Permeable Walls and Insurmountable Barriers

27th-29th August

CONFERENCE VENUE: HOTEL SAVOIA EXCELSIOR PALACE, Riva del Mandracchio, 4, 34124 Trieste TS

Trieste

Conference Theme:

Permeable Walls and Insurmountable Barriers

Short Film Festival Theme:

Walls and Barriers in the Re-Mediation from/of heterogeneous materials.

Organised by:

Associazione Culturale Bucanevis, APS Stadt, APS Hart Lab, The Bournemouth Film School (BFS), Arts University Bournemouth, and the Laboratory for Semiotics, Ethnosemiotics, Nonfictional Studies and Audiovisuality (SENSA Lab), University College Cork.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

27th August 2025

10:00 – 10:30: Registration

10:30 – 11:30: Welcome and Opening of the Works

11:30 -12:30 : Keynote – Professor Laura Rascaroli

12:30 – 14:00: Lunch Break (free time for the delegate to have lunch independently)

14:00 – 15:30: First Panel – The Walls of Home

V Domou/In the Home – Dr John Podpadec (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
Film Screening: V Domou (John Podpadec)
Lost in Perpetuity: The Anxiety of Historical Transmission of Women Lived Experience in Shoah: Four Sisters – Dr Marija Ratković (The University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia)

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee/Refreshments Break (Delegates only)

16:00 – 17:30: Second Panel – Borders Crossing

Borders Crossing, Transnational Solidarity and Activism in the Desktop Film – Dr Clelia Clini (London Metropolitan University, UK)
Film and Social Semiotics – Mgr. Marianna Abrahamyan (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Problematizing the Visualization of Migration Images to Reflect on Migrants’ Dehumanization – Dr Lourdes Monterrubio Ibanez (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)(online)

18:00 – 20:00: Festival – Screening

28th August 2025

09:30 – 10:00: Registration

10:00 – 12:30: First Panel – Walls Within

Walls Within: An Interactive Territorial Study on Urban Spaces (Leeds, UK) – Dr Stefano Odorico and Dr Ilaria Vecchi (Technological University of the Shannon, TUS, Ireland)
Making-Undoing: On Constraint, Transgression and Cinematic Thought – Dr Julia Machado (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Le Pupille: Shot but not shorn – Dr Francesca Hardy (Nottingham Trent University, UK).
Memories of Permeable Walls and Unsurmountable Barriers – Dr. Romana Turina (Arts University Bournemouth, UK)

FREE AFTERNOON TO ENJOY TRIESTE!!

18:00 – 19:30: Festival – Screening

20:00: Conference Dinner – Hotel Savoia Excelsior Palace

29th August 2025

09:30 – 10:00: Registration

10:00 – 12:00: First Panel – Unveiling the Invisible

Unveiling the Invisible: Psychological Barriers and Female Desire in Lipstick Under My Burkha – Dr Sneha Singh (Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany)(online)

Crossing the Lakshman Rekha: Spectral Boundaries and Gendered Barriers in Indian Cinema – Dr Rupinder Singh (Independent Scholar)(online)

Between the Visible and the Invisible: Poetic Figures of the Unrepresentable in the Screenplay and Film Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978) by Chantal Akerman – Pauline Sarrazy (University of Montréal, Canada) (online)

12:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break (free time for the delegate to have lunch independently)

14:00 – 15:30: Closing Round Table (All delegates)

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee/Refreshments Break (Delegates only)

16:00 – 16:30: Goodbyes

END of the Conference and Festival

Festival

Keynote Film

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls (Can Candan 2000)

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls, is a trilingual (Turkish, German, English) documentary about a moment in the recent history of the largest minority in re-unified, post-Wall Berlin, the immigrant community from Turkey, as witnessed by a Turkish filmmaker from the United States. In the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of the two Germanys, 1991 was the year when anti-foreigner violence in Germany was becoming too visible to ignore. 1991 was also the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the migration from Turkey to Germany. In this film, immigrants from Turkey talk about their past, present, and possible future, reflecting on what the opening of the Wall and the unification of the two Germanys meant for them and how increasing hostilities are affecting their sense of belonging in the new Germany. Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls, is the view from the periphery by a filmmaker who is simultaneously an insider and an outsider.