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1999 Visible Evidence Conference
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1999 Visible Evidence Conference
Program |
All events will be held in the James Bridges Theater
in Melnitz Hall unless otherwise noted.
Running concurrently with the conference, these screenings are free and open to the public.
| Thursday, Aug. 19, 1999 | Friday, Aug. 20, 1999 |
| Saturday, Aug. 21, 1999 | Sunday, Aug. 22, 1999 |
7:45–8:30
Registration / Continental Breakfast in the Melnitz Hall lobby
8:30
Welcome
8:40–10:25
Regulating the Real
Brian Winston, Westminster University (UK), panel moderator
Bernard Cook, Georgetown University
"Over My Dead Body: The Ideology of Substitution in Network News Coverage of the Vietnam War"
Stephen Tropiano, Ithaca College
"The Man Behind the Potted Plant: 1960s TV News and the Construction of Homosexuality"
Liza Trevino, University of Southern California
"Living the Good Life: Home Improvement Shows and Non-fiction Television Programming"
Brian Winston, Westminster University
"Lying In Public: British Television Regulators Invent a New Offence."
10:35–12:20
Evidence
Michael Asimow, UCLA, panel moderator
Zoe Druick, York University, and David Layton, attorney, Shiller, Layton, Arbuck
"In the Rogue's Gallery: Visual Documents, Documentary Film and the Theatre of Justice"
Eric Gordon, University of Southern California
"Presiding Over the Public Sphere: Real Courtroom Television after OJ"
Richard Sherwin, New York Law School
"The Jurisprudence of Appearances: When Law Plays the Media Game The Media Win"
Tom Grochowski, New York University
"You have the videotape, what else do you need?: Amateur Footage and the Silent Cinema Lecturer"
12:20–2:00
Lunch
Lunches may be purchased on campus at Lu Valle Comons (6C on map), North Campus Student Center (5C), or Ackerman Union (5E).
1:10–1:50
Special Presentation: Stephen Mamber, "Center for Hidden Camera Research"
Presentation of a new web site (starting in August) devoted to issues related to hidden cameras. While part of the presentation will demonstrate what's on the web site, including examples of a number of types of hidden camera footage, there will also be discussion of hidden camera issues, particularly in terms of their possible relation to other forms of documentary. Also, there will be an examination of how digital media might relate to and present documentary material.
2:00–3:45
Border Genres: Facts, Fictions & Spaces Between
Derek Paget, University College of Worcester (UK), panel moderator
Jane Roscoe, University of Waikato (New Zealand)
"So, You Want to be a Mock-Documentary?"
Steve Lipkin, University of West Michigan
"Instructive Positions: The Rhetoric of Relatability in Recent Feature Film Docudrama"
Richard Kilborn, University of Stirling (UK)
"Discovering the Power of Real-Life Soap"
Gareth Palmer, University of Salford (UK)
"'Neighbours from Hell': Producing Incivility"
4:00–5:30
Video Nations: Broadcasting Video Diaries in Britain and the U.S.
A discussion and examination of two parallel projects–one British, the other American–in which the broadcast of video diaries by diverse citizens helps to construct some idea of nation. Featuring Mandy Rose, BBC, and Ellen Schneider, PBS, moderated by Michael Renov.
5:45–7:15
Evening Reception Held in Soundstage One.
7:30–9:45
An Evening with Marina Goldovskaya
Moderated by Dean Robert Rosen, School of Theater Film and Television
Screenings include House on Arbat Street (1993) as well as clips from several of Ms. Goldovskaya's other award winning documentaries.
7:45–8:30
Registration / Continental Breakfast in the Melnitz Hall lobby
8:30–10:15
Real Phantasies I
Akira Mizuta Lippit, San Francisco State University, panel moderator
Laura Czarnecki, University of Minnesota
"Mother as Phantom Organ: the Case of Maternal Bionics at Quintland"
Thomas W. Sheehan, University of California, Berkeley
"The Russian 'Poetic' Documentary: Fantasy Documentary or Documentary Fantasy?"
