Call for Papers

Scheduled to be held at the Indiana University campus Bloomington, IN, Sept 14-16 2007.

Film Indiana will combine keynote lectures and refereed presentations with screenings of material from the various archives at Indiana University, including the David Bradley Collection, the Lilly Library, the Kinsey Institute, the Black Film Center/Archive, and the extensive educational and instructional film collection.

The theme for the first Film Indiana conference is short films produced within and—particularly--beyond (or before or outside of) the Hollywood tradition, from prize properties to long-neglected orphans. Comedies, travelogues, science films, studio shorts, home movies, cartoons, amateur film, instructionals, newsreels, advertising films, erotica, and experimental films—these and other varieties of the short film constitute an extraordinarily rich and often overlooked aspect of cinema. What makes such films interesting, aesthetically and ideologically?  Who funded, distributed, and exhibited shorts? How does the production, circulation, and reception of shorts figure in the history of cinema, broadly understood?

Keynote speakers: Tom Gunning and Haidee Wasson

Please send a 200-word proposal to arrive before June 29, 2007. Joint submissions of up to four speakers forming a panel are also welcome.

Joan Hawkins
Indiana University
Dept of Communication and Culture
Mottier Hall
1790 E 10th St
Bloomington, IN 47405

Please mark envelope “Conference 2007.”

E-mail inquiries should be addressed to filmindi@indiana.edu. Please include “Conference 2007” in the subject line