New World Picture 5: Varda, Solomon, Citron, Jacobs, Schneeman, Wisconsin Death Trip,

Image from Innocence and Despair (Phil Solomon, 2001). Experience Solomon's video at World Picture Journal 5: Sustainability

Film Studies For Free is a longstanding and ardent supporter of the online journal World Picture. Today, FSFF is thrilled to bring you news of the latest issue (no. 5) on Sustainability which has just gone online. There are plenty of wonderful film-related items, as usual, as well as some timely and important essays and interviews on sustainability from a number of other key perspectives for the Arts and Humanities.

Great work, WP!

Below, you can find the issue's  table of contents, and below that you can find the call for papers for the next World Picture conference, this time in Toronto, so do please scroll down for those.

Table of Contents

• Eugenie Brinkema Burn. Object. If.

• Tina di Carlo  Excess Sustainability, Sustainable Excess: A Dossier of Statements on Architecture and Sustainability Statements by Stefano Harney, Geoffrey West, Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Inaba, Bjarke Ingels, and Tomas Saraceno

• Michelle Citron in conversation with Brian Price and Meghan Sutherland The Ambiguous Archive

• Alexander García Düttmann The Life and Death of the University

• Ken Jacobs 3D is Intoxicating and Three 3D Poems: Lulu in Hollywood, Routine, The Story of a Devoted Couple

• Jennifer Johung Sustainably Dependent: Bio-Architectural Living Spaces

• Maebh Long The Hedgehog and Lord Browne: The “To Come” of the Humanities

• Ian MacKaye in conversation with Brian Price Records

• Timothy Morton Unsustaining

• Karen Pinkus and Cameron Tonkinwise Want Not: A Dialogue on Sustainability with Images

• Rebekah Rutkoff The Splatter Technique: An Interior Dialogue Between the Narrator and Carolee Schneeman

• Phil Solomon Innocence and Despair (2001): A Decade Later

• Allan Stoekl Agnès Varda and the Limits of Gleaning

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2011 World Picture Conference 
October 21-22 University of Toronto 
Lorenz Engell, Bauhaus University, Weimar Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University

The annual World Picture Conference gathers scholars from a range of different disciplines to address the relation between critical theory, philosophy, and aesthetics. For this year’s meeting we welcome papers on questions of distance. Such considerations might include (but are in no sense limited to):  

• Distance and mediation (technological and otherwise) 
• Distance as abstraction (or alienation, estrangement) 
• Travel Simultaneity
• Spatial allegories of distance
• Vision (as the prime sense organ of distance)
• Modes of translation
• Geopolitics (of distance)
• Distance and/as interval (distance as time, not just space) 
• Distance and unknowing/ignorance 
• Critique of proximity/propinquity 
• Ecology and distance (global footprints, carbon calculations, etc.) 
• Scale Emotion Critical distance/objectivity

Please submit proposals (250 words, plus brief bio) by June 17 to: brian.price@utoronto.ca