[Reader-list] Call for papers Deep Focus

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Call for papers Deep Focus

"I think of theory as a practice that changes your life entirely because it acts on your conscience. Of course, theory becomes a mere accessory to practice when it speaks from a safe place, while practice merely illustrates theory when the relationship between the two remains one of domination-submission and of totalization. I see theory as a constant questioning of the framing of consciousness-a practice capable of informing another practice, such as film production, in a reciprocal challenge. "

-Trinh T. Minh-Ha in an interview with Scott Mc Donald in November 1989. *

 

Deep Focus a film quarterly, has evolved over the past 20 years as a serious film journal that recognizes cinema as the most potent form of expression to emerge in our times. The effort has been to understand as well as critique our immediate reality, the experience of the everyday, the existing structures and values by a reading, an interpretation and an understanding of popular films and films by cinema's masters.  

We invite papers for our 2003 general issue, which we would like to publish before the International Film Festival of India (October 2003) where it will be displayed and where we meet one another. Our next issue (slated for Jan-Feb 2004) however, would be a thematic issue focusing on war crimes, representation of war in cinema in postmodern times and its re-coloniality. For the general issue we would like to invite papers:

     i.                    Articles:                 ranging from 3,000-10,000 words

ii.                 Film reviews:       1,000 words +

iii.               Interviews with film directors, film makers 

iv.               Reports on film festivals, or seminars on films

v.                  Book Reviews

Language: Deep Focus hopes to employ a language of cinema that is humanistic in its critique. The mixing of different modes of writing; the mutual challenge of theoretical and poetical, discursive and "non-discursive" languages, the strategic use of archetypal imageries in exposing stereotypical thinking. 

Deadline: 15th August 2003.

Perhaps it is evident why we choose Sarai Readers List to issue our call for papers. We are looking for a space that speaks a language of cinema that is familiar to our lives. So please send us your papers to the following: 

No. 33/1-9 and 1-10, Thyagaraj Layout, Jai Bharathi Nagar, 
Maruthi Sevanagar P.O., Bangalore - 560 033. 

Ph: 5492774, 549277

E-mail: bfs at bgl.vsnl.net.in  

*Framer Framed (1992) Trinh T. Minh-Ha; Routledge:New York and London

Regards

Shireen

Deep Focus/Bangalore Film Society

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