Childhood and Nation in World Cinema

Please see below information about two films about childhood as part of the Catalan Cinema Season at London's ICA (courtesy of Maria Delgado):

The Catalan Cinema Now! season at the ICA presents two films about childhood written by Clara Roquet. Libertad, first seen in Cannes in 2021 (Saturday 14 May 18.15pm) is Roquet’s directorial debut, a coming of age tale set during a summer of change on the Catalan coast where nothing is quite what it first appears.
Costa Brava, Lebanon, is Mounia Akia’s smart, funny debut, offering a portrait of a family facing an unexpected challenge to their rural idyll in Lebanon. The film screens on Sunday 15 May at 18.15pm

Further details available here:

https://www.ica.art/films/intersections-catalan-cinema-now

ICA | Intersections: Catalan Cinema Now!

A pesar de que este año no lo hemos podido disfrutar como nos hubiera gustado, el 18 de mayo no puede no celebrarse. De modo que rescatamos nuestro número 32 "El cine en el espacio del arte", en el que hablamos sobre esta fructífera comunicación entre disciplinas y de la belleza de dicha fusión, así como de los artefactos que la hacen posible y los espacios expositivos.

https://revistas.uam.es/secuencias/issue/view/452

This week on campus, join two inaugural lectures from Professor Simon Blockley for and Professor Emily Jeremiah on poetry translation, enjoy our first BTHVN2020 event with Simon Watterton (piano), or join a talk on one of Luke Fildes’ paintings in the Picture Gallery. View our events: https://bit.ly/2OUsDhM

SMLLC Video Competition. This video is about My Movie

Screening of the film we made in conjunction with sixth formers at Strode's College as part of the Cinéma cent ans de jeunesse programme. With Stephi Donald Sebastian Secker Walker

CALAIS CHILDREN – A CASE TO ANSWER

Great to see that this film is almost finished (final fundraiser) Sue Clayton www.calais.gebnet.co.uk.

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Timeline Photos

Childhood and Nation in World Cinema

We are working with students at Strodes College in Egham as part of the BFI’s Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse programme, a young person’s filmmaking project that began at the Cinémathèque Française in 1995.

We spoke to Mark Reid, the BFI’s Head of Education Programmes, about what the project involves, and why cinema is an important part of a child’s education. Check out the video! https://vimeo.com/202609172

Cinema: 100 Years of Youth

We are working with students at Strodes College in Egham as part of the BFI’s Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse programme, a young person’s filmmaking project that began at the Cinémathèque Française in 1995.

We spoke to Mark Reid, the BFI’s Head of Education Programmes, about what the project involves, and why cinema is an important part of a child’s education. Check out the video! https://vimeo.com/202609172

vimeo.com This is "Cinema: 100 Years of Youth" by Child Nation Cinema on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Playful Memories - The Autofictional Turn in | Jordana Blejmar | Palgrave Macmillan

We are excited to announce Jordana Bleimar's new book Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina. Dr Blejmar's book is a multimedia and interdisciplinary study of the use of autofiction, black humour, parody and playful memories exercised by the post-dictatorship generation in Argentina. For a 20% discount quote the code PM17TWENTY: https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319409634

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To celebrate the English translation of Alain Bergala’s The Cinema Hypothesis, the BFI are hosting a discussion event on Friday 03 February 2017, 2-5pm, at BFI Southbank.
Join Alain Bergala, Professors Andrew Burn (UCL Institute of Education) and Katren Lury (Glasgow University), and Alejandro Bachmann (Austrian Film Museum) to discuss the English translation of Alain Bergala’s L’Hypothèse Cinéma. First published in 2003, The Cinema Hypothesis is at once an outline of a philosophy of film education, a memoir of a ‘childhood in cinema’, a cultural history of film policy in France, and a practical guide to engaging young people in cinema.
Join the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cinema-hypothesis-alain-bergala-symposium-tickets-30924644444

Buy tickets for From Child Star to Transnational Film Director: A Retrospective of the work of Iciar Bollain: an A Level Spanish Study Day | BFI Southbank

A reminder for teachers! We are leading an A Level study day on child star and director, Iciar Bollain, at the BFI Southbank on Friday 20 January 2017.
Icíar Bollaín’s film, También la lluvia, is a set text in the new A Level specifications and will feature in depth during this event, including an afternoon screening and discussion around this politically devoted work. Book via the BFI website: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=fromchildstartotransnationalfilmdirectoralevel&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id

whatson.bfi.org.uk This study day, supported financially by the Leverhulme Trust, is a unique and ideal introduction to the child-star cm director, Icíar Bollaín, whose film, También la lluvia, is a set text in the new A Level specifications and will feature in depth during this event. The morning session will explor...

