Reframing The Monsters Outside: Schedule

Tuesday 18th October 2022:
Opening Night Films and Events - The Electric Cinema, Birmingham
6pm-8pm: Maya (K/KX, UK/Pakistan, 2022)
Separate booking required for theatrical screening. Online screening included as part of the online Delegate and Screening passes for UK audiences.
8.30pm-10.20pm: The Ones You Didn’t Burn (Elise, Finnerty, USA, 2022)
​Separate booking required for theatrical screening.
Wednesday 19th October 2022
Conference Day 1 (Streamed)
10am-10.15pm Welcome from the Cine-Excess Team
10.15am-12pm Panel 1: Rebels and Rulebreakers: Rethinking Cult Cinema Figures and Traditions
Chair:  Daniel Sheppard
  1. Teresa Forde (University of Derby)
    Arnold’s Red Road and Glazer’s Under the Skin: Breaking and Making the Rules of Engagement
  2. Megan Kenny (Sheffield Hallam University)
    Manon’s Monster: An exploration of power, privilege and trauma in The Craft (1996)
  3. Costas Constandinides (University of Cyprus) Rule-breakers, Rule-makers, or None of the Above (?): A critical Examination of the Desktop Horror Phenomenon and its News Media Presentation  
  4. Tugce Kutlu (Ankara University) Here-and-Now in Horror: Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
1pm-2.30pm Panel 2: The Sights and Sounds of Cult Cinema 
Chair: Eugenio Triana
  1. Eloise Ross (Swinburne University of Technology) & Kate Robertson (Independent Scholar)
    Strange bites: sonic cues and the integrated soundtrack in the vampire film
  2. Nikkita Hamar Patterson (University of Iceland) 
    Turn Up the Lights in Here, Noé: Extreme Cinema Roots in the Mainstream Video
  3. Stephen Glynn (DMU)
    David Bowie and Cult Film: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps 
3pm-5pm Panel 3:  Global Traditions of the Cult Image 
Chair: Daniel Sheppard
  1. Syeda Momina Masood (University of Pittsburgh)
    The Women of Pashto Film Industry:  Gender, Stardom, and Cult Cinema in 1990s Pakistan
  2. Kartik Nair (Temple University)
    Cultivating the Archive of Budget Horror
  3. Valeria Villegas Lindvall (University of Gothenburg)
    Delightful Eats: Rethinking the ‘Aesthetics of Hunger’ in Contemporary Brazilian Horror Film
  4. Julie Le Hegarat (Indiana University)
    ​    Going Feral: Cannibal Women of the New French Extremity Redefining Domesticity
The Electric Cinema, Birmingham
8pm-10.30pm: Final Summer (John Isberg, USA, 2022)
Separate booking required for theatrical screening. Online screening included as part of the online Delegate and Screening passes for UK and International audiences.
Thursday 20th October 2022
Conference Day 2 (Streamed)
​10.00am-11.45am Panel 4:  Gendered Rule-Breaking Across Cult Film Research and Pedagogy 
Chair: Amy Harris
  1. Bruna Foletto Lucas (Kingston University)
    Debra Hill: Reclaiming Female Authorship
  2. Daniel Finnemore (University of Coventry) 
    Breaking the Cult of Masculinity: The Other Lamb, Midsommer and Empowerment on Screen
  3. Clelia McElroy (Independent Scholar) 
    “Monstrous Flesh: Women’s Bodies in Horror” – Teaching Horror and Feminism in a Community Education context
  4. Carrie Russpatrick (University of Oslo)
    ​“Vampires. I Hate Vampires”: Rethinking Gender and the Anguish of Transgender Rage in the Reapers of Blade II 
12pm-1pm Keynote: Professor Maisha Wester
Chair: Xavier Mendik
2pm-3.45pm: Panel 5: Cult Auteurs Revisited and Reframed 
Chair:  Costas Constandinides
  1. Émilie von Garan (University of Toronto) 
    The Blind Gaze of the Giallo: Disability and Detection in Dario Argento’s Cinema
  2. Çiçek Üşümezgezer (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul)
    Do Bad Films Go to Hell? Rethinking “Old” Extremity with Doris Wishman
  3. Kate J. Russell (University of Toronto) 
    John Waters’s Scrapbooks and the Cultivation of Cult
  4. Steve Rawle (York St. John University) 
    ​The Absent Cult Auteur: The Disappearance of Ishirō Honda
4pm-5pm: Panel 6: Cine-Excess Special Topic 1 - Production Perspectives 
Chair:  Frank Mannion​
  1. Ariel Baska (Independent Scholar)
    The Films of Amanda Kramer 
  2. Justin Hardy (UCL) & Chris Nunn (University of Birmingham)
    ​The Real Wicker Man: The Obsessions of Robin Hardy, Genre-defying Cult Maverick
​5pm-6 pm Panel 7: The Soska Sisters’ Tales of Terror 2022: 
Chair: Eugenio Triana
The Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham
6.30pm-8.20pm: Daddy’s Girl (Julian Richards, UK 2019)
Separate booking required for theatrical screening.
