Cine-Excess VI:
TRANSGLOBAL EXCESS: THE ART AND ATROCITY OF CULT ADAPTATION
24th-26th May 2012,
Odeon Covent Garden& The Italian Cultural Institute, London
CONFIRMED GUESTS OF HONOUR:
Enzo G. Castellari (Keoma, The Inglorious Bastards, Bronx Warriors)
Sergio Martino (Torso, The Violent Professionals, Mountain of the Cannibal God)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Professor Mary P. Wood (University of London, Birkbeck)
Professor Steffen Hantke (Sogang University)
Over the last 5 years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference and Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with global cult filmmakers. Cine-Excess comprises of a 3 day conference alongside plenary talks, filmmaker interviews and 5-7 UK theatrical premieres of up and coming cult releases. The event also features its own dedicated DVD label, with releases including the official UK Blu-ray release of Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977). More recently, Cine-Excess staff assisted with the new director's cut of Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (1979), in conjunction with UK distributor Shameless Films, while a new Cine-Excess peer reviewed e-journal is being launched in October 2012 to profile a key selection of papers presented at the annual event.
Cine-Excess VI focuses on global adaptations of cult narratives, genres, themes and icons across a broad range of media and fiction formats. From pulp novels into pulp horror films and recent big budget blockbuster remakes of marginal midnight movies, to nationally defined interpretations of the pre-established extreme, the cult image remains a fascinating index of adaptation, whose wide array of remakes, renditions and realisations frequently reveals fascinating issues of nation and narrative, as well cultural, regional and historical distinction.
In order to investigate this concept further, Cine-Excess VI will consider global case-studies of cult adaptation, with a particular focussing on differing national and narrative conceptions of the outlandish and the extreme.
We are delighted that acclaimed action director and Tarantino influence Enzo G. Castellari, as well as the iconic Euro-cult auteur Sergio Martino whose work both trades on themes and national traditions of cult adaption have now been confirmed as two of the Guests of Cine-Excess VI. We are also honoured to host key note talks at the event by Professor Mary P. Wood (University of London), and Professor Steffen Hantke (University of Sogang) on related themes of cult adaptation. Cine-Excess VI will also profile a special script-to-screen competition prepared in collaboration with Time Out magazine, which will see established horror icons judging new screenplays from up and coming talent.
Alongside these highlights, Cine-Excess VI is still looking to secure conference papers which consider the concept of adaptation in its broad theoretical remit, focusing on a range of cult re-mediations across a wide range of written and visual media, including film, television, literature, games, comics, and digital media. A selection of papers presented at the event will be published in the new Cine-Excess e-journal. Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following topics and areas:
* Pulped Priming: Cult Renditions from Literature to Film and Beyond
* The Art and Atrocity of Adaptation: Studies of Cult Narrative and Style
* Violence, Vengeance and the Seductive: Cult Cycles From Culture to Culture
* The Years Without Lead: Historical Trauma, Sexuality and the Euro-Extreme
* Eugenics and Exploitation: Adapting National Fears Through the Cult Image
* Harlots, Howlers and Hobos: Case-Studies in Canadian Excess
* Trans-European Excess: Cult Controversies from the European Margins
* Gimmie Slaughter: Celluloid Adaptations of the Mansion Cult
* Skin Flicks and Perverse Surgery: From Eyes Without a Face to The Human Centipede and Beyond
* Outback Outrages: Recent Renditions of the Australian Extreme
* From Nazi to 'Nastisploitation': Cult Adaptations of Filmic Fascism
* Institutional Excess: Exploitation Outfits from Troma Films to The Asylum
* DIY Cults: Fan Films and Subcultures of Adaptation
* Adaptation as Arousal: Erotic Renditions of Film and Literature
* Female Avengers: Controversial Cult Femmes Across Cultural Borders
* The Devil Within Her: The Cult Possession Movie Across National Boundaries
* Adapting Excess: Case Studies of the Cult Performer
* The Trans-Global Extreme: Adapting the Iconography of Weird World Cinema
* Islamic Exploitation Cinema: Race, Religion and Cult Iconography
* Grindhouse Grooves: From Visuals to Vinyl
* Last Screenplay on the Left: Blockbuster Renditions of the Extreme
* Look Back in Ankara: Turkish Trash Cinema Traditions
* Sun, Sex and Sadism: Case Studies in 'Greeksploitation'
* Cult Across Categories: Multimedia Re-mediations of the Marginal
* Chrome, Metal and Cult: Cult Biker, Cop and Gangs from Cinema to TV
We welcome individual paper submissions, panels and roundtable proposals. Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by Wednesday 21st March 2012 to:
Xavier Mendik
Director of Cine-Excess
The School of Arts
Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
xavier.mendik@brunel.ac.uk
Filippo Del Lucchese
Co-Director of Cine-Excess
The School of Social Science
Brunel University
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
filippo.dellucchese@brunel.ac.uk
For further information and regular updates on the event (including information on further guests and a final schedule of screenings) please visit www.cine-excess.co.uk
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