Buy tickets for From Child Star to Transnational Film Director: A Retrospective of the work of Iciar Bollain: an A Level Spanish Study Day | BFI Southbank

Join us for an A Level study day on child star and director, Icíar Bollaín, at the BFI on 20 January 2017.
Icíar Bollaín’s film, También la lluvia, is a set text in the new A Level specifications and will feature in depth during this study day aimed at students and teachers, including an afternoon screening and discussion around this politically devoted work.
Book via the BFI website: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=fromchildstartotransnationalfilmdirectoralevel&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id

whatson.bfi.org.uk This study day, supported financially by the Leverhulme Trust, is a unique and ideal introduction to the child-star cm director, Icíar Bollaín, whose film, También la lluvia, is a set text in the new A Level specifications and will feature in depth during this event. The morning session will explor...

We are delighted to announce that our edited book, Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema: Borders and Encounters will be published in September 2017! Pre-order a copy today http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/childhood-and-nation-in-contemporary-world-cinema-9781501318597/

Abbas Kiarostami, 1940-2016 | Obituary | Sight & Sound

bfi.org.uk The filmmaker, artist and photographer Abbas Kiarostami, who has died following a series of operations for gastrointestinal cancer, singlehandedly put Iran on the map of world cinema.

Childhood and Nation in World Cinema

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Listen to our great speakers at ‘Childhood and Nation in World Cinema: Borders and Encounters since 1980’

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Keynote: Professor Daniela Berghahn (Royal Holloway) – The Child As Victim and Creator of Postnational Affiliations in Diasporic European Cinema

Keynote: Professor Karen Lury (University of Glasgow) – Children, objects and motion… balloons, bikes, kites and tethered flight

Keynote: Professor David Martin Jones (University of Glasgow) – Telling the Story of History with (to, or by) the Child: Non-National, National, and Transnational Takes

“Films from Le Cinema Cent Ans de Jeunesse, an international film education programme” with Mark Reid (BFI), chaired by Stephi Hemelryk Donald

“Engaging Young People with Difficult Pasts through Film”, with Paul Cooke and respondent Kelly Royds

Screening of Little Soldier followed by Q and A with director, Stella Corradi, and producer, Carol-Mei Barker, chaired by Emma Wilson

Childhood and Nation in World Cinema

Review on our conference by Dr Fiona Noble published in Spanish Cinephilia.

Childhood and Nation in World Cinemas Conference (Royal Holloway, University of London, April 2016)

Review on our conference by Dr Fiona Noble published in Spanish Cinephilia.

spanishcinephilia.wordpress.com I’m currently sitting in departures at Heathrow Terminal 5 having spent the last few days at Royal Holloway, University of London attending the Childhood and Nation in World Cinemas: B…

Thank you to everyone who attended our conference at Royal Holloway - we were thrilled to see you all and thank you so much for your contributions

Lovely to see delegates and speakers arriving for the conference - looking forward to tomorrow!

Childhood and Nation in World Cinema

Look at our programme for some unmissable papers on childhood and cinema!

http://childnationcinema.org/events/international-conference/

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Please note: due to road works taking place, road access to Royal Holloway conference will be via the Piggy Gate on the A30!

Look at our programme for some unmissable papers on childhood and cinema!

http://childnationcinema.org/events/international-conference/

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Childhood and Nation in World Cinema

Only a few days left to register for the international conference Childhood and Nation in World Cinema!

Childhood and Nation in World Cinema
Borders and Encounters Since 1980
Conference of the Leverhulme Funded International Network

18th – 19th April 2016, Royal Holloway, University of London

Figuring filmic representations of the child is an important recent trend in cinema studies. Adult cultural investments in the child are acknowledged whilst the most exciting work simultaneously pushes at the boundaries of film theory to create a new cinematic politics of childhood in filmic portrayals of the child’s experience.

