A few team members (group leader Mónika Dánél as a visitor, Teréz Vincze and Hajnal Király with presentations) attended the annual conference of the Romanian partner, entitled “FIGURATIONS OF INTERMEDIALITY IN FILM,” held between 24-25 October, 2014, at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, the Faculty of Sciences and Arts in Cluj-Napoca. The conference aimed to bring together researchers from all over the world specialized in themes related to intermediality in film in order to discuss questions regarding the rhetoric and poetics of intermediality in film, in general, and regarding the theory and methodology of analysis of the figurations through which the relationship among film and other media can take shape, in particular. About 50 researchers from 20countries attended the two-day event and held lectures on topics such as: the dialoguebetween film and painting, film and sculpture; the art of video installations; old and newexperimental films; the aesthetics of the tableau vivant; connections among image, sound,corporeality and media, based on examples from silent cinema to diverse genres ofcontemporary film. Among these special attention was given to Eastern European films,brought into the focus of attention primarily by the presentations of the members of theinternational cooperation. Teréz Vincze offered an overview of the issue of the body and intermediality in early film theory (in works of Hungarian Béla Balázs, among others), while Hajnal Király held a presentation on intermedial body images of contemporary Hungarian films in a pre-constituded panel with the leader of the Romanian partner team, Agnes Pethő, and team member Katalin Sándor .
The invited keynote speakers of the conference were prominent personalities, authors of volumes which lay the foundations of this scientific domain: Brigitte Peucker, professor at the Yale University, USA, as well as Eivind Røssaak, researcher of the National Library of Norway. This conference provided a great opportunity of meeting and consulting with the partner team, as well as to discuss future projects. The follow up will be an issue of the Acta Sapientia, Film and Media Studies journal dedicated to the best conference papers or/and an independent volume.
See the program: http://film.sapientia.ro/uploads/konferenciak/2014.FigurationsConf.Program.final.pdf