POWERS OF THE FALSE SYMPOSIUM Panels FRIDAY MAY 18TH PANEL 1 9:30-11:30am Contemporary British Film Cine Lumiere Rob Coley, Janice Kearns, Dean Lockwood: Dreams Never End: Carol Morley’s (Post)-Documentary Fabulation. Kate Rennebohm: False Cinema and True Unknowability: the desperate optimists’ Helen. Maria Walsh: Cinematic Re-enactment in Artists’ Film and Video Richard Couzins: The Authenticity of Voice in The Future’s Getting Old Like the Rest of Us and The Arbor PANEL 2 12:00-1:00pm Doublings Cine Lumiere Trent Griffiths: Who told the first lie? Beyond judgement in Forbidden Lie$ Anna Backman Rogers: The Creative Powers of the False: The Case of the Maysles Brothers ‘Grey Gardens’. PANEL 3 1.45-3:15pm War Cine Lumiere Neli Dobreva: Acting the false, witnessing the truth in Errol Morris’ Standard Operating Procedures William Brown: A rejection of the true/false binarism; or, there is only performance. Markos Hadjiannou: Animating Reality: Waltz with Bashir PANEL 4 3:00-5:00pm Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (Greaves. 1968. 75:00) Petite Salle Followed by Robert Clift: Disrupting Reality: The Productive Possibilities of the False in William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One KEYNOTE 5.00-6.00pm Professor Stella Bruzzi Cine Lumiere SATURDAY MAY 19TH PANEL 5 9:30-11:00am Shaping Reality Cine Lumiere Bill Marshall - Fabulation and Testimony in Two Films by André Téchiné Matt Holtmeier - Catfish and the Crystal-Documentary: Powers of the False and Fabulation in Series Joseph Watson – Paradise Lost and the Ethics of Investigation: the Documented Case of the West Memphis Three. PANEL 6 12:30-2pm Artists’ Moving Image Cine Lumiere Demonstration 50.15 (Anna Lucas. 9.00); Desi're - the Goldstein reels (Romeo Grünfelder. 4.00); Melior Street (extract, Charlotte Ginsborg. 20.00); The Girl with the X-Ray Eyes (Phillip Warnell. 23.00). Followed by chaired discussion. PANEL 7 3:00-4:30pm Faction Petite Salle Sam Ishii-Gonzales: Truth of Fiction: On Deleuze, Kiarostami, and Close-Up Patricia Braz: The power of the false in Pedro Costa’s In Vanda’s Room Florian Mundhenke: Falseness of creativity? The Hybrid Cinematic Approach of Ulrich Seidl. 4:30-6:00pm Close-Up Film Centre hosted drinks forum CLOSING EVENT 6:00pm Dreams of a Life Followed by director Carol Morley in conversation with Libby Saxton. SCREENINGS FRIDAY 18th 12:00pm Who’s Been Framed? (Riete Oord. 1999. 52:00) Petite Salle Cine Lumiere Petite Salle 1:00pm L’Ambassade (Marker. 1973. 22:00) Cine Lumiere 1.45pm Artists’ short films Petite Salle Random Principal (Grünfelder), Seventh Heaven (Lucas), Outlandish Strange Foreign Bodies (Warnell) 3.00pm Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (Greaves. 1968. 75:00) Petite Salle 3.30pm Two Years at Sea (Rivers. 2011. 88:00) Cine Lumiere SATURDAY 19th 9.30am Close-Up (Kiarostami. 1990. 94:00) Petite Salle 11.00am Buried land (Eastwood/Rhodes. 2010. 81:00) Cine Lumiere 11:00am Melior Street (Ginsborg. 2011. 75:00) Petite Salle 6.00pm Dreams of a Life (Morley. 2011. 90:00) Cine Lumiere FRIDAY 18TH CINEMA FRIDAY 18TH BASEMENT 9-9.30 WELCOME COFFEE, REGISTRATION 9.30 – 11.30 PANEL 1: CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CINEMA 11.30 – 12.00 ---------12.001.00 COFFEE 1.00 – 1.45 FILM 2: L’AMBASSADE (22:00) 1.45 – 3.15 PANEL 3: WAR 3.30 – 5.00 Film 4: TWO YEARS AT SEA (88:00) 5.00 – 6.00 7.009.00 --------------------------PANEL 2: DOUBLINGS Film 1: Who’s Been Framed? (52:00) SATURDAY 19TH CINEMA SATURDAY 19TH BASEMENT 9.00 – 9.30 9.30 – 11.00 PANEL 5: SHAPING REALITY COFFEE Film 5: CLOSEUP (94:00) 11.00 – 12.15 Film 6: BURIED LAND (81:00) 12.1512.30 Film 7: Melior Street (75:00) COFFEE 12.30-2 LUNCH Film 3: Artists’ shorts: Random Principal, Seventh Heaven, Outlandish Strange Foreign Bodies PANEL 4/FILM: SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM PANEL 6: ARTISTS MOVING IMAGE 2 – 3.00 --LUNCH 3.00 – 4.30 --- PANEL 7: FACTION STELLA BRUZZI KEYNOTE 4.30 – 6.00 --- CLOSE-UP FORUM AND DRINKS EVENING MEAL 6.00 – 8.00 FILM 8: DREAMS OF A LIFE CAROL MORLEY Q&A WITH LIBBY SAXTON