Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xix, 342 pp.
Contains index
Series: Framing Film Festivals
ISBN 978-3-031-14171-3 (pdf); 978-3-031-14170-6 (print)
CC BY
"This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can't happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution (most often in the forms of digital releases), the festival format appears particularly vulnerable in pandemic times. Imperfect measures, such as the move to a digital format, cannot recapture the communal experience at the very core of festivals. Given the global nature of the pandemic and the diversity of the festival phenomenon, this book features a wide range of case studies and analytical frameworks. With contributors including established scholars and frontline festival workers, the book is conceived as both a theoretical endeavour and a practical exploration of festival organizing in pandemic times." (Publisher description)
1 What Happens When Festivals Can't Happen? / Antoine Damiens and Marijke de Valck, 1
PART I. CONTAMINATED CIRCUITS: COVID-19 AND THE FESTIVAL ECOSYSTEM
2 Stopping the Flow: Film Circulation in the Festival Ecosystem at a Moment of Disruption / Skadi Loist, 17
3 Scarcity, Ubiquity, and the Film Festival After Covid / Brendan Kredell, 41
4 Locating Buzz and Liveness: The Role of Geoblocking and Co-presence in Virtual Film Festivals / Diane Burgess and Kirsten Stevens, 59
5 Film Festivals on the Small Screen: Audiences, Domestic Space, and Everyday Media / James Vail, Theresa Heath, Lesley-Ann Dickson, and Rebecca Finkel, 81
6 Finding Allies in Pandemic Times: Documentary Film Festivals and Streaming Platforms / Aida Vallejo and Christel Taillibert, 101
7 Chilean Film Festivals and Local Audiences: Going Online? / María Paz Peirano and Gonzalo Ramírez, 129
PART II. EXPERIMENTING ON THE FRONTLINES: INNOVATIVE RESPONSES TO THE CRISIS
8 Vidéo de Femmes Dans le Parc: Feminist Rhythms and Festival Times Under Covid / Ylenia Olibet and Alanna Thain, 155
9 Curating Our Own Space: A Conversation on Online Queer Film Exhibition and Adult Queer Cinema / Jenni Olson and Jiz Lee, 177
10 Cinephilia, Publics, Cinegoraphilia: Surveying the Short- Term Effects of Covid-19 on Community-Based Festivals in Toronto / Jonathan Petrychyn, 193
11 Film Festivals in Taiwan: Lurking on the Periphery / Beth Tsai, 211
12 Precarity, Innovation, and Survival in the Indian Film Festival Sector / Tilottama Karlekar, 231
13 Curating as Care: La Semaine de la Critique and the Marrakech International Film Festival in the Age of Covid-19 / Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou, 255
PART III. NEVER WASTE A GOOD CRISIS: (RE)IMAGINING FESTIVALS AFTER THE PANDEMIC
14 Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds / Lindiwe Dovey and Estrella Sendra, 269
15 Festivals, Covid-19, and the Crisis of Archiving / Antoine Damiens, 291
16 Greening Film Festivals / Marijke de Valck and Ger Zielinski, 307
PART I. CONTAMINATED CIRCUITS: COVID-19 AND THE FESTIVAL ECOSYSTEM
2 Stopping the Flow: Film Circulation in the Festival Ecosystem at a Moment of Disruption / Skadi Loist, 17
3 Scarcity, Ubiquity, and the Film Festival After Covid / Brendan Kredell, 41
4 Locating Buzz and Liveness: The Role of Geoblocking and Co-presence in Virtual Film Festivals / Diane Burgess and Kirsten Stevens, 59
5 Film Festivals on the Small Screen: Audiences, Domestic Space, and Everyday Media / James Vail, Theresa Heath, Lesley-Ann Dickson, and Rebecca Finkel, 81
6 Finding Allies in Pandemic Times: Documentary Film Festivals and Streaming Platforms / Aida Vallejo and Christel Taillibert, 101
7 Chilean Film Festivals and Local Audiences: Going Online? / María Paz Peirano and Gonzalo Ramírez, 129
PART II. EXPERIMENTING ON THE FRONTLINES: INNOVATIVE RESPONSES TO THE CRISIS
8 Vidéo de Femmes Dans le Parc: Feminist Rhythms and Festival Times Under Covid / Ylenia Olibet and Alanna Thain, 155
9 Curating Our Own Space: A Conversation on Online Queer Film Exhibition and Adult Queer Cinema / Jenni Olson and Jiz Lee, 177
10 Cinephilia, Publics, Cinegoraphilia: Surveying the Short- Term Effects of Covid-19 on Community-Based Festivals in Toronto / Jonathan Petrychyn, 193
11 Film Festivals in Taiwan: Lurking on the Periphery / Beth Tsai, 211
12 Precarity, Innovation, and Survival in the Indian Film Festival Sector / Tilottama Karlekar, 231
13 Curating as Care: La Semaine de la Critique and the Marrakech International Film Festival in the Age of Covid-19 / Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou, 255
PART III. NEVER WASTE A GOOD CRISIS: (RE)IMAGINING FESTIVALS AFTER THE PANDEMIC
14 Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds / Lindiwe Dovey and Estrella Sendra, 269
15 Festivals, Covid-19, and the Crisis of Archiving / Antoine Damiens, 291
16 Greening Film Festivals / Marijke de Valck and Ger Zielinski, 307
