International workshop organized within the project:
Book launches
During the international workshop entitled Uncanny Intermediality we launched two recent books written by members of our research project, Király Hajnal and Judit Pieldner. (Hajnal Király: The Cinema of Manoel de Oliveira: Modernity, Intermediality and the Uncanny, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Judit Pieldner: Adaptation, Remediation and Intermediality: Forms of In-betweenness in Cinema, Editura Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2020.)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE organized within the research project:
Participation in international conferences
Studies in Eastern European Cinemas Conference: Eastern European Screen- and Other Media,
16-17 June 2022. Organized by the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema and the University of Central Lancashire.
Presentations:
- Ágnes Pethő (keynote speaker): The Past is a Ready-Made? Rethinking Collage Effect, Affect and Intermediality in the Films of Radu Jude and Sergei Loznitsa.
- Hajnal Király: Autonomy, Victimisation and Social Media in Contemporary Hungarian and Romanian Cinema.
The NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference. Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network. Bucharest (Romania), 22-26. 06. 2022.
The conference programme can be accessed here. The team proposed and presented a panel promoting the research project entitled: Affective Intermediality. Cinema between Media, Sensation, and Reality, and disseminated early results of the project. In addition, one member also presented a paper in the panel, Film History beyond the Limelight: Cineclub Culture in Romania. Institutions, Visual Formats and Curatorial Practices.
Papers presented at this conference:
- Ágnes Pethő: Intermediality, Affect and Performativity in the Collage Films of Radu Jude
- Judit Pieldner: In between the Epistemic and the Affective. Michael Haneke: Time of the Wolf
- Katalin Sándor: Picturesque, Affective, and Political. Cinematic Landscape in Valeska Grisebach’s Western (2017)
- Hajnal Király: Living the Films: Dramatization, Reenactment and Intermediality as Scene of Professional Sensitivity Training
- Melinda Blos-Jáni: The Small Gauge Film between Leisure and Science. Notes on the Romanian Amateur Cineclub Movement
The 'Little Apparatus." 100 Years of 9,5 mm Film. International conference hosted online by the Department of Film Studies and the Centre For International Film Research at the University of Southampton (UK), 16-18. 06. 2022.
Paper presented at this conference:
- Melinda Blos-Jáni: Negotiating Media Specificity. Three Amateur Filmmakers in Transylvania from the Interwar Period
Visible Evidence: Images of History. University of Gdansk (Poland), 10-14. 08. 2022. Full programme of the conference can be accessed here.
Paper presented at this conference:
- Kamilla Simor: Colour as a Temporal Layer: the Problem of Colourizing, Transforming and Digitally Rearranging Archival Footage from the Spanish Civil War.
6th International Society for Intermedial Studies Conference. In Between and Across: New Directions, Mappings and Contact Zones. Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin (Ireland), 1-3. 09. 2022. The full programme of the conference can be accessed here.
We proposed a preconstituted panel with the title Cinema's Affective Intermediality, and presented the following papers:
- Ágnes Pethő: Towards an Affective Turn in Intermediality Studies
- Judit Pieldner: Towards the Other (Arts). Affective Intermediality in Sally Potter's Films
- Melinda Blos-Jáni: From Picturesque Landscapes to Haptic Sensations. Documentaries about the Danube Delta.
UNCANNY INTERMEDIALITY INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP. Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania - Centre for Cinematic Intermediality and Visual Culture, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 20-21 October 2022.
Presentations at this workshop:
- Ágnes Pethő: The Uncanniness of Intermediality
- Judit Pieldner: Intermedial Transgressions into the Uncanny in Martin McDonagh's In Bruges
- Katalin Sándor: "It's Not So Far, Not So Near." (Un)homely Landscapes in Contemporary Romanian Films
- Kamilla Simor: Analogue to Digital, Black and White to Colour. On the Issues of Colourized Archival Material
- Melinda Blos-Jáni: The Uncanny of the Self Portrait in Jonas Mekas's and José Luis Guerín's Filmed Correspondences
A Magyar Filmtudományi Társaság éves konferenciája: Háború, agresszió, konfliktus. Mozgóképi reprezentációk és gyakorlatok. (The annual conference of the Hungarian Society for Film Studies: War, Agression, Conflict. Cinematic Reprezentations and Practices). University of Art and Design Moholy-Nagy, Budapest (Hungary). 4-5 November 2022.
Paper presented at this conference:
- Kamilla Simor: A szín mint időbeli réteg. Az archív háborús felvételek kolorizációjának problémái (Colour as a Temporal Layer. Issues of Colourizing Archival Footage of War)
Magyar-román fotográfiai kapcsolatok a két világháború között konferencia [Hungarian-Romanian Photographic Relations Between the Two World Wars Conference]. Organizer: Mai Manó House Photographic Museum, Budapest (Hungary). 10 November 2022.
