[spectre] Call for Papers & Videoessays: Besides the Screen Ningbo 2025 (due Feb 10)

[Gabriel Menotti]

**CFP: Besides the Screen Ningbo 2025: Collaboration, Co-Production &
Translation**
University of Nottingham Ningbo China, June 5-7, 2025

- Deadline for submissions February 10, 2025
- Apply at https://forms.office.com/r/CEM9ccg8Mh

The Besides the Screen network seeks to examine the continuing
transformation of audiovisual practices by focusing on its underlying
objects, processes and materials. For fifteen years, the network has put
together more than a dozen publications and events addressing subjects such
as infrastructures of distribution, marketing and promotion, archives,
curating, volumetric imaging, and algorithmic filmmaking.

In 2025, the Besides the Screen conference returns to the city of Ningbo to
survey the state of the media, culture and creative industries field, while
exploring the various ways in which agency is distributed and negotiated
across borders – whether institutional, spatial, linguistic, or
technological. Cinema, a quintessentially modern art form, has been
cooperative from the outset. The industrial nature of filmmaking has often
required not only a vast workforce but also an unprecedented combination of
expertise, much of which has been embedded in the devices of media
production. The increasingly complex economy of the moving image has
expanded the scope of these collaborations both territorially and
technologically. On the one hand, initiatives like transnational
co-production agreements aim to uproot the geopolitics of filmmaking by
optimizing access to resources, funding, markets, and talent. On the other,
systems such as virtual environments and AI agents promises to wrap all
forms of media labour and expression around them.

With these phenomena in mind, this conference seeks to address questions
such as:

- How are these new collaborative arrangements reshaping the limits of
audiovisual practices and circulation?
- What enables the translation across the multiple cultures, systems, and
intelligences that audiovisual media bring together?
- What new artforms may emerge or diverge from their operation?

Related research areas include:

- Cultural and Creative Industries
- Film, TV, and Screen Studies
- Game Studies
- Digital Humanities and Emerging Technologies
- New media, contemporary, and performance arts

The conference is open to both short papers and films/video essays (up to
20 minutes). Submissions should be made through the online form available
at besidesthescreen.com.

Paper proposals require title, 3-5 keywords, abstract (300 words max), and
a short author affiliation/bio (200 words max). Short film/video essays
proposals require title, link (with password if required), 3-5 keywords,
synopsis or artist statement (300 words max), and a short author
affiliation/bio (200 words max)

**Submission deadline: Feb 10, 2025.* *We will accept submissions up to
midnight in the proponent’s time zone. Selected participants will be
notified at the beginning of March.

If you experience any issues with the submission form, please email
besidesthescreen at gmail.com with the email header **NINGBO25 –Submission
issue**. Please note: email submissions will not be accepted.

Besides the Screen Ningbo 2025 is organized by Dr. Corey Schultz (UNNC),
Dr. Virginia Crisp (King’s College London), and Dr. Gabriel Menotti
(Queen’s University). The conference is funded by the University of
Nottingham Ningbo China’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Conference and
Event Organising Support Scheme.
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