The Steve Tisch School
of Film and Television
The Yolanda and David Katz
Faculty of the Arts
Tel Aviv University

The Eleventh Tel Aviv International Colloquium
on Cinema and Television Studies

Strangers to Ourselves:
“Enemies from Within”
and the Moving Image

Detail from Eadweard Muybridge / The Human Figure in Motion, 1907

Tel Aviv, Israel, 7-9 June 2016
 
All panels will take place at the Mexico Building, the Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University.

Tuesday, 7 June 2016  
9:00
Gathering and Registration
9:30-12:00 | Room 206a
Greetings
Zvika Serper Dean of the Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Yaron Bloch Head of the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University
Raz Yosef Head of the B.A. Cinema Studies Program, the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University
European Unions: Friends and Foes in Society
Chair: Odeya Kohen Raz
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Queen Mary University of London Blaming It All on the Germans: How Postwar European Cinemas Disavowed Complicity in War Guilt
Thomas Elsaesser University of Amsterdam Post-Heroic Europe: The Abject between the Subject and the Common
Kristian Feigelson Sorbonne-Nouvelle Cold War Soviet Cinema (1956-1962)
12:00–14:00
Lunch
14:00-16:00 | Room 206a
Local and Foreign Agents: Cinema and the Limits of the National
Chair: Sandra Meiri
Deane Williams Monash University The Cinema Within: Transnational and National Concerns of “Utilitarian Filmmaking” in Australia 1945 – 1980
Lawrence Baron San Diego State University The Glocal Enemy Within: Neo-Nazi Skinheads in Transnational Cinema
Philip Rosen Brown University Diaspora as Movement, Historicity as Movement, Historicity as Diaspora: On the Cinema of Med Hondo
16:30-18:15 | Room 206a
“We have met the enemy and he is us”
Chair: Raz Yosef
Idit Alphandary Tel Aviv University Forgiveness and Resentment: Past Memories and Future Loves
Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann Hebrew University Blurred Enemy Lines: False Identities, Imitation and Reconstruction in Phoenix (2014) and Black Book (2006)
Inbar Shaham Open University The Strange Case of the Narrating Antagonist
16:30-18:15 | Room 212
Home and Away
Chair: Miri Talmon
Asher Salah Bezalel Academy A Forgotten Italian Neorealist Movie or a Zionist Docudrama? The Earth Cries Out (1948) by Duilio Coletti
Boaz Hagin Tel Aviv University With Friends Like These: Melville Shavelson in the Holy Land
Ori Levin Tel Aviv University Chaplin as Pariah and the Affectivity of Universality
Chris Broodryk University of Pretoria Strangers and Allies in Afrikaans Multicultural Filmmaking: Cultural Conservatism in Post-Apartheid Filmmaking
18:30-19:15 | Room 206a
Plenary Lecture
Chair: Nitzan Ben-Shaul
Noël Carroll City University of New York Movies and Emotions: Positive and Negative
 
Wednesday, 8 June 2016  
9:00
Gathering
09:30-11:30 | Room 206a
Probing the Limits of Documentary
Chair: Shai Biderman
Michael Renov University of Southern California David Perlov's Diary 1973-1983 : Essaying the Diary Film
Ohad Landesman Tel Aviv University Sunday in the Park: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm and the Filmic Mechanism of a Self-Defeating Documentary
Gertrud Koch Freie Universität Berlin The Border of Life and Fiction: Madagascar, Nisko, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz – Claude Lanzmann’s Le dernier des injustes (The Last of the Unjust)
11:45-12:30 | Room 206a
Plenary Lecture
Chair: Raya Morag
Dina Iordanova University of St Andrews Wanted Images, Unwanted Bodies: Circuitous Memory and “Gypsy” Representations in Film
12:30–14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:15 | Room 206a
Evil Minds: Framing Cinema and the Brain
Chair: Boaz Hagin
András Bálint Kovács Eötvös Loránd University Seeing from Close, Seeing from Far: How the Brain Processes Shot Scales
Gal Raz, Tal Gonen and Ofir Shany Tel Aviv University and the Tel Aviv Center for Brain Functions
Egodystonic Cinematic Empathy and the Banality of Evil
Aija Laura Zivitere Information Systems Management Institute, Riga “Strangers to Ourselves”: Chernobyl, the New Wounded and the Moving Image
16:30-18:30 | Room 206a
Trauma’s Others: Recognition, Love, and Female Testimony
Chair: Ilan Avisar
Daniel Dayan CNRS/EHESS Visible Witness: Watching the Footprints of Trauma
Raya Morag Hebrew University New Cambodian Cinema and the Enemy Within
Nava Dushi Tel Aviv University and Lynn University  and  Igor Rodin Hebrew University Amour and Love: On the Invention of the Concept of Love in Cinema
Sandra Meiri Open University  and 
Odeya Kohen Raz Sapir Academic College, Open University and Tel Aviv University Dream, Guilt, Trauma, and Historical Representation
 
Thursday, 9 June 2016  
9:00
Gathering
9:30-11:30 | Room 206a
The Arab, the Jew – Rethinking the “Enemy”
Chair: Gal Raz
Yael Munk Open University Fauda: The Israeli Occupation on Prime Time or Ways to Re-think the Enemy
Shmulik Duvdevani Tel Aviv University Invisible Neighbors: Docu-accountability in A Grenade in Gaza
Raz Yosef Tel Aviv University  and  Yaara Ozery Tel Aviv University The Arab, the Jew, and the Arab Jew: Documentary Reenactment in Shlomi Elkabetz's Testimony
12:00-13:30 | 206a
Special Session of the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television Departmental Seminar

What Makes a Film Jewish?

Moderators:
Lawrence Baron San Diego State University
Ilan Avisar Tel Aviv University

13:30–15:15
Lunch
15:15-17:00 | Room 206a
Remembering Chantal Akerman
Chair: Yael Munk
Régine-Mihal Friedman Tel Aviv University Chantal Akerman: “La passion de l'intimité” or “Intimate Passion”
Anat Zanger Tel Aviv University Chantal Akerman's Postmemory between the Then and the Now
Plenary Lecture
Giuliana Bruno Harvard University Psychic Passages: On Chantal Akerman’s Screens, from Cinema to the Art Gallery
17:15-19:15 | Room 206a
Occupations of the Visible: Representing Terror, Anxiety, and Guilt
Chair: Judd Ne’eman
Nitzan Ben Shaul Tel Aviv University  and  Michal Pick Hamo Tel Aviv University Siege Mentality and Dissociation in Contemporary Israeli Films
Miri Talmon Tel Aviv University Home, Homeland, Security: Converging Paranoia and Doubling Anxieties in the Israeli TV drama series Kfulim
Neta Alexander New York University Perpetual Violence: The Home as Battlefield in Contemporary Israeli Cinema


For additional information on Strangers to Ourselves: “Enemies from Within” and the Moving Image, the Eleventh Tel Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies, please contact us at: cineconf@post.tau.ac.il.