BIRKBECK DEPT OF HISTORY OF ART AND SCREEN MEDIA

A symposium marked the launch of Birkbeck's new MA in History and Practice of Television in October 2009 - now recruiting for 2nd year starting October 2010 

 R W Fassbinder, Martha (1973): made possible by German television 

EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION  5-6 JUNE

FRIDAY 5 June

Session 1: UK Experimental television in the 70s and 80s

2.00pm - 3.30pm

Multicultural Mobsters: the Curious Case of Gangsters Mike Allen (Bbk)

3.30pm - 5.00pm

Artists in the Box: Avant-garde TV in Britain Al Rees (Royal College of Art)

 

SATURDAY 6 June

Session 2: 10.00am - 11.30am

France and the Institut national de l’audiovisuel

Dream on/Faut pas rever: Jean-Luc Godard and Television  Michael Temple (Bbk) 

11. 30am - 1. 00pm

Subverting documentary: Raul Ruiz at INA   Ian Christie (Bbk)  

Session 3: Poland and TOR Studio

2.00pm - 3.30pm

Krzysztof Kieslowski and the Decalogue Series   Dorota Ostrowska (Bbk) 

Session 4: 3.30pm - 5.00pm   German television support for new cinema in the 1970s

Workers, Dreamers and Dandies in the Second German Miracle   Ian Christie

SCREENING 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Film on Four  and experimental TV drama in the UK

The Bad Sister (Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 1983)   Introduced by Laura Mulvey (Bbk)