----------------------------Original message---------------------------- A NEW WORLD IMAGE ORDER IS EMERGING. And it is not the one George Bush wanted in 1991. We are looking for submissions for an anthology called TRANSNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES to navigate the multiple relationships between documentaries and the post-cold war world. Old categories linking documentary to the nation have disintegrated. Internationally, documentaries have been reconceptualized and reimained. Generic, psychic and national borders have been crossed. Still, nationalism has erupted, demanding new political and artistic tactics to combat murderous us/them splits. TRANSNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES explores this newly emerging, explosive construct of transnationalism in its visual forms. to deconstruct the complex relationships between political economies andmedia practices, between transnational capital and transnationalized media, detween corporate transnationalism and oppositional transnationalism, between first and third world media, between the nation and some kind of reimagined internationalism for the 21th century, new analytical models and visual strategies are needed. The 1989 Eastern European revolutions, Tiannamen Square in 1989, and the 1991 Gulf War mark a massive reorganization of geopolitics. international economics, the international media landscape, and the nation.Nationalism has escalated both inside and outside our borders. Bosnia, Neo-nazi movements in Germany, anti-immigration ideologies in the U.S. and racialized and gendered discourses have fueled ethnic and racial hatreds unprecedented since W. W. II. Diaspora, exile, immigration, and migration of large populations from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Bosinia, and Asia to the "west" have irrevocably mutated "national identity" into a transnationalized hybridity. A plethora of documentary work from all over the world has erupted in response to these displacements of people and developments of new international rethinking of politics and media: Bosnian support films, Latin American video groups, Fourth World projects, Paper Tiger/Deep Dish, Indian independent film, ew Phillipino Cinema, US/Mexico border video art, the Trans-Voices project in France. TRANSNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES aims to imagine new connections. To forge new alliances to defy murderous nationlism. To remake Borders to create possibilities for social justice. National identites, national borders and nation states no longer explain these new social and aesthetic formations. T. D. argues for imagination and hope in this new world order. Hope us find these new international documentaries. Write an essay. Join us! For further information and proposals to: John Hess & P. R. Zimmermann Dept. of Cinema and Photo. Ithaca College Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-274-3242 Fax: 607-274-1664 Email: [log in to unmask] ---G