Presentation at this conference:
- Melinda Blos-Jáni: Kolozsvári fotósok az 1920-30-as években: intézmények és médiumok között [Photographers in Cluj-Napoca in the Interwar Period: Between Institutions and Media]
Guest lectures presenting results of the research project
Publications
Articles in scientific journals indexed in international databases:
- Ágnes Pethő: The Exquisite Corpse of History. Radu Jude and the Intermedial Collage. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies, 2022. vol. 21: 36-100. DOI: 10.2478/ausfm-2022-0003. (Indexed in several international databases, e.g. in Web of Science Core Collection Emerging Sources Citation Index - ESCI, ERIH plus, etc.)
- Sándor Katalin: Transznacionális elmozdulások Valeska Grisebach Western (2017) című filmjében.[Transnational Displacements in Valeska Grisebach's Film, Western (2017)] Erdélyi Múzeum, 2022. 3. 133-140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36373/em-2022-3-11 (CNCS B category journal, indexed in the following international databases: ERIH PLUS, CEEOL, Index Copernicus)
- Judit Pieldner: Crisis Narrative and Affective Intermediality: Figuring Disaster in Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies, 22 (2022) 18-38. DOI: 10.2478/ausfm-2022-0010. (Indexed in several international databases, e.g. in Web of Science Core Collection Emerging Sources Citation Index - ESCI, ERIH plus, etc.)
- Hajnal Király: Hajnal Király: The Ludovico Effect of Intermediality in A Clockwork Orange: The Novel and the Film. The AnaChronisT, New Series, Vol. 20, 2022, 102-119. DOI:10.53720/XIYI2506 (Indexed in the following databases: Cengage Gale and EBSCO).
- Melinda Blos-Jáni: A film médiumáról való beszéd a Művelődésben (1948-1985). [Discourses about the Medium of Film in the Journal Művelődés (1948–1985)] ME.dok (forthcoming). (Indexed in the following databases: Index Copernicus, CEEOL, Erih Plus. CNCSIS category C journal.)
Publications in cultural journals which disseminate the research results beyond the more restrained academic environment:
- Simor Kamilla: Intézménnyé válni. Frederick Wiseman munkásságának filmtörténeti és társadalomelméleti megközelítései. Prizma filmművészeti folyóirat, 2022/1 [To Become an Institution. Film Historical and Theoretical Approachest to the Oeuvre of Frederick Wiseman. Prizma. Journal of the Art of Film] (forthcoming).
Book chapters in edited volumes published by scientific publishing houses:
- Ágnes Pethő: Cinema's Affective and Metaleptic Intermediality. In: Massimo Fusillo, Doriana Legge, Mirko Lino, Mattia Petricola, Gianluigi Rossini (eds.): Transcodification: Literature, Arts, Media, De Gruyter, 2023 (accepted for publication, forthcoming).
- Judit Pieldner: Sensations of In-Betweenness, Intermedial Transgressions in Martin McDonagh's In Bruges. In: Melinda Blos-Jáni, Hajnal Király, Mihály Lakatos, Judit Pieldner, Katalin Sándor (eds.): Intermedial Encounters. Scientia, Cluj Napoca, 2022. ISBN 9786069750735. 211-221.
- Katalin Sándor: "Excavations" – An Intermedial Approach to Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure (2015). In: Melinda Blos-Jáni, Hajnal Király, Mihály Lakatos, Judit Pieldner, Katalin Sándor (eds.): Intermedial Encounters. Scientia, Cluj Napoca, 2022. ISBN 9786069750735. 249-259.
- Hajnal Király: Guilty Landscapes and Landscapes of Guilt in Contemporary Cinema. In: Melinda Blos-Jáni, Hajnal Király, Mihály Lakatos, Judit Pieldner, Katalin Sándor (eds.): Intermedial Encounters. Scientia, Cluj Napoca, 2022. ISBN 9786069750735. 325-335.
- Melinda Blos-Jáni: Getting in Touch. (Un)Framing Reality in Jonas Mekas's and José Luis Guerín's Filmed Correspondences (2011). In: Melinda Blos-Jáni, Hajnal Király, Mihály Lakatos, Judit Pieldner, Katalin Sándor (eds.): Intermedial Encounters. Scientia, Cluj Napoca, 2022. ISBN 9786069750735. 393-407.
Books:
- Hajnal Király: The Cinema of Manoel de Oliveira. Modernity, Intermediality and the Uncanny.
New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ISBN: 9781501378638.
- Király Hajnal: Film a határon. Tanulmányok a 2001 és 2018 közötti magyar és román filmről (Film across the Border. Studies about Hungarian and Romanian Cinema between 2011 and 2018). Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, Cluj, 2022. ISBN: 978-606-739-221-0. CNCS category B Publishing House (in the field of cinema and media studies).
- Melinda Blos-Jáni, Hajnal Király, Mihály Lakatos, Judit Pieldner, Katalin Sándor (eds.): Intermedial Encounters. Studies in Honour of Ágnes Pethő. Editura Scientia, Cluj Napoca, 2022. ISBN 9786069750735. CNCS categoriy B Publishing House.
International connections
- 21-24 November 2022. Meeting with scholars working on similar researches in the domain of intermediality at the Department of Cultural Values, Archaeology, History, Art, Film, Music from the University of Padova, Italy and the editors of the journal Arabeschi (specialized on topics of intermediality and transmediality, journal indexed as category A in Italy), ISSN: 2282-0876.