Fred Moten, New York University
"SONATA QUASI UNA FANTASIA: Dynamic Totality and the Documentary Drive"
10:30–12:15
Workshops: Documenting Activism
Workshop I
Alex Juhasz, Pitzer College, workshop moderator
Deron Albright, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Reflections on the Philadelphia Teen Project: A Case Study in Representation"
David Whiteman, University of South Carolina
"Reassessing the Impact of Documentary Film: Filmmakers, Activist Community Organizations, and Public Policy"
Vicki Mayer, UC San Diego
"Discursive Structurings of a Mexican American Alternative Video Project"
Richard Edwards, University of Southern California
"Taking to the Streets: Video Activism as a Cultural Form"
Alex Juhasz, Pitzer College
"Documenting Contemporary Feminist Media History: Making Women of Vision."
Workshop II Held in 2534 Melnitz
Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University, workshop moderator
Alan Marcus, Manchester University (UK)
"Robert Flaherty as documentary activist"
Roger Hallas, New York University
"Re-articulated Testimony: Fast Trip, Long Drop and the Problem of Bearing Witness"
Heather Macmillan, New York University
"Representing Imaginary/Reality: Notes on Theory and Practice of Contemporary Documentary"
Dan Streible, University of South Carolina
"On Sunday (1961): The 'Young American Filmmaker' and the Politics of Protest"
Christie Milliken University of Southern California
"The Discursive Sobriety of Corporeal Knowledge"
12:15–2:00
Lunch
Lunches may be purchased on campus at Lu Valle Comons (6C on map), North Campus Student Center (5C), or Ackerman Union (5E).
1:00–1:50
Special Presentation: The Newsreel Preservation Project
Blaine Bartell, Newsreel Preservationist, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Zoé Burman, Reference and Outreach Coordinator, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Sally Hubbard, New Media Coordinator, UCLA Film and Television Archive
2:00–3:00
Boxing
Dan Streible, University of South Carolina, panel moderator
Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Southern California
"Don King, Horatio's Other Brother: Race, Class and Identifying Politics"
Leger Grindon, Middlebury College
"The Race Hero: Its Construction or Collapse in When We Were Kings (1996) and The Fallen Champ: the Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993)"
3:15–5:30
Keynote
Introduction, Timothy Kittleson, Director, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Bill Nichols, San Francisco State University, panel moderator
Elizabeth Cowie, University of Kent (UK)
"The Fantasmatic Relation of the Spectator to the Documentary Film's Reality"
Vivian Sobchack, UCLA
"The Charge of the Real": Extra-textual Knowledges and Documentary Consciousness
Arild Fetveit, UC Berkeley
"Is Defining Documentary More Trouble Than Its Worth?"
5:45–7:15
Evening Reception Held in Soundstage One.
7:30–9:30
Permeable Lines
With Edward James Olmos, Penelope Spheeris, Haskel Wexler
Following the keynote address this panel will examine the boundaries and the overlap between documentary and fiction from the perspective of Hollywood filmmakers, cinematographers, actors and directors. Clips to be announced.
