The NECS Conference, 20-22 June 2013, includes the following papers on amateur cinema studies:
– Eliska Decka – ‘Animate It Yourself! Professional Amateurism in the Production and Distribution of Today’s Independent Animation in New York’
– Aleksandra Sekulic – ‘Low-Fi Video Festivals as Performance of Microcinema and Yugoslav Cine-Amateurism’
– Andrea Mariani – “Fascistically Made”: The Politicization of Amateur Cinema in Fascist Italy’
– Jiří Horníček – ‘The Amateur Film Movement in Czechoslovakia at the Beginning of Communist Dictatorship (1948-1951)’
– Chris Wahl – “Between Private and Professional: The Corporate Film Studio of GDR’s Largest Steel Mill EKO Eisenhüttenstadt (1958-1989)”
– Maria Vinogradova – ‘Amateurs in Demand: Filmmaking Technology, Scarcity and the Making of Soviet Amateur Cinema (1957–1967)’
– Melinda Blos-Jáni – ‘Men with the Movie Camera between 1945 and 1989: Domesticating Moving Image Technology under Communism’
2013 NECS programme.
