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December 8, 2026\u2014December 11, 2026<\/span><\/h4>\n

Visible Evidence XXXII<\/span><\/h1>\n

S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/div>\nOrganizing partners: MAC-USP | ECA-USP | UNICAMP<\/strong><\/span>
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Democracy, audiovisual culture and obsolete media: building archive networks<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n
<\/div>\nIn the second half of the twentieth century, emergent audiovisual culture actively participated in the expansion of democratic practices and horizons. Technologies such as Super 8mm, 16mm cameras with sound, Sony Portapaks, and successive video formats enlarged the realm of possibilities for independent filmmaking\u2014amateur, experimental, documentary, militant, and subjective essay forms. These disruptive formats articulated diversities in virtual public spaces that are now threatened to shrink. Pre-digital, now-obsolete media risk being lost or excluded from contemporary AI-operated digital systems, even though works and tendencies within this heterogeneous repertoire may offer crucial resources for imagining futures under current political and technological constraints.<\/p>\n
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The XXXII Visible Evidence Conference invites reflection on the constitution, connection, and activation of audiovisual archives, and on how they might potentially be constituted otherwise. It seeks to examine how audiovisual archives emerge from different historical, institutional, and geopolitical conditions, especially in relation to the safeguarding of experimental and dissident works. Audiovisual archives are not merely repositories but spaces of meaning production, where memory, history, and cultural practices are articulated. They have shaped poetic strategies, documentary narratives, and essayistic forms depending on the discursive choices of filmmakers and essayistic filmmakers.<\/p>\n

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Debates concerning archives and documentary\u2014understood in expanded terms\u2014are rooted in the very constitution of the field. Some approach the archive through the notion of the trace and the record, recalling that the Greek\u00a0arkh\u0113<\/em>\u00a0simultaneously signifies origin and command. From this perspective, policies of collection, selection, organization, and access foreground how institutional, technological, and political decisions shape visibility while marginalizing other narratives.<\/p>\n

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In this sense, considering experimental film, video art, essay forms, performances, installations, and documentary collections from non-hegemonic and antipodal contexts broadens the understanding of documentary within the media universe. Documentary appears not only as an audiovisual product but as a continuous process traversed by power relations, symbolic disputes, and transformations in regimes of knowledge circulation.<\/p>\n

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Although the conference encourages submissions engaging with these overarching concerns, proposals for panels, individual papers, workshops, and screenings may address any aspect of documentary screen cultures, histories, theories, and practices.<\/p>\n

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For all conference-related inquiries, contact: visiblexxxii@usp.br<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Organizing Committee<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Esther Imp\u00e9rio Hamburger (ECA\/USP; MAC\/USP)
\nFern\u00e3o Pessoa Ramos (IA\/UNICAMP)
\nGilberto Alexandre Sobrinho (IA\/UNICAMP)
\nRubens Arnaldo Rewald (ECA\/USP)
\nFrancisca Mortara Barrera San Martin (ECA\/USP)
\nHanna Henck Dias Esperan\u00e7a (ECA\/USP)
\nLivia Perez de Paula (University of California | University of Oregon)
\nMariana Queen Ifeyinwaeze Nwabasili (ECA\/USP)<\/p>\n

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Scientific Committee<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Andr\u00e9 Guimar\u00e3es Brasil (UFMG)
\nCl\u00e1udia Mesquita (UFMG)
\nCristina Formenti (University of Groningen)
\nDeane Williams (RMIT University)
\nEduardo Victorio Morettin (USP)
\nEsther Imp\u00e9rio Hamburger (USP)
\nFern\u00e3o Pessoa Ramos (UNICAMP)
\nFernanda Mendon\u00e7a Pitta (USP)
\nGilberto Alexandre Sobrinho (UNICAMP)
\nHeloisa Espada Rodrigues Lima (USP)
\nHenri Pierre Arraes de Alencar Gervaiseau (USP)
\nIgn\u00e1cio Del Valle D\u00e1villa (UNICAMP)
\nKristian Feigelson (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III)
\nL\u00edvia Perez (University of California)
\nLeticia Capanema (UFMT)
\nManuela Penafria (Universidade da Beira Interior)
\nMariano Mestman (Universidade de Buenos Aires)
\nMichael Renov (University of Southern California)
\nPatricia Machado (PUC-RJ)
\nPatricia Moran (USP)
\nRafael de Luna Freire (UFF)
\nRenan Chaves (UNICAMP)
\nRubens Arnaldo Rewald (USP)
\nSalom\u00e9 Aguilera Skvrisky (University of Chicago)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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