7:45–8:30
Registration / Continental Breakfast in the Melnitz Hall lobby
8:30–10:15
Real Phantasies II
Fred Moten, New York University, panel moderator
Laura Harris, New York University
"Raoul Peck's Desounen: Dialogue with Death and the Relay of Fantasy"
Akira Mizuta Lippit, San Francisco State University
"Paradocumentary: Experimental Breakdowns and Affective Truth"
Louis Schwartz, University of Iowa
"Seeing Absence: Traversing The Documentary Phantasy by The Act Of Seeing With One's Own Eyes"
Sue Scheibler, University of Southern California
"Fantasizing the Document: Documenting the Body Beautiful"
10:30–12:15
Border Wars
John Caldwell, UCLA, panel moderator
John Caldwell, UCLA
"The Performativity of Landscape: Race, Space, and 'Rancho California (por favor)'"
Rebecca Romani, San Diego State University
"B is For Border: Cutting for Sign"
Monique Yamaguchi, University of Southern California
"Film Within the Discourses of Public Broadcasting and Public Access"
Margarita De la Vega Hurtado, University of Michigan
"Docu-Drama vs. Documentary in the Immigrant's Eye"
12:15–2:00
Catered Lunch Held adjacent to the Sculpture Garden
2:00–3:45
Autobiography
Janet Walker, UC Santa Barbara, panel moderator
James Tobias, University of Southern California
"Meditation on a Freeway Suicide: The Sacrifice of Autobiography"
Laura Vazquez, Northwestern University
"Women's Autobiographical Documentary and the Construction of Identity"
Ethan Thompson, University of Southern California
"Personal vs. Popular Memory of the 'Real' Vietnam on the Web"
Michael Renov, University of Southern California
"Digital Identities: Autobiography in the Age of the Internet"
4:00–5:45
Historiography
Vivian Sobchack, UCLA, panel moderator
Steve Anderson, University of Southern California
"Landscape Historicide: Textualizing the Past in James Benning's Southwest Trilogy"
Judith Lancioni, Rowan University
"In Search of Emeline: Sins of Our Mothers As Creative Non-Fiction"
Beth Houghton, University of Southern California
"Asian American Identity and Ethnicity in Documentary Film and Video"
Diane Scheinman, New York University
"Condoms and Comfort Women: Senso Daughters Investigates Japan's 'Forgotten War'"
Saturday Evening
Documentary Outlaws
To be held at USC. Buses will leave UCLA at 6:00
Followed by reception
Documentary Outlaws is a panel discussion among four film and videomakers -- Gregg Araki, Allen Rucker, Susan Mogul and Eric Trules -- whose work has refigured the conventions and practices of mainstream documentary traditions. The event, moderated by Michael Renov, will be held at USC's Norris Theater with a reception following. This event is in honor of the David L. Wolper Center for the Study of the Documentary and will include an introduction to this new facility.
7:45–8:30
Registration / Continental Breakfast in the Melnitz Hall lobby
8:30–10:15
WORKING SESSION: Digital Documentary Project
John Hess, Jump Cut, moderator
Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College, moderator
Peter Hughes, La Trobe University (Australia)
Margaret Morse, UC Santa Cruz
Laura U. Marks, Carleton University (Canada)
10:30–12:15
Hand Held Cameras and Other Things: Documentary Sexologies
Jane Gaines and Thomas Waugh, co-panel moderators
Thomas Waugh, Concordia University (Canada)
"Direct Cinema, Direct Sex 1956-1973"
Jane Gaines, Duke University
"Machines that Make the Body Do Things"
Shelley Stamp, UC-Santa Cruz
"Visualizing Vice, and Other Problems of the White Slave Films"
12:15–1:45
Catered Lunch Held adjacent to the Sculpture Garden
1:45–3:30
The Moving Image in Scientific and Medical Practice
Scott Curtis, Northwestern University, panel moderator
Scott Curtis, Northwestern University
"'As Tangible as Tissue': Film and Medical Hermeneutics"
Gabriel M. Paletz, University of Southern California
"Immovable Concepts, Mutable Science: Transforming the California Science Center"
Oliver Gaycken, University of Chicago
"Reading Radiation: The Development of X-Ray Vision"
3:45–5:30
The Zone: At the Ends of the Visible
Bruce Yonemoto, UCLA, panel moderator
Joan Hawkins, Indiana University
"No Visible Evidence: Derek Jarman's Blue and The Radical Refusal of Images"
Virginia Bonner, Emory University
"Sans Soleil: Visions in the Zone"
Barbara Moum, Ohio State University
"Trinh T. Minh-ha's A Tale of Love: Documenting Contested Realities"
Malin Wahlberg, Stockholm University
"The Phenomenology of Shared Experience: The Notion of the Trace in Le Fond de l'air est Rouge by Chris Marker"
5:45-8:00
Closing Reception Held on Soundstage One for all those with energy or inclination.