In the feature article "The environmental footprint of animated realism", Cristina Formenti calls for the introduction of green protocols capable of stimulating production solutions for reducing creative waste and the squandering of resources. #OpenAccess: necsus-ejms.org/the-environmen…

Mingyuan Wan’s ‘Queer Bare Lives’ analyses the Michael Mayer film "Out in the Dark" (2012) to show how it mobilises the conventions of melodrama to present the abjection of its queer protagonist to the state of bare life. #OpenAccess here: necsus-ejms.org/queer-bare-liv…

Interested in writing a #bookreview of "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" by Neil Fox {Bloomsbury Books UK)? Reach out to our section editors Patrícia Nogueira and Victoria Pastor-González: necsus-ejms.org/submit/review-…

Our latest audiovisual essay section on "Sitting, standing, dancing with our screens" – edited by Chloé Galibert-Laîné – explores the bodily experiences and the various ‘carnal thoughts’ that our everyday screens elicit. Read the introduction here: necsus-ejms.org/sitting-standi… #av

In the audiovisual essay "Xena's Body", filmed and edited on an phone’s screen, using native applications, to be viewed in 16:9 ratio, Occitane 🍉 questions the data extractivism that governs period tracking apps. Watch here: necsus-ejms.org/xenas-body/

"Meeting/Eating Meat Joy" by Chloé Lavalette plays with the legacy of feminist performance art, and about how interpreting and translating are always confronted with (sometimes comical and cheerful) failure and betrayal. Watch here: necsus-ejms.org/meeting-eating…

In the #audiovisual essay "the look for sit down", Nicolas Bailleul focuses on the material artifact that often frames the body's encounter with digital media: the chair, and more specifically the gaming chair. Watch here: necsus-ejms.org/the-look-for-s… #av

The final #audiovisual essay in our section on "Sitting, standing, dancing with our screens" – "CORPS CANAPÉ" by morgane frund – imagines two fictional characters texting each other from spaces they can’t fully occupy. Watch here: necsus-ejms.org/corps-canape/

Our Spring 2024_#Open issue – with a special section guest edited by the NECS Open Scholarship Committee – is now also available via the #OpenAccess repository media/rep/ for easier downloading and referencing: mediarep.org/collections/58…

In the #DataPaper "Archiving Europe: Unveiling the visual world through stock shots in French television (2001-2021)", Shiming Shen exploresthe construction of collective imaginary through the media’s repetitive use of images. necsus-ejms.org/archiving-euro…

For our Spring 2024_#Open issue, Toni Pape reviews "InSomnolence: The Sociability of Sleep", curated by Marianne Cloutier, Aleksandra Kaminska, and Alanna Thain and presented at the Agora Hydro-Québec in Montreal. Read the #exhibitionreview here: necsus-ejms.org/insomnolence-t…

The second edition of the Bienal Universitaria de Arte Multimedial (BUAM) invites the audience to think critically about our relationship with screens. Read Annet Dekker's interview with Mexican curator and researcher Doreen A. Ríos here: necsus-ejms.org/liquid-spaces-…

The #festivalreview section of our Spring 2024_#Open issue is dedicated to virtual reality – starting off with Da Ye Kim's historical overview of the emergence of VR at international film festival networks. Read "The two sides of VR utopias" here: necsus-ejms.org/the-two-sides-…

In "Why (film) festivals? Virtual reality experiences at a crossroads’", part of our #festivalreview section on VR, Philippe Bédard considers the limitations of festivals as an exhibition site for the burgeoning medium of VR films. necsus-ejms.org/why-film-festi…

The challenges and advantages of exhibiting VR at festivals: In conversation with Marijke de Valck, Dutch VR artist Nemo Vos discusses his approach to VR and his vision of the role played by film festivals in making VR available. necsus-ejms.org/on-reaching-an…

ONE MORE WEEK to submit your abstract (300 words) for our Spring 2025_#Features – we are interested in feature articles engaging with topics related to film and television, digital media, game studies, media history and more. #CfP here: necsus-ejms.org/necsus-call-fo…

Rounding off the #festivalreview section on VR, Anja Boato interviews LizRosenthal and Michel Reilhac, the curators of the XR section at the Venice International Film Festival La Biennale di Venezia. Read the full interview here: necsus-ejms.org/the-future-of-…

The program for the 23rd NECS Graduate Workshop (29-31 October at Universität zu Köln) is now online: "L/Nightscapes: Perspectives on Illumination and the City" explores the potential of light to map and structure spaces. All details here: necs.org/conference/202…

Are you interested in reviewing the "The Richard Dyer Reader" (Bloomsbury Books UK) – edited by @Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman – for NECSUS_Journal? Then send a message to our book review section editors here: necsus-ejms.org/necsus-call-fo…