Film Festival Network and the Impact on Global Film Culture (en

Panel: The Future of Shorts – Film Circulation on the International Film Festival Network and the Impact on Global Film Culture (en)

15:15–16:45

The «Film Circulation» project examines how films move through the festival landscape, tracking the circulation of several thousand films after their festival premiere. This collection of data forms the basis for a new method of mapping the festival runs of films. Skadi Loist will present the results of the research project and reveal some of the trends for short films. After the presentation, there will be time to discuss the results, as well as potential follow-up projects and co-operations.

Moderator

John Canciani (SUI), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

John Canciani is the artistic director of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and a programmer at Kino Cameo in Winterthur. He has curated numerous programmes with short and feature films, including Blow-Up, der voyeuristische Blick, Tattoo im Film, Independent Cinema USA: 9/11, Who’s Afraid of the Public?, Heavy Metal, Moving Art II – O Cinema Where Are Thou?, as well as retrospectives of George Mélies, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, H.R. Giger, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Jan Soldat, Kim Ki-duk, Hans-Christian Schmidt, and others. He holds an MAS in curating.

Speaker

Skadi Loist (GER), Filmuniversität Babelsberg

Skadi is Assistant Professor for production cultures in audiovisual media industries at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, Germany, with a research focus on film festivals, circulation and distribution, queer film culture, fair labour, and diversity and sustainability in screen industries. Skadi co-founded the Film Festival Research Network in 2008, has worked with queer film festivals, and is an editorial board member of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies.