Featuring more than thirty practitioners and scholars of videographic criticism, this two-day Zoom symposium will dedicate day 1 to interrogating the affordances and knowledge claims of three distinctive modes of videographic practice in panels dedicated to the desktop documentary, the personal exploration, and parametric/deformative approaches. On  day 2, all participants will be invited to define and debate the key issues for the development of videographic criticism in parallel workshops, and a closing roundtable will recapitulate the symposium findings and set out themes and questions to be considered at future events. The symposium will feature emerging as well as established voices in order to build networks and to expand the community of videographic practitioners, and is run over two days to work for as many time zones as possible.

The symposium is co-organised by Maria Hofmann (film scholar and video essayist), Kathleen Loock (Leibniz University Hannover) and Alan O’Leary (Aarhus University). 

The symposium is supported by the Department of Media and Journalism Studies and the Cultural Transformations research programme at Aarhus University and by Leibniz University Hannover. It forms part of the activities of the Filmmaking Research, Academic Film and Videographic Criticism research unit in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus.

Symposium poster by Maria Hofmann.  

Student assistants

Alissa Lienhard and Lida Shams-Mostofi (Leibniz University Hannover). 

Technical assistance

The co-organisers are grateful to Sidse Prehn Thomsen and Radomir Gluhovic (Aarhus) for technical support.