[Nettime-bold] CALL for SUBTITLES

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

SUBTITLES: writings on the foreignness of film
issue editors: IAN BALFOUR and ATOM EGOYAN

subtitles@alphabet-city.org

deadline for submissions: fall 2001

www.alphabet-city.org


Alphabet City is soliciting projects that explore the idea and the
actuality of the foreignness of film. We take it that film now operates in
a more or less global environment, in which issues of translation come to
the fore. Every film is, for some audience or another, a foreign film, and
perhaps not only in terms of language. We want to think collectively about
the foreignness of film, its historical and not-so-natural character. The
current moment of flux in film's status in relation to TV, video, internet
transmission, et. al. offers an occasion to make sense of film's
transformed and transforming character. The presence of subtitles-a
doubling of words and of word as image-will serve as a point of departure
for thinking about what is more broadly at work and at play in the
imbrication of word and image in the always potentially foreign film.

Alphabet City is a book series produced by an international collective of
editors, contributors, and designers formed in 1991. The collective is
dedicated, in its anthologies, to combining theory, literature, and
politics with the work of artists and architects. Over the past ten years
Alphabet City has demonstrated how collaboration, thoughtful design, and
critical engagement can create a new kind of publication that articulates
fresh possibilities for reflection in a time of rapid global change.
Alphabet City's editorial collective is distinguished not only by its
presentation of the highest quality contemporary literature, essays,
photography, art, and architecture, but also by its commitment to design
principles that have earned it high praise and awards.

Since 1991, Alphabet City has published the work of the following, among
many others: Stan Allen, Ian Balfour, Georges Bataille, Stephen Andrews,
Étienne Balibar, Maurice Blanchot, Christian Boltanski, Svetlana Boym,
Catherine Bush, Massimo Cacciari, Eduardo Cadava, Rebecca Comay, Drucilla
Cornell, Lynn Crosbie, Jacques Derrida, Atom Egoyan, Deborah Esch, Nuruddin
Farah, John Greyson, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Thomas Keenan, Julia Kristeva,
Laura Kurgan, Alphonso Lingis, Detlef Mertens, Farshid Moussavi, Sherin
Neshat, Fernando Pessoa, Nino Ricci, Bruce Robbins, Andrew Ross, Saskia
Sassen, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Virilio, Krzysztof Wodiczko,
Slavoj Zizek.


previous volumes:

Reading Gulf War TV (no. 1, 1991)
Nations and Nationalisms (no. 2, 1992)
States of Culture (no. 3, 1994)
Fascism and its Ghosts (nos. 4/5, 1996)
Open City (no. 6, 1998)
Social Insecurity (no. 7, 2000)
volumes in development:
Lost in the Archives (no. 8)
Rebecca Comay, issue editor
Subtitles: Writings on the Foreignness of Film (no. 9)

Ian Balfour and Atom Egoyan, issue editors
Alphabet City welcomes submissions by email in plain text, rich text format
(rtf), and portable document format (pdf).

Alphabet City
313 Richmond Street East, Suite PH59
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 4S7
www.alphabet-city.org


editor: John Knechtel
art director: Gilbert Li
managing editor: Julija Sukys
chair, fundraising committee: Janna Graham
editorial board: Ian Balfour, Rebecca Comay, John Knechtel


the following institutions have provided support for Alphabet City:

Art Gallery of Ontario
Canada Council
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Connaught Foundation, University of Toronto
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
Graham Foundation, Chicago
Ontario Arts Council




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