Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema

📣 Coming up next Tuesday!
🗓️ Dec 9, 2025
🕒 2–4 PM EST

Join team member Dr. @juliaecheverria.bsky.social's online lecture on epidemic cinema at @miskatonicihs.bsky.social to explore the emergence of the “epidemic film” as a distinct genre🦠🎬

🎟️ Details & tickets: shorturl.at/ZFk5L

Our co-PI Celestino Deleyto Alcalá just delivered the paper "Back to Syracuse: Indiana Jones, Cinematic Space and the Palimpsest"🔎🗺️

We’re excited to be at #AEDEAN48 this week! 🎉

Our team members are sharing their work at the conference organized by @aedeaninfo.bsky.social and hosted by @ehu.eus 📚

⬇️ Follow this thread to see what they’re up to!

¡Cinéfilos de Zaragoza de 12 a 18 años! 📣🍿

La semana que viene, nuestra compañera de equipo @victoriasantamaria.bsky.social va a organizar una actividad con la Zona Joven del IES Pablo Serrano en la que ofrecerá una visión crítica del cine🧑‍🎓

Podéis inscribiros aquí: shorturl.at/XRVis

What a fantastic afternoon! 👏

Thank you all for joining us for the screening of Le Monde de Lovecraft, and the subsequent colloquium with Gilles Menegaldo at @unizar.es!

We hope you enjoyed the film and the discussions on cosmic horror!🎬

🎬 This afternoon, we are screening Le Monde de Lovecraft by Marc Charley at @unizar.es's Aula Magna at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. It explores the fascinating life and work of US author H. P. Lovecraft🖋️

If you are interested in documentary cinema and cosmic horror stories, don't miss it! 🎦

🎬 Hoy proyectamos Le Monde de Lovecraft de Marc Charley en el Aula Magna de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de @unizar.es, que explora la fascinante vida y obra del autor estadounidense H. P. Lovecraft🖋️

Si te interesan el cine documental y las historias de terror cósmico, ¡no dudes en asistir! 🎦

¡Cinéfilos de Zaragoza de 12 a 18 años! 📣🍿

La semana que viene, nuestra compañera de equipo @victoriasantamaria.bsky.social va a organizar una actividad con la Zona Joven del IES Pablo Serrano en la que ofrecerá una visión crítica del cine🧑‍🎓

Podéis inscribiros aquí: shorturl.at/XRVis

Calling all teen film lovers in Zaragoza! 📣🍿

We're thrilled to share that next week, team member Victoria Santamaría will be partnering with the Youth Zone at IES Pablo Serrano to host an exciting film activity for ages 12 to 18 🧑‍🎓

📽️You can sign up here: shorturl.at/XRVis

Excited to share my latest publication: "Fast-Forward to the Future: Socioeconomic Change
and Spatial Reconfigurations in Years and Years (Russell T. Davies 2019)". link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
@iedis.bsky.social @filoinglesauz.bsky.social @spacescinema.bsky.social @springernature.com

We've set up our official Google Scholar profile! 🎓
You can now follow us to stay up-to-date with our research and publications, from our earliest to our newest releases📝
Check it out here 👇
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Do Not Touch! The Rise of the Epidemic Cinema Genre (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies From zombie apocalypses to deadly contagions, the early twenty-first century saw an unprecedented proliferation of fictional narratives centered on highly transmissible pathogens, building on past epi...

I'm thrilled to announce that Dec 9 I’ll deliver an online lecture at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on epidemic cinema. Don't miss it! 👉 miskatonicinstitute.com/events/do-no...
@spacescinema.bsky.social
@filoinglesauz.bsky.social
@fylunizar.bsky.social

Today I will be presenting a paper on Villeneuve's Dune adaptations at the SERCIA conference in Cluj-Napoca (panel B2) @sercia.bsky.social @spacescinema.bsky.social @iedis.bsky.social

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.”
theconversation.com/parece-que-f...

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"