This conference aims to take forward children’s perceptions of, and involvement in, screen representation. At the same time, it acknowledges the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood in adult cultural and social consciousness, as it is explored through film. Given the current debates over national film studies, and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, our aim is not to assume some pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, we wish to observe how, why and indeed whether the cinematic child is aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the state, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts. World cinema is understood not as a commercial label but as a discursive site for the mapping and remapping of local, national and transnational understandings of both child and nation and for the exploration of themes of belonging, encounter and experience as well as agency and representation. Cinema may include home video, participatory video and found footage as well as commercial cinema whatever its distribution strategy. Scholars will examine the structures of national feeling in places of production and distribution, and the manner in which the child is deployed to maintain, reflect or interrogate these structures. The category of childhood is itself in slippage across classes, ethnicities and regions whilst the complex relations between national borders, language and political cultures are likely to produce conflicted representations of the national subject, all of which require politically and culturally informed and nuanced readings of the filmic text.

Confirmed keynote speakers
• Professor Karen Lury (Glasgow)
• Professor David Martin-Jones (Glasgow)
• Professor Annette Kuhn

Network partners
• Dr Sarah Wright (Principal Investigator, RHUL)
• Professor Stephi Hemelryk-Donald (UNSW and Liverpool),
• Professor Emma Wilson (Cambridge)
• Dr Zitong Qiu (Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University).

Registration (until March 31):
http://onlinestore.rhul.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=683

More info
http://childnationcinema.org/
Any questions or queries can be sent to [email protected] or on twitter:

Only a few days left to register for the international conference Childhood and Nation in World Cinema!

Childhood and Nation in World Cinema
Borders and Encounters Since 1980
Conference of the Leverhulme Funded International Network

18th – 19th April 2016, Royal Holloway, University of London

Figuring filmic representations of the child is an important recent trend in cinema studies. Adult cultural investments in the child are acknowledged whilst the most exciting work simultaneously pushes at the boundaries of film theory to create a new cinematic politics of childhood in filmic portrayals of the child’s experience.

This conference aims to take forward children’s perceptions of, and involvement in, screen representation. At the same time, it acknowledges the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood in adult cultural and social consciousness, as it is explored through film. Given the current debates over national film studies, and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, our aim is not to assume some pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, we wish to observe how, why and indeed whether the cinematic child is aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the state, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts. World cinema is understood not as a commercial label but as a discursive site for the mapping and remapping of local, national and transnational understandings of both child and nation and for the exploration of themes of belonging, encounter and experience as well as agency and representation. Cinema may include home video, participatory video and found footage as well as commercial cinema whatever its distribution strategy. Scholars will examine the structures of national feeling in places of production and distribution, and the manner in which the child is deployed to maintain, reflect or interrogate these structures. The category of childhood is itself in slippage across classes, ethnicities and regions whilst the complex relations between national borders, language and political cultures are likely to produce conflicted representations of the national subject, all of which require politically and culturally informed and nuanced readings of the filmic text.

Confirmed keynote speakers
• Professor Karen Lury (Glasgow)
• Professor David Martin-Jones (Glasgow)
• Professor Annette Kuhn

Network partners
• Dr Sarah Wright (Principal Investigator, RHUL)
• Professor Stephi Hemelryk-Donald (UNSW and Liverpool),
• Professor Emma Wilson (Cambridge)
• Dr Zitong Qiu (Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University).

Registration (until March 31):
http://onlinestore.rhul.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=683

More info
http://childnationcinema.org/
Any questions or queries can be sent to [email protected] or on twitter:

Thank you, Dr Erin K. Hogan, for a fascinating talk: "The Ventriloquism of Altar Boys in Spanish Cinema from Joselito in The Little Nightingale (del Amo 1956) to Ignacio in Bad Education (Almodóvar 2004)", Royal Holloway (University of London) 16/03/2016.

Childhood and Nation in World Cinema

Our final International Conference will be held at Royal Holloway (University of London). Please note the deadline for registration is Thursday 31st March at 12:00.

Our final International Conference will be held at Royal Holloway (University of London). Please note the deadline for registration is Thursday 31st March at 12:00.

International Conference - Royal Holloway, University of London - Childhood and Nation in World...

'Childhood and Nation in World Cinema' conference schedule is now available here:
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