens, combining documental intentions with avant-garde experimental claims, made possible to discuss political and historical conditions. The aim of the conference is to discuss and debate photographs and film as a social tool from a leftist stance. In particular, to examine and explore the relation of documentary practices and political commitment in different historical circumstances throughout the twentieth and the twenty first centuries. The seminar/conference together with a film projection program will take place at Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon on November 16-18 2017. Keynote speakers
Gail Day (University of Leeds)
Steve Edwards (Birbeck College)

Conference Venue & Dates
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon
Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon.

22/09/2019

Entrada Livre!

10/11/2018

Lagoa Henriques auditorium
Keynote Speaker David Bate "The Refugee Image"

10/11/2018

Panel 10

Justin Carville "Topographies of Terror, Terrain Vague and the Blind Field in Post-Celtic Tiger Photography"

10/11/2018

Panel 10

Meghan Bissonnette "David T. Hanson’s Waste Land Series"

10/11/2018

Panel 8 – Lagoa Henriques auditorium

Matthew Mason Mythologies of Mao(ism): Depictions of China and the ‘Cultural Revolution’
in European Cinema at the Dawn of Postmodernity (1967 – 1972) – Godard, Bellochio,
Antonioni

Susana Mouzinho Experiments in cinema and militant video: the beginnings of a theory

Julia Okołowicz The Lens of Oppression: "A Pair of Glasses" by Anna Maria Ortese and
Carlo Damasco

10/11/2018

Panel 7 – Room 3.61

David Gledhill Seeing Clearly: The politics of focus in photo-‐derived contemporary painting

Gillian Sneed Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Anna Maria Maiolino’s Films and Photo-Performances during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship of the 1970s

09/11/2018

Revista Aniki / Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image

09/11/2018

Main auditorium:
Bragança de Miranda (Keynote speaker): Cinema and geo-aesthetics: for a kind of cinema politics

09/11/2018

Panel 4 - Room 3.61

Gustavo Racy "The Photographer as Producer: on the possibilities of photography after Walter Benjamin"

09/11/2018

Panel 5 – Main Auditorium

Ying Sze Pek "Farocki/Stereyerl: the Documentary of Algorithmic Realism"

09/11/2018

Panel 5 - Main auditorium

Paul Lowe "Picturing the predator: subverting the militarisation of vision"

Endereço

Largo Da Academia Nacional De Belas Artes, 14
Lisbon
1249-058

Website

https://photographyandtheleft.wordpress.com/

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