Narrative/Non-Narrative/Anti-Narrative Conference
Narrative/Non-Narrative/Anti-Narrative Conference
23rd - 24th November 2008, Watershed
Harbourside, Bristol, UK
From Cathy Come Home to Kate Modern
Narrative in a time of change
Extending the Encounters film festival, The Narrative/Anti-Narrative/Non-Narrative Conference brings experiences from the leading edge of communication, delivered by international experts, including :
Director Ken Loach, whose power with narrative changed the British view of homelessness, and Professor Erik Knudsen, defining how to deliver a cinematic experience on a mobile
Frank Ash, the BBC’s Creative Consultant, creates a new role for the audience as the starting point for ideas. Multiplatform Executive Julian Phillips creates projects where the public are co-creators with the BBC.
Hugh Hancock invented the term “machinima” – the movie that uses a game engine. Grethe Mitchell charts this collision of gaming and film, and the new experiences it creates. Brita Pollmuller creates a new film language with teenagers in Second Life.
Walking through the narrative, artist Duncan Speakman and drama producer Faith Collingwood explore locative media.
Real – virtual - interactive - Hazel Grian writes for Kate Modern, and creates new dramatic forms in Augmented Reality
See some new approaches to feature film stories in FAQs about Time Travel with writer Jamie Mathieson and Better Things with producer Samm Haillay.
What are stories for? Are they escapism, or the purest form of knowledge transfer? What are the new experiences we can offer?
Whatever your background – if you are a communicator, this is for YOU.
Prices: £80.00 / £95.00 with dinner
For further conference details please visit the official website
Conference Schedule
Registration desk, upper foyer, open from 10 a.m. Sunday until 2 p.m. Monday.
Sunday 23rd November
Morning activities:
Opportunity to register and collect information
Encounters Festival Award Winners screening
Digital Viewing Library
Sound trail: Duncan Speakman
12 - 1pm: Registration
1pm: Welcome / Cinema 3
1.30pm Keynote 1 / Cinema 3
2.15-3.00pm Practitioner presentation / Cinema 3
3pm Tea / Delegates' Lounge, W3
3.30-5pm Conference papers: Cinemas 2 and 3
Panel A: Fantasy v. Reality: The extent to which British television drama assumes realism, the ways that fantasy works with realism, what fantasy can do that realism can't.
Panel B: Machinima/Gaming: Examining the language of film as mediated through a technological lens, including the vexing question - is the act of storytelling actually a game in itself?
6 - 8pm Film intro and screening: Watershed
Interview and preview screening with Duane Hopkins, Writer/Director of Better Things.
8.15 Dinner: Bookable through the website / Browns Restaurant
Monday 24th November
9.30 - 10.15am Keynote 2 / Cinema 3
10.15 - 10.45am Coffee / W3
10.45am - 12.15pm Conference papers: Cinemas 2 and 3
Panel A: Co-creativity, the role of the author in co-creative partnerships: Use of websites and the effect on mainstream television drama.
Panel B: Narrative and Experience Design: The influence of technological form on the shaping of narrative experience. The panellists will discuss the emergence of pervasive media and its effect on traditional narrative forms.
12.15 - 1.15pm Lunch W3
1.15 - 2pm Keynote 3 / Cinema 3
2 - 3.30pm Conference papers: / Cinemas 2 and 3
Panel A: Web Drama: How can the web be used a vehicle for sustained narrative form? Are the qualities of a long-form narrative suited to distributed storytelling?
Panel B: Short Film: The panellists examine the effects of digital technology on short film, especially form.
3.30 - 4pm Tea / W3
4pm - 5pm Plenary / Cinema 3
