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Annabelle Honess Roe <[log in to unmask]>
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Due to a last minute drop-out, we are looking for another presenter  
for our panel at Visible Evidence in Lincoln this August.  You can  
find the proposal below, and we are open to wide interpretations of  
the panel topic.  Feel free to email me ([log in to unmask]) and/or my co- 
panelist Patrick Sjoberg ([log in to unmask]) with any questions or  
to discuss paper ideas.  Due to this being somewhat last-minute, we  
are looking to receive proposals as soon as possible - ideally by 31st  
May at the latest.
You can find more information about the Visible Evidence conference  
here: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/conferences/visibleevidence/index.htm

Abstraction Absence Animation: Documentary and the Limits of the  
Figurative
Chair: Patrik Sjöberg, PhD, Karlstad University

Throughout the history of documentary film, directors have been coping  
and compensating for a lack of material, visual as well as acoustic.  
This has not only lead to a wide range of conventions for dealing with  
this substantive absence, (for example, all the ways in which  
compilation film uses archive material to compensate for the lack of  
original filmed material, or the way identities are hidden in  
interview sequences), but is has furthermore functioned as a creative  
obstacle for documentarists to push the boundaries of what is  
representable within the framework of documentary media (think of  
Errol Morris’ Thin Blue Line (1988), Jill Godmilow’s Far From Poland  
(1984) or the Channel 4 series Animated Minds (2003)). This panel  
wishes to discuss the ways in which documentary media negotiates this  
tension - between the need to represent and the inability to properly  
do so. This not only includes the lack of footage from an event, but  
also the difficulties involved in the representation of statistics and  
complex processes, emotional states of individuals, general tendencies  
within a culture, the passage of time, or philosophical and political  
assertions. 
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