Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema

Parece que fue ayer: 30 años de ‘Antes del amanecer’ En 1995, el encuentro entre dos jóvenes en un tren marcó a una generación e inició una trilogía icónica en la historia del cine.

Happy Before Sunrise Day! 🌅
30 years ago, Jesse and Céline met on a train and decided to get off in Vienna
“If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something.”
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We're glad to hear that! Thank you for coming!☺️

¡Gracias a ti, Jordi! Nos ha encantado contar con tu presencia en el congreso y nos alegramos mucho de que hayas disfrutado de estos días en Zaragoza ☺️ ¡Hasta la próxima!🎬

This was fun! Cliff Richard, Birmingham, and desktop documentary. Thanks Zaragoza! #realandimaginedspacesinfilm

And it's a wrap! Had a wonderful experience at the #RealAndImaginedSpacesInFilm conference organized by @spacescinema.bsky.social. Two intense days of great talks and an amazing venue for the exchange of ideas.

Next stop: Dissertation defense!

Áine O’Healy's plenary session: Reimagining Italy: Borderscapes and Urban Peripheries on Contemporary Screens🎦

6B. Space and the nation:

1. Michael Brodski's "The Concept of Smooth Space in the Soviet Cinema of the Thaw"

2. Christopher Brown's "Island Imagined: cartographyand space in 21st century Taiwanese cinema"

3. Shekhar Deshpande's "Lived Heterotopias of “the Zones” in Recent Russian Films"

3. Nicolas Pillai's "Building Baker Street: setting and space in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"

Panel 6A. Constructing imaginary spaces, featuring:

1. @claudiaguas.bsky.social's "Between Dream and Reality: The Transformation of New York City in Vanilla Sky"

2. Raúl García Egüés' "The filmic landscape in the rear projections of Hitchcock and De Palma"

3. Alexandra Semenova's "The Logic of Disorientation: Real, Imagined, and Pictorial Space in Albert Serra´s Afternoons of Solitude"

and Panel 5B: Theorizing space and place, featuring:

1. Fady Atallah's “Unreal” Spaces as Meaning Bearers: Anti-Realist Cinema Through a Philosophical Lens"

2. Aleksi Rennes' "Pure Mathematics and Armed Struggle: Practices of Cinematic Placemaking in Ici et ailleurs (1976) and Incendies (2010)"

2. Jemma Saunders' "‘Silly Geography’ and the Musical Sequence: Remapping the Birmingham of Take Me High"

3. Zipai Yang's "Emotional Interplay in Eating Spaces: The Relationship between Space, Emotion, and Food in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love and Chungking Express"

Day 2 of the #RealandImaginedSpacesinFilm Conference has arrived!☀️😄
It has started with two simultaneous panels, 5A: Cinematic cities (II), featuring:

1. Vicente Rodriguez Ortega's "Ephemeral Reciprocity in Wong Kar Wai’s Urban Films"

Keynote

Day two of #RealandImaginedSpacesInFilm @spacescinema.bsky.social

3. Ifigenia Dimitriou's "Reconstructing Urban Narratives: Jim Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation as a Cinematic-Spatial Representation of 1980s New York City"

4. Flavia Garrigós Cabañero's "Afropessimist Cities in Western Cinema: Bird's-Eye View of African Spaces"

and, lastly, panel 4B, on Cinematic cities (I), featuring:

1. Vincenzo Bavaro's "Cinematic Representation of the Los Angeles Freeways: Mobility, Isolation, and Urban Identity"

2. @abuesa.bsky.social's "Grounded Mobilities and the Street-Child Film"

2. Wing-Fai Leung's "Traversing Imagined Homes: Riceboy Sleeps and Return to Seoul"

3. Anissa Medjebeur's "A Virtual Travel Experience in a Chinese Ghost Town: Shadow Days"

4. @isabeltrevi.bsky.social's "North, South, Anywhere: Spaces of a Mobile Life in Zero Fucks Given"

That's a wrap!🎬
We closed up the first day of the conference with two wonderful simultaneous panels, 4A: Cinematic journeys, featuring:

1. Karolina Ginalska's "Non-liminal space in representation of indigenous peoples in Ciro Guerra’s The Wind Journeys (2009)"

3. Fabio Pezzetti Tonion's "Beyond the narrative, towards the mental landscape. Forms of landscape and space in the cinema of Ingmar Bergman"

4. Louise Radinger Field's "Dreaming Houses and Housing Dreams: Cinema, Architecture & Psyche"

3C: Actors/characters in space:

1. Emma Bauer's "The “Real” versus “Imagined” Southern Space(s) in American Culture: The Example of Ray McKinnon’s Rectify"

2. Sara Pesce's "Space, mise en scène and performance. A perspective on the actor’ work in the Stanislavski legacy"

3. Sanja Garic-Komnenic's "Remembering Sarajevo"

4. Rob Stone's "One’s Place in the World: Dead Man, First Cow, Meek’s Crossing and The Sisters Brothers"

Panel 3B: Lost, erased, and missing spaces:

1. Moha Boutahir's "Reconstructing Space, Borders and Erased Narratives in Narjiss Nejjar’s Apatride (2018)"

2. Jill Daniels' "Place, Temporality and the Imagined Witness"

4. @andrearm.bsky.social "Chasing rainbows: Instagram perfection and virtual success as failed shortcuts to adulthood in Ingrid Goes West"

3A: Screening spaces of youth:

1. Florian Grandena's “The Off-screen as Queer Space in My Life on Ice"

2. Suzanne Leonard's "Queering Teen Spaces in the Lesbian Caper Film"

3. Beatriz Oria's "From Everyday to Extraordinary: the Transformative Spaces of Teen Romance in Heartstopper"

Day 1 is HERE! 🎉
#RealandImaginedSpacesinFilm has officially begun, with our first panels exploring tourist spaces and rurality and wilderness

For Celestino Deleyto, film space has palimpsestic potential

Loved seeing Celestino Deleyto’s montages of shots from films set in Marseille and his photos of the same locations. #RealandImaginedSpacesInFilm

Join us as Celestino Deleyto presents the introduction: "Film Space and the Real World”

Slide of the presentation

And here is what I just presented at the conference "Real and Imagined Spaces in Film" (@spacescinema.bsky.social). Apocalypse and my city, two topics I am very interested in right now.

The floor is now open for questions🤓