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2026 Conference

Conference Schedule ​
DAY 1
Thursday 18 June, Newton Building
10:00-10:30
Introduction from conference organisers ​​
10:30-11:30
Discussion Panel 1
12:00-13:00
Discussion Panel 2​
14:00-16:00
Screening of conference films from Panel 1 and 2
16:30-19:00
Screening of past Festival films and discussion with filmmakers
DAY 2
Friday 19 June, Newton Building
10:00-11:00
Discussion Panel​​ 3
11:30-12:30
Discussion Panel 4
13:30-15:30
Screening of conference films from Panel 3 and 4
16:00-17:00
Discussion with 2026 Festival filmmakers 
17:00-20:00
Drinks reception
Conference screening
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The 2026 INEFF Conference takes place at the University of Salford in Manchester on 18-19 June 2026. 
Newton Building, Peel Park Campus,  University of Salford, 43 Crescent, Salford M5 4WT
Discussion Panel 1
DAY 1, Thursday 18 June, 10:30-11:30 
Cecilia Stenbom​, Northumbria University
Filmmaking from the Inside Out: Self-Documentation and Fiction
Heat (working title) explores domestic cooking as a site of hidden labour and embodied stress, using self-documentation and biometric data to generate a process-led experimental fiction film in which narrative emerges from lived experience.
stenbom_cecilia_2026_ineff_conference.pdf
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Julia Fromm, University of Applied Arts Vienna
CHASM 
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A short film encapsulating the palpability that spans the chasm between art, disability and urban disintegration.
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Jelena Perišić, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick
"What Is It (Not)?" 
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Intertextual/intermedial dialogue between text, film/video, sound, audience, and physical space.
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perisic_jelena_2026_ineff_conference.pdf
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Andy Birtwistle, Canterbury Christ Church University​
Sounding Modernism 
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Sonic Strategies for Experimental Fiction Filmmaking
birtwistle_andy_2026_ineff_conference.pdf
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Discussion Panel 2
DAY 1, Thursday 18 June, 12:00-13:00
Hamideh Javadi, Ulster university 
Pattern: Rituals of Power, Gestures of Resistance—Reconfiguring the Gaze Through Underground Mobile Filmmaking in Iran
​An exploration of underground mobile filmmaking as a counter-hegemonic visual practice that challenges disciplinary power and dominant ritual narratives in contemporary Iran.
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Smaragda Nitsopoulou​
Margins as memory
Suspended traces of life and absence.
nitsopoulou_smaragda_2026_ineff_conference.pdf
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Chiara Bastoni​
A Sun In The Palm
An experimental art film, an abstract, immersive and deep journey into connection through sound and moving image. 
bastoni_chiara_2026_ineff_conference.pdf
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Letícia Simões​, UFRGS - Brazil
Experimental Fiction Filmmaking and the Practice of a Malunga Cinema
​Using the film A Vida Secreta de Meus Três Homens as practice-as-research, this presentation investigates how Black Brazilian women filmmakers mobilise experimental fiction forms to transform historical violence into filmmaking. 
simões_letícia_2026_ineff_conference.pdf
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Andrea Pagnes​, ArtEZ University of the Arts
Melting the Frame 
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Performance-Based Filmmaking as Experimental Fiction and Somatic Knowledge
pagnes_andrea_vestandpage_2026_ineff_conference.pdf
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Discussion Panel 3
DAY 2, Friday 19 June, 10:00-11:00
​​Müge Yildiz, Aalto University, Finland
Non/Living: Experimental Filmmaking with Non-human
​A speculative approach to experimental fiction filmmaking where life, matter, and cinema co-author the moving image
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​Annie Morrad, Yashaen Luckan, University of Lincoln
 "Dialogues: And ontological third space"
This practice forms an equilateral triangle of insight to the audience. 
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​​Topher Maraffi, North Carolina State University
Exploring Gen-AI Tools in a Virtual Production Pipeline
​How we experimented with generative AI tools throughout the virtual production pipeline for worldbuilding, creature performance and visual effects to create the award winning short film Las Fuerzas Extrañas (Strange Forces).
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Martin Jehle​, Philipps-University of Marburg
My Two Cents
​Tinkering on Set as Artistic Research
jehle_martin_2026_ineff_conference.pdf
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L.F.D.P. (Lucia D'Errico and Francesco Pizzzocchero)​, GMPU Kalgenfurt and Mozarteum Salzburg
Ludwig
​A dash cam rapsody 
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Discussion Panel 4
DAY 2, Friday 19 June, 11:30-12:30
Meera Darji​, ​Birmingham City University
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Christine Binnie​​
Jill Westwood​
Menstrual Blood, Synchrony, Coalition and Sensory Research
An exploration of how interdisciplinary artists explore connected themes of menstruation through experimental mediums and practice-based research.
darjibinniewestwood_meerachristinejill_2026_ineff_conference.pdf
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Elinor Rowlands, Nottingham Trent University
Stimming as Experimental Fiction Filmmaking: Autistic Grammar, Sedimented Memory, and Immersive Narrative Without Metaphor 
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Autistic Grammar, Sedimented Memory, and Immersive Narrative Without Metaphor
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Kersti Grunditz and Annika Boholm​
Sisters B. ​
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