| PROGRAMME | |
| THURSDAY, MAY 1 | |
| 9:45-10:15 Registration and Welcome Kane Auditorium | |
| 10:30-11:50 PARALLEL PANELS | |
| 1A – Corporeality Chair: Denis Condon Kane Auditorium | |
| Cinema, Spacetime and Event: The Emancipated Spectator in the Streaming Age | Olly Colvin |
| ‘The Body is a Stage’: Isolating the Image in Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2019) | Padraic Killeen |
| Feeling Together: The Affective We-Experiences of Asynchronous Watchalongs | Simon Hewitt |
| 1B – Films of Isolation and Difference Chair: Máiréad Casey Aras na Laoi, G.30 | |
| (Dis)figuring identity in A Woman’s Face (1941) and A Different Man (2024) | Ciara Moloney |
| The Golem of Cork: Material Vengeance in Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity (2024) | Kane Geary O’Keeffe |
| Female Isolation and Loneliness in Cellar Door | Sandra Costello |
| 12:00-13:00 SPECIAL EVENT Kane Auditorium | |
| Film, Media and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Education Round table discussion with Susan Leahy, Johnny Goodwin and Eleanor McSherry Moderator: Ciara Chambers | |
| 13:00-13:50 LUNCH BREAK (Tea/Coffee provided) Kane Auditorium | |
| 14:00-15:40 PARALLEL PANELS | |
| 2A – Theory & Practice Chair: Jennifer O’Meara Kane Auditorium | |
| A Captive Picture: Richard Billingham Ray (2015) | Kieran Cashell |
| Constructing Jacqui’s story: a combination of podcast, web-based content and online video | Peter Jameson |
| Precarity, Individuality, and the Practice-Theory Divide in Film Education | Temmuz Gürbüz |
| 2B – Remembering & Surviving Chair: Ciara Chambers Aras na Laoi, G.30 | |
| Representations of the unicorn as ‘endling’ in film and media | Rachel Gough |
| “To Heal, You Must be Seen and Heard”: Trauma Studies and Irish Famine Films | Josh Cantrell |
| On the Film Theory of Marie-Claire Ropars: The Forgotten Founder of French Film Studies | Corey Cribb |
| 15:40-16:00 BREAK | |
| 16:00-17:20 PARALLEL PANELS | |
| 3A – Filmmakers Chair: Jimmy Tianxiang Wang Kane Auditorium | |
| The Loneliness of the Amateur Filmmaker in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) | Máiréad Casey |
| Music as an antidote to social disconnection in the films of John Carney | Carlos Menéndez-Otero |
| Wong Kar Wai’s cinema: characterisation and the spectator’s gaze | Federica Gobbi |
| 3B – Emotions & Disconnections Chair: Veronica Johnson Aras na Laoi, G.30 | |
| The Lone Survivor: Isolation and Paranoia in the Postmodern Horror Film | John Kavanagh |
| “We are not supposed to want the longing, but there it is”: metamodern emotion in American television | Jennie Carlsten |
| Audience Participation of Performed Isolation with Bo Burnham’s Inside (2021) | Eilís Nolan |
| 17:30-20:00 Opening Wine Reception – AULA MAXIMA (Wine and finger food provided) | |
| 20:00 Social Gathering – Drinks and Karaoke | |
| FRIDAY, MAY 2 | |
| 9:30 Additional Registration | |
| 9:45-11:15 PARALLEL PANELS | |
| 4A – Manifesto Chair: Kane Simon Geary O’Keeffe Kane Auditorium | |
| Breaking Down Barriers: Thinking Beyond the Mainstream | Sharri Hefner |
| Subjectivity of the Multicultural Body in the Irish Film Industry through Immersive Scriptwriting | Larissa Brigatti |
| Creating from Absence: Lucia Joyce and Collaborative Film Practice | Lucy McCabe |
| 4B – Producers & Audiences Chair: Barry Monahan Aras na Laoi, G.30 | |
| Element Pictures: National production in a global context – Part 1 | Maria O’Brien |
| Element Pictures: National production in a global context – Part 2 | Anne O’Brien |
| Solitary spectatorship as an act of cultural becoming | Giacomo Leoni |
| 11:30-13:15 SPECIAL EVENT | |
| Screening: Michael Inside (Frank Berry, 2017) | |
| 13:15-14:00 LUNCH (Tea/Coffee and sandwiches Provided) | |
| 14:00-15:30 SPECIAL EVENT | |
| Interview and Q&A Session with Frank Berry | |
| 15:30-16:00 BREAK (Tea/Coffee Provided) | |
| 16:00-18:00 SPECIAL EVENT | |
| Screenings: Paradiso (1988) and Cuban Breeze (1986) Panel discussion with Colm Villa, John Stephenson and Bruce Robertson Moderator: Ciara Chambers | |
| 18:30 Conference Dinner/Gathering (Franciscan Well)* | |
| SATURDAY, MAY 3 | |
| 10:00 COFFEE | |
| 10:30-11:40 Round Table Professional Horizons (1) – Kane Auditorium | |
| 11:45-12:55 Round Table Professional Horizons (2)– Kane Auditorium | |
| 12:55 Closing Remarks | |
| Optional Walking Tour of Cork’s Old Cinemas | |
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Department of Film & Screen Media at University College Cork is delighted to be hosting the next Irish Screen Studies Seminar, on the UCC campus in May 2025.
Announcing the call for abstracts inspired by the theme of the seminar – or on tangentially related topics – for submission before March 20, 2025. Please email submissions or address queries to Barry Monahan at b.monahan@ucc.ie. Abstracts should be no more than 150 words in length, with an additional brief bio including your institutional affiliation (50 words max). You may also arrange and propose your own panel, and presentations on creative practice are welcomed.
Seminar Theme: Cinema and Loneliness
Some terms to get your imagination stirred: Social atomism, Solitary spectatorship, Solipsism, Solidarity, Single Heroes and Solo Heroines!
Ideas for consideration:
- Solitary spectatorship and the age of the digital streaming platform;
- Characters alone and/or lonely;
- Identities of/and “me”;
- Isolated national cinemas;
- Minor and peripheral cinemas;
- Themes and stories of social isolation, alienation, and separation;
- The new-millennial anti-hero/heroine;
- Representations of minorities;
- Being different: person, place, practice;
- My iPhone art – iFilmmaking – from me, by me, for me;
- Real solidarities – private and public – in virtual spaces.
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