The format for BtS 2021 Ningbo (Online) will involve asynchronous presentations but synchronous discussions to allow for participation across multiple time zones. Thus, please watch the panels in advance, and then join us for the 1 hour discussion sessions on each panel as per the schedule below.
The organising team for this year are based in the UK, China and Canada and so we’ve provided schedule information in Eastern Standard Time (EST), British Summer Time (BST) and China Standard Time (CST). We know not all presenters are joining us from those particular time zones, but we’ve tried to take everyone’s locations into account when scheduling. Inevitably, not all participants will be able to ‘attend’ all panel discussions, but all papers will be available on the BtSN You Tube Channel for the duration of the conference.
As with many conferences at this time, the format might be quite unfamiliar to presenters and attendees alike. If you do have any questions about the format (or anything else) please do contact the organizing committee in advance at besidesthescreen@gmail.com. You are welcome to also contact us via out social media channels, but please note that we do not monitor these accounts as regularly and so email is the best way to contact us. Also, during the conference itself, we will be busy with conference organization and so may take longer than usual to reply.
Thursday 10th June 2021
| EST (CA) | BST (UK) | CST (CN) | PANEL | SPEAKER(S) | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:45 – 07:00 | 11:45 – 12:00 | 18:45 – 19:00 | Welcome to BtS 2021 Ningbo (Online) | Virginia Crisp | |
| 07:00 – 08:00 | 12:00 – 13.00 | 19:00 – 20:00 | A1: Changing Practices & Priorities in Creative Production Chair: Virginia Crisp | Roy Hanney | Shadow Sites, Peripheral Spaces, Embodied Places: the 48-hour film challenge as a locus for film industry project networks WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili |
| Siqi Liu | The South as the Site of Production: Socio-economic Development and Chinese Cinema since the Late 1970s WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Mark R Johnson | Behind the Streams: The Off-Camera Labour of Twitch.tv Live Streamer WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Kim Munro | Live Virtual Documentary: Ephemeral Forms for Precarious Times WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Miguel Mira | Music for a Virtually All Seeing Audience: Capturing Musical Performances with 360° Cameras WATCH: Vimeo / Bilibili | ||||
| 08:00 – 9:00 | 13:00 – 14:00 | 20:00 – 21:00 | Filmmakers Q&A | With the participation of: Christopher Boulton, Maurício Chades, Jeroen Cluckers, Catherine Gough-Brady, Paul Jacques Yves Guilbert, Mikhail Zheleznikov WATCH: Screening program | |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | 14:00 – 15:00 | 21:00 – 22:00 | A2: Infrastructures of circulation: Rarities, Contestations & Peripheries Chair: Virginia Crisp | James Rendell | Rare Exports: Informal Infrastructures of Transnational Television Circulation and Only-Click TV WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili |
| Kateryna Sivak | (Non-?)traditional Film Distribution Practices in Ukraine WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Alessio Baldini & Rachel Johnson | Contested Spaces: Filming and Distributing Iuventa (2018) WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Angela English | Peripheries and Borders: Geographies of Memory in four New Towns WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| 10:00 – 11:00 | 15:00 – 16:00 | 22:00 – 23:00 | A3: Under the Shadow of Empire Chair: Gabriel Menotti | Susan Lord | Under the Shadow of Empire: Minor Archives and Radical Media Distribution of the Americas before the Internet WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili |
| Tamara De Szegheo Lang | Curating Atmosphere: The Moving Image in Queer Community Context WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Zaira Zarza | Diasporic Archives of Cuban Cinema: Vulnerable Journeys WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili |
Friday 11th June 2021
| EST (CA) | BST (UK) | CST (CN) | PANEL | SPEAKER(S) | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:00 | 14:00 – 15:00 | 21:00 – 22:00 | B1: Film Cities and Histories Chair: Virginia Crisp | Carla Mereu Keating | Film Studios and the Eternal City: Rome’s Political Governance and Spaces of Film Production PRIVATE LINK SENT TO ATTENDANTS |
| Lawrence Bird | Imposter Cities WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Dyna Herlina Suwarto | Yogyakarta as a 1946-1949 Indonesia Film Capital WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Hao Wen | Positioning Cinema in Tokyo’s Urban Cultural Policies in the 1980s—“cinema as culture” at Meta-policy and Practical Levels WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| 10:00 – 11:00 | 15:00 – 16:00 | 22:00 – 23:00 | B2: Film Tourism: Selling (imagined) spaces and places Chair: Gabriel Menotti | Sarah Watts | Harry Potter Film Tourism and the Representation of Britishness PRIVATE LINK SENT TO ATTENDANTS |
| Abby S. Waysdorf | Friends and Corporate Spaces of Fandom WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Apoorva Nanjangud | Experiencing Cinematic Itineraries: Analyzing Sights, Sounds, and Sites of Popular Hindi Cinema WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Carter Moulton | Down Into the Vaults: Drillable Immersion at Franchise Lands WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili |
Saturday 12th June 2021
| EST (CA) | BST (UK) | CST (CN) | PANEL | SPEAKER(S) | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:00 | 14:00 – 15:00 | 21:00 – 22:00 | C1: Film Festivals: Developments & Futures Chair: Virginia Crisp | Richard Misek | The Online Film Festival WATCH: Youtube / Bilibili |
| Roderik Smits | European Film Festivals in Transition: Reshaping the Traditional Festival Format WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Stefania Haritou | Against Silence – All Voices WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Shawn Pan | Would Online Film Festivals become a New Direction? Using Hugoeast Virtual Cinema Festival as an example WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| 10:00 – 11:00 | 15:00 – 16:00 | 22:00 – 23:00 | C2: Audiovisual Colonialism: Producing Power Chair: Gabriel Menotti | Darien Sanchez-Nicolas | All Inclusive/ Tout Inclus: Cinematic voyages between Cuba and Québec WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili |
| Alexander Christensen | Revisiting The African Queen: Hollywood Abroad and Cinematic Colonialism WATCH YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| Lyuwenyu Zhang | “We Are A Team”: the Selling of Global Images in Produce Camp 2021 WATCH: YouTube / Bilibili | ||||
| 11:00 – 11:15 | 16:00 – 16:15 | 23:00 – 23:15 | Closing Remarks | Gabriel Menotti |