8.30pm-10.30pm: Guiltless (Kevin Schultz, Canada, 2022)
Separate booking required for theatrical screening. Online screening included as part of the online Delegate and Screening passes for UK and International audiences.
Friday 21st October 2022
Conference Day 3 (Streamed)
10am-11.30 am Panel 8: Loners, Outsiders and Real-Life Monsters
Chair: Teresa Forde​
  1. Sally Christie (Swinburne University)
    Real-life monsters on the Australian screen
  2. David Edwards (The Northern School of Art)
    Redefining the ‘Horror Loner’ in Light of the Worldwide Lockdown
  3. Daniel Tilsley (University of East Anglia)
    "He’s Our Spooksman": Outsiders, Otherness, and Alienation in the Cult Horror Films of William Castle
12.15-1pm: Peter Strickland Q&A with Delegates
2pm-3.45pm Panel 9: Peter Strickland Experimental World Building 
Chair: John Hillman​
  1. Faith Everard (Independent Scholar)
    Silenzio: On the Spectre of Sound in the Films of Peter Strickland
  2. Heidi Ka-Sin Lee (Waseda University, Tokyo)
    The Dialectics of Grey/Burgundy: Pitting Fantasy Against Reality in The Duke of Burgundy 
  3. Nicola McCafferty (Northwestern University)
    In Fabric, Out of Time: Queer Temporalities and Synthetic Femininity
​4pm-5pm Panel 10: Cine-Excess Special Topic 2 - The Films of Ti West  
Chair: Robin Griffiths
  1. Joy C. Schaefer (Independent Scholar)
    We Don’t Even Need the Men: Mrs. Bates, the Monstrous-Feminine, and Rape Revenge in Ti West’s X (2022)
  2. Shellie McMurdo (University of Hertfordshire)
    The Vice Guide to Jonestown: The Sacrament and the Post-Allegorical Moment
5pm-5.20pm Conference Close
7pm-10pm Cine-Excess 2022 Innovator of Horror Award for Peter Strickland and Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)​ - The Electric Cinema, Birmingham
​​Separate booking required for theatrical screening.
9pm Bliss of Evil (Joshua Morris, Australia, 2022)
Saturday 22nd October 2022
Cine-Excess at the MAC Birmingham
2pm-4pm New Religion (Keishi Kondo, Japan, 2022)
Cine-Excess 16 delegate passes will be accepted at MAC Birmingham for this screening.
5pm-7.45pm: Live Q&A with director Peter Strickland and Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland, UK, 2022)
​Cine-Excess 16 delegate passes will be accepted at MAC Birmingham for this screening.
​8.30pm-10.45pm Live streamed Q&A with director Ti West and X ​(Ti West​, USA, 2022)
​Cine-Excess 16 delegate passes will be accepted at MAC Birmingham for this screening.
Sunday 23rd October 2022
Chill Out Sunday - Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham
​A selection of further Cine-Excess 16 UK premieres and exclusive screenings for those film fans who like their Sunday chill outs to be chilling.
4.30pm-6.45pm: The Winter Hunger (Alvaro Garcia Gutierrez, Spain, 2021)
Separate booking required for theatrical screening. Online screening included as part of the online Delegate and Screening passes for UK and International audiences.
5pm-6.30pm: Brightwood (Dane Elcar, USA, 2022)
​Separate booking required for theatrical screening. Online screening included as part of the online Delegate and Screening passes for UK and International audiences.
7pm-8.45pm: Alchemy of the Spirit (Steve Balderson, USA, 2022)
Separate booking required for theatrical screening. Online screening included as part of the online Delegate and Screening passes for UK audiences.
7pm-8.45pm: The Third Saturday in October (Jay Burleson, USA, 2022)
​Separate booking required for theatrical screening. Online screening included as part of the online Delegate and Screening passes for UK and International audiences.
9pm-11.10pm: Pig Killer (Chad Ferrin, Canada, 2022)
Separate booking required for theatrical screening. Online screening included as part of the online Delegate and Screening passes for UK audiences.