Conference Speakers

Name Affiliation Paper
Dragan Batančev Concordia University The Shots That Shook the World: Cinematic Visions of the 1914 Sarajevo Assassination
Alix Beeston Cardiff University “Kathleen Collins, Posthumously”
Michael Chanan University of Roehampton A Tempest in Cuba
Shelly Cobb University of Southampton Keynote
Sebastian Cody Open Media Gerry Adams Unmade: A Cast Study from Channel 4 Television
Jason Collins The City University of New York Tessa’s Europa: The Surreal Language of a Film Made for Print
John Cook “A Kind of Avant-Garde Citizen Kane” – Peter Watkins’ Unproduced Masterwork, ‘August Strindberg’ (1981)
Hanja Daemon King’s College London Shadow Cinema in Post-War Austria
Mateja Djedovic Academy of Arts, Novi Sad Lt. Columbo and Case Studies of Ageism in Hollywood
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein University of Bristol “Muriel Rukeyser’s Unfinished Films”
James Fenwick Sheffield Hallam University Shadow Cinema and Archival Research: A Case Study of Kirk Douglas and the Scale of Overdevelopment of Unproduced Films
Camila Augusta Pires de Figueiredo Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Henson and Juhl’s Tale of Sand: from unmade film to illustrated screenplay and graphic novel
Kieran Foster De Montfort University Send for Vampirella: Tales from The Hammer Script Archive
Ken Fox Canterbury Christ Church University Paddy the Cope, Michael Powell and the story of the unmade film
Kevin Fullerton University of Dundee Nijinksy: Lost interpretations of the Russian dancer
Monika Gagnon Concordia University Posthumous Cinema: Unmade Films in the Archives
Stephen Glynn De Montfort University From Teddybears to Tolkein: The Beatles’ Phantom Filmography
Hannah Hamad Cardiff University The Movie Producer, the Feminists and the Serial Killer: UK Feminist Activism, Misogynist 70s Film Culture and the (non) Filming of the Yorkshire Ripper Murders
Azza El-Hassan Sheffield Hallam University When the Image of Rasputin Deconstructed the Image of Mohammad: The film about Prophet Mohammad that was never made
Chris Horn University of Leicester From Nashville to Norfolk: Robert Altman’s Unmade 1980s Projects
Brian Hoyle University of Dundee Lawrence of Arabia
James Jarrett Colchester Institute
Peter Krämer De Montfort University Getting Ready for Hollywood: Stanley Kubrick’s Early Career, 1944-1955
Stella Louis University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée Alain Resnais and Stan Lee: The ‘Amazing’ and ‘Uncanny’ Collaboration which never works
Caitlin McDonald University of Dundee Unmade films of Emeric Pressburger
Matt Melia Kingston University Surveying Ken Russell’s Unmade Film Projects
Raita Merivirta University of Turku From Evergreen to Michael Collins: The Unmade Versions of Neil Jordan’s Screenplay
Eric Monder New York Lost Cinema
Georgina Orgill University of the Arts London Unused Kubrick Footage
Cristian Pasotti University of Luzern The Structure that Wants to Be Another Structure: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Screenplays between the Unfinished and the Exploitation
Luca Peretti Ohio State University Integrating unmade films into Italian cinema history
Lawrence Ratna Independent Kubrick
Isabel Seguí University of St. Andrews “Unfulfilled: Feature Fiction Films by Women Political Filmmakers in the Andes”
Justin Smith De Montfort University
Matthew Solomon and Emily Day University of Michigan Recontextualizing a Lost Film: The Big City (1928), A Study in Contrasts
Andrew Spicer University of the West of England Keynote
Claire Thomson University College London Index cards and indexicality: Carl Th. Dreyer and the historical (unmade) film
Filippo Ulivieri Independent “I felt I had been hired by an extremely rich eccentric with superpowers to play in his nursery with his collection of toys.” – Ian Watson and the writing of Stanley Kubrick’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Ana Weinberg De Montfort University The Musketeers We Were Promised: Andrew Davies, Dumas, and Production Contexts
Fiona Wheeler Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne Seeing the Research Value of Screenplays
Melanie Williams University of East Anglia “She had all the talent and we let her go”: Shelagh Delaney and unmade films

 
Michael Witt University of Roehampton Jean-Luc Godard and Bérénice