2023/1 - #Ports

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The many stories of cinema and cinephilia in Pakistan
Masood, Syeda Momina (2023)
With a Camera in Hand, I Was Alive
Bird, Katie (2023)
Ports: On the material and symbolic mediation of global capitalism
Vélez-Serna, María; Stauff, Markus (2023)
Introducing and contextualising the contributions to the thematic section on ports, we discuss the conceptual and empirical productivity of the port for media research. As material infrastructures, ports mediate between land and sea, nature and culture, centres of power and colonised/extracted peripheries. As logistic nodes, ports connect transport and communication, technological innovation and revolutionary agency. Their ambivalent and managed visibility makes ports an intriguing motif of media representations that is harnessed for dramatic narratives, cognitive mapping of capitalism, or for city branding. As such ports help to rethink ideas about the relationship between material and symbolic aspects of mediation, between technological innovation and cultural heritage, between metaphorical and literal media ecologies.
Ports and media: A research project showcase
Baptist, Vincent; Savoldi, Francesca; Hein, Carola; Smith, James Louis; Ramírez, George N.; Moss-Wellington, Wyatt; Rawnsley, Ming-yeh T.; Loo, Yat Ming; Karmy, Eileen; Vidiella Pagès, Judit; Castro-Varela, Aurelio (2023)
‘The shipyard is dead’: Ports, memory, and left melancholy in contemporary French cinema
Scott, Ben (2023)
This article examines the representation of ports and shipyards within contemporary French cinema, addressing three works whose narratives centre around port towns on France’s Mediterranean coast: L’Atelier (2017), La Ville est tranquille (2000), and Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro (2011). The analysis places theories of left melancholy in dialogue with these films in order to explore their representation of the relationship between the Fordist past, neoliberal present, and any possible beyond. Consequently, it makes a case for the importance of the port as a site through which fundamental questions pertaining to cultural, social, and economic changes are explored within contemporary work-oriented film.
Cinema and/as infrastructure in interwar avant-gardes and empire aviation documentaries
Thapa, Anu (2023)
This article analyses cinematic exposition of aeriality in empire documentaries and avant-garde cinema from the interwar period to interrogate cinema as infrastructure, its weaponisation and deployment in the imperial project, and its convergence with aerial infrastructure which united the perception of Empire with the experience of modernity. I argue that the use of aeriality in the aestheticisation of infrastructures in avant-garde films like De Brug (Joris Ivens, 1928) and La Tour (Rene Clair, 1928) cannot be divorced from the ideology that is on overt display in Empire aviation documentaries such as Wings over Everest and Contact.
17th DocsMX: Returning to the streets and meeting with audiences
Pires, Bianca (2023)
Double Exposures: ‘Visual returns’ in the Deadwood and Breaking Bad sequel films
Tedesco-Barlocco, Brunella (2023)
Ports and the politics of visibility: An interview with Laleh Khalili
Vélez-Serna, María; Stauff, Markus (2023)
In this interview with Laleh Khalili, her book Sinews of War and Trade (Verso, 2020) is the starting point to discuss how ports – through their material procedures and their media representations – contribute to the uneven visibility of the global economy and labor conditions. The book weaves a richly-detailed history of places along the Arabian peninsula that have been transformed by oil and finance, imperialism and nationalism, from the traditional dhow traders to the modern container ports and oil terminals. In the interview Khalili details how some ports have become a spectacle that enacts the technological sublime and caters to tourism, while also obscuring less attractive operations such as bulk cargo and scrap. Their managed visibility offers insights into the infrastructural power relationships they emerge from and reproduce. This was particularly salient in the context of supply chain crises during COVID, which also exacerbated problems of labour exploitation and the restriction of human movement. Ports can also be key nodes of protest through tactical interruption of capitalist logistics. Next to critical analysis, Khalili suggests literary imagination as a procedure that allows for a more complex understanding of the layered realities of ports.
The use of sound and film as rebranding strategies in two Danish port cities
Lange, Ida Sofie Gøtzsche; Laursen, Lea Holst; van Hulst Pedersen, Marieke (2023)
Through two Danish case studies, we investigate how the media of sound and film production are used in port city branding and transformation: in the port city of Struer through a somewhat unconventional branding strategy called ‘The City of Sound’; and in the port of Hirtshals, through film productions foregrounding cultural, social, and physical-material aspects of the port. The paper analyses the role of sound and film in place-branding and port city development and discusses the challenges and benefits of these ventures as a port city transformation strategy, and in the building of positive port city narratives.
Data Papers – An Introduction
Schneider, Alexandra; Hagener, Malte (2023)
In order to diversify the scope of scholarly formats within NECSUS, the new section Data Papers offers a curated platform for publishing commented datasets from film and media studies research projects. It invites researchers to share insights into the often invisible collaborative work of data preparation and dataset collection.
Becoming Geological: Imagining an affirmative otherwise
Dolphijn, Rick; Jakubiec, Justyna (2023)
Editorial NECSUS – Spring 2023_#Ports
Beugnet, Martine; de Cuir Jr, Greg; Keilbach, Judith; Loist, Skadi; Pape, Toni; Vidal, Belén; Virginás, Andrea (2023)
Desire lines: An interview on the sociality of film with B. Ruby Rich
Brunow, Dagmar; Loist, Skadi (2023)
A conversation with B. Ruby Rich, one of the most prolific film critics in the world. For decades she has been involved in film culture as a curator, film critic, professor, and journal editor. In this interview, Skadi Loist and Dagmar Brunow talk with Rich about her inspirations, her international encounters, and her take on film culture and criticism. Above all, this conversation highlights the importance of looking at the social relations that make film culture happen.
Havana Film Festival New York 2022: A cultural bridge emerging from COVID-19
Farrell, Michelle (2023)
Desktop Documentary
Binotto, Johannes (2023)
Some Thoughts Occasioned by Four Desktops
Avissar, Ariel (2023)
National film festivals circuits in the Latin American sphere: Discussing film canon, film culture, and cinephilia
González Itier, Sebastián (2023)
Film festivals have been understood as part of a global network where each event acts as a node. Their position depends on their relevance and hierarchies within the circuit. However, this notion of a network does not necessarily reflect the establishment of national or local circuits linked to small nations and cinemas. Therefore, this article discusses the creation of local film festival circuits in Latin America based on film culture and cinephilia. I use the water cycle as a reference in order to identify that national circuits in Latin America work around a small group of festivals that act as condensers of resources, which are distributed to the rest of the circuit through different relationships: sublimation and deposition (film historiography); runoff (influence on smaller and local festivals); infiltration (film education); and evaporation, where the processed and transformed resources bring new films and new filmmakers to nurture the condenser film festivals to start this cycle all over again.
Indians from 1967: A Reaction
Kaushik, Ritika (2023)
Ports as nodes in film logistics: Swedish film agent Oscar Rosenberg in the years after the First World War
Björkin, Mats (2023)
Ports make visible neglected details in the history of film distribution. The international shipment of film connected for more than half a century the main nodes in the network of film distribution. This article maps questions on port-related logistical challenges, based on the personal and corporate collections of Swedish film distributor Oscar Rosenberg (1874-1943) and his film agency from around 1916 to 1930, also the changing conditions for four Swedish ports in the years around 1920.

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