Building on the successes of the Live Cinema Conference held at King’s College London in 2016, the Live Cinema Summit at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018, and our online event Live Cinema III: The ReOpening in September 2020, we are convening: Live Xinema exploring the role of hybridity and liveness in the future of cinema. You can learn more about previous events here: http://www.livecinemanetwork.org/.

The Xinema in this year’s title reflects the hybrid nature of the event (across platforms) and expresses the sense of a crossroads, of converging and diverging paths of development and innovation.

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.

We are considering three broad themes: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?

The event will open with a Keynote Address by Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development at Royal Shakespeare Company entitled ‘The future of liveness through innovation in performance and its audiences.’

The full programme can be found here:

http://www.livecinemanetwork.org/live-cinema-iv-live-xinema/

Live Xinema IV

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