The festival will take place over three days from the 21st - 23rd September and will feature cutting edge academic research, master classes, workshops, a programme of screenings, panels, Q & A sessions and world premieres of exclusive live events. Tickets and passes will be available from 8th August. Take a look at the programme here.
The conference considers three broad areas of enquiry:
The first is the theme of 'found and lost audiences': during the Global Covid-19 pandemic, many artists, performers and venues turned to online presentation as a necessity to continue their work, and consequently while local audiences often shrunk, global audiences, even for local performances, expanded greatly.
The second is new definitions of liveness and presence: this same period saw the intensification of practices of collective or simultaneous viewing or experiencing films or other performances. Since the reopening and the end of social distancing measures we have seen a return to and an exponential growth in live immersive experiences.
The third is the adoption of new technologies of participation: spanning the use of mobile devices in auditoria to the full-blown immersion in virtual environments. What novel aesthetics, experiences, practices have emerged, how are these shaping audience expectations and discourses of the future of live and screen-based entertainment?
As the world returns to a new normal, what lessons are there to learn? From increasing access physically, socially and financially, to forcing engagement with new technologies, the response to the pandemic shifted working practices, the question we are left with is whether they will simply shift back, or readjust once more to a new model of hybridity that preserves and enhances the best of both worlds.
To reflect on these issues, Live Xinema 2022 will take place in hybrid form, as a physical event at Broadway Cinema Nottingham, and in a new 3D virtual events platform called bubbles. Live Xinema 2022 will address artistic and technological advances in the field of live cinema, and film screenings augmented through live or immersive elements, including site-specific locations, technological intervention and digital participation.