2025 World Picture Conference

Eugenie Brinkema (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Uncover, dogs, and lap

Brian Price (University of Toronto)

Lost (in Black and White): On Balthus’ Mitsou

Thomas Quist (University of Toronto)

The Echo of the Cine-Subject

Domietta Torlasco (Northwestern University)

Queer Pleasure in the Time of (Italian) Cinema (video)

Sergio Rigoletto (University of Groningen)

Crossings: Screen Art Viewership and the Encounter with the Queer Refugee

Scott Krzych (Colorado College)

Politics of Place in the Unaffordable City: On Recent New York Indie Cinema

Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex)

Directing the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Rhys Jones (University of Amsterdam)

Beautiful Symmetries: On Distance and Proximity in Homo Sapiens (2016)

Valerie Werder (Harvard University)

Be as if my body for me: police bodycam footage and directional viscerality

Ry Montgomery (University of Cambridge)

Against Direction: (In)visibility and Refusal in bruce’s vos papiers (2013)

Luka Arsenjuk (University of Maryland)

On Not Expecting (Too Much)

Kalling Heck (Louisiana State University)

Polemics Forever

Jeff Scheible (King’s College London)

Back to the Forward Slash

Scott Durham (Northwestern University)

The Direction of History and The Uses of Ontology: Temporality and Aesthetic Politics in Marker and Godard

Dillan Newman (University of Toronto)

Blind Directions: Infinite Responsibility at the “End of History”

Oliver Dixon (University of Cambridge)

Directions in Meaning-Production: The theory of ‘integrated practice’, 1970s British independent cinema and political modernism.

Damon Ross Young (University of California, Berkeley)

Directionless: Queer Cinema and the Nothing

Jakob Henselmans (University of Amsterdam)

Sex: A Middle Theory

Mynt Marsellus (University of Toronto)

Philosophy for Sinthomosexuals: Aversion, Repair, and Education after Edelman and Cavell

Caitlin Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time’s Directions: Temporal Intelligibility in Reservation Dogs

Paul Flaig (University of St Andrews)

Repeat Performances: Towards a Genealogy of the Time-Loop

Ali Suriel Melchor (University of Cambridge)

Digging up the past: fascism, landscape and Iberian cinema in the 1970s

Veronica Fitzpatrick (Brown University)

I’ve Seen Enough: Twisters’ Absent Kiss

Avneet Sharma (University of Toronto)

Shot/Reverse Shot and Pasolini’s Desirous Direction

McNeil Taylor (University of Cambridge)

Directions in the Desert: The Errant Pan in Moses und Aron (1974)

Daniel Loick (University of Amsterdam)

20:00 Conference Dinner

Seb Franklin (King’s College London)

Automation as 3-directional metaphor: labor–machinery–slavery

John David Rhodes (University of Cambridge)

A Theory of the Extra

Mathieu Li-Goyette (University of Amsterdam)

Fast Rights and Curveballs in Early American Comic Strip

Jixin Jia (University of Toronto)

Unblinking Eyes: Late Tsai Ming-Liang’s Absorptive Shift

Georgina Evans (University of Cambridge)

Directing the gaze through organized light, via Anthony McCall

Jennifer Pranolo (Pace University)

Directing Desire: Helen Marten’s Irreal Dream-Play

Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York University)

The Meat Problem

Oskar Ban Brejc (University of Amsterdam)

Chewing the Filmstrip: Unusual Directions

Kyle Stevens (Appalachian State University)

Clutching Pearls

Jillian Vasko (University of Toronto) and Sarah Sachar (Northwestern University)

Infinite Meat/Chopper (video)

Conall Cash (St Francis Xavier University)

Aesthetics of the Moment in French Cinema: Orientalism and Non-Directionality in and After the ‘Politique des auteurs’

Jenny Gunn (Georgia State University)

As Art, As Perception: Free-Indirect Assemblage and Olivier Assayas’s Irma Veps

Lawrence Neal Garcia (University of Toronto)

Conceptual Nomadism: On Deleuze’s Wandering Significance

Elizabeth Wijaya (University of Toronto)

Fugitive IndirectionFugitive IndirectioDisoriented Direction: Herzog, Antarctica, and Other-than-Human AgencyFugitive Indirection

Martin Blumenthal-Barby (Rice University)

Disoriented Direction: Herzog, Antarctica, and Other-than-Human Agency

Diego Cagüeñas (University of Amsterdam)

Interspecies Directions: Mollusks, Tides, Ancestors, and the Future of Life in Colombia’s Pacific Coast

Amy Rust (University of South Florida)

Props, gaslighting, and other forms of (mis)direction

Mauro Resmini (University of Maryland)

Resentment as Misdirection

Nicolas Helm-Grovas (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin)

Direction, Misdirection, Suspension

Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow)

Non-Professional Performance as Revolutionary Mobilization

Markos Hadjioannou (Duke University)

How we got “interactivity” so wrong

Stephen Woo (Marist College)

All of Us Want to Circulate Less

Alessandra Raengo (Georgia State University) and Lauren McLeod Cramer (University of Toronto)

Best Practices/Better Praxis

Eliza Steinbock (Maastricht University)