Crosscuts — The Annual Stockholm Environmental Humanities Festival for Film & Text (2018, 2019)

The Annals of Crosscuts is developed to support the use of film and cinema as integral practices in the critical environmental humanities. We are particularly looking for filmmakers in the arts, sciences and humanities that experiment with and see potential in using the moving image as a complement and/or challenge to text- based research. The aim is to support and develop transmodal scholarship.

This year’s theme is “RUPTURED TIMES”.  RUPTURED TIMES are interstitial spaces where the past is not anymore but the future is still to come. Indeed, these are ruptured times. While globalization promises to unify the world, thousands of fractures open up space and time. New political ambitions fragment the globe and bring us back to times when nationalism reigned. Climate change ruptures the familiar flow of time with chronologies of the past and projections of the future. Activists also try to rupture time and interrupt the usual sequence of events (think of the Standing Rock Camp in the US or ende gelände in Germany). Crosscuts2019 is dedicated to exploring these ruptured times through film, text and discussion.

Peer-review process. The editors of the festival—and our peer-reviewers— will provide structured double blind reviews on your film contribution. Peer-review should here be seen, as in all peer-review, as a possibility of gaining reflection, feedback and engaged critique to which one can respond. We admit that peer-reviewing of film has to be viewed as an experimental process where we learn as we go along on how to deal with knowledge production that is distinct from text-based peer-review. We hope those of you that submit to this first Annals will bear this experimental character of the process in mind. Indeed, by submitting we hope you will participate in the reflection on the process itself as we build this format to further develop and legitimate the use of film as part of research.

Organizer. KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Abstract submission: 22 May 2019 

Send to: jacobvh@kth.se 

Peer-review: June-Sept 2019 

Publication: 22-24 Nov 2019