Symposium II

The Alchemical Landscape II:

Screen Media, Occulture and the Geographic Turn

Girton College, University of Cambridge

7^th July, 2016.

Image: James Riley

Following the success of our first symposium we are pleased to announce The Alchemical Landscape II. This second event will focus on occultural visions of the landscape across film, television, video and associated media.

We will be presenting a programme featuring a wide range of excellent speakers: academics, writers, artists, film-makers. We will also be welcoming Jo Melvin (Chelsea College of Art) and Marc Atkins & Rod Mengham (Sounding Pole Films) to deliver keynote addresses.  

Do join us for what promises to be a fascinating day of talks and discussion. 

Tickets are £39 and can be purchased via PayPal. See our Tickets page for more details.  

Further documentation relating to the first symposium can be found here, here and here. 

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The Alchemical Landscape II

Programme

Chair: Yvonne Salmon 

Click on paper titles for further information 

  

9.30-10.30: Registration (with tea, coffee and refreshments)

Stanley Library

10.30-11.30 Keynote Session 1

Old Hall

           

Jo Melvin (Chelsea College of Arts)

Double Exposure: ’pataphysics and the Rural in Barry Flanagan’s Sculptural Practice

11.30-11.45: Break

Stanley Library

11.45-1.15 Panel Session 1: Fields and Gardens

Old Hall

Lewis Wynn (University of Cambridge)

The Visual Occulture of Left Fields: Reclaiming the Radical History of Fields in Contemporary English Film

Adam Scovell (Goldsmiths / Celluloid Wicker Man)

Rurality in the Films of David Gladwell

Liberty Rowley (Four Feet Films)

Microgeography and an Exploration of the Magic that can be Found at the Bottom of the Garden

1.15-2.15: Lunch

Stanley Library

2.15-3.45: Panel Session 2: Strange Folk

Old Hall

Harry Baker, (London Film School)

Folk Horror and the Mythic Cycle

Gary Parsons (University of East London)

British Witchcraft Documentaries of the 1970s and their Relation to Landscape and Culture

Christopher Josiffe (Independent Researcher)

The Dalby Spook in his Landscape: Gef the Talking Mongoose

(Un) remembered

3.45-4.15: Break (tea, coffee and biscuits)

Stanley Library

4.15- 5.45: Session 3: Special Projects

Old Hall

Andy Paciorek (Wyrd Harvest Press)

Darren Charles (Unearthing Forgotten Horrors)

The Folk Horror Revival

Andy Sharp (English Heretic)
Video Anxieties

5.45-6.00: Break

Stanley Library

6.00-7.00: Keynote Session 2

Old Hall

           

Marc Atkins and Rod Mengham (Sounding Pole Films)

The Fields of England

7.00: Close of Event