This IN FOCUS (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies) invites proposals for essays addressing the crucial, generative, and transformative history of 16mm film as a tool of making, storing, preserving, distributing, and showing moving images and sounds. For almost 100 years, this uniquely important film format has upended and reshaped a vast realm of creative, political, governmental, sexual, educational, recreational, informational, and experimental activity. This dossier begins a conversation about the histories and impact of the 16mm film, working to catalyze a fuller understanding of this particular moving image/sound infrastructure and the many practices and expressive forms it enabled. Mapping its lasting, diverse and global impacts will be a priority of this IN FOCUS feature.
Contributions may take the form of case studies or surveys, conceptual explorations, formal/artistic examinations, or institutional and technological studies.
Dates to Note:
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If interested to contribute, please share a brief 150-word abstract or statement of interest by 31 March 2021. Send to: Haidee Wasson (haidee.wasson@concordia.ca), Professor, Film and Media Studies, Concordia University, Montreal
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Final Essays: 2500 words; Due Date: 1 January 2022
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Publication Date of the Dossier: Potentially in early 2023