Activism, Film and Media Working Group
The IIPPE Activism, Film and Media working group provides a platform through which academics, activists, filmmakers and artists who are working for a more just and equal world can meet, share and discuss their work and establish collaborations. This working group organises a programme that runs in parallel with the academic conference and is open to a variety of formats, including film screenings, discussions, performances or more conventional academic papers. The Activism, Film and Media working group presesnts projects and initiatives that offer a critical engagement with economics, capitalism and politics more broadly. This includes but is not limited to ecological, decolonial, feminist, labour, antiracist, migrant and marginalised perspectives.
Call for Activist Presentations, Documentary Films and Artist Talks
2025 IIPPE Annual Conference
17–20 September, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye
Immigration: Crisis of the World Capitalist System, Crisis for the World Capitalist System
The Activism, Film and Media working group at the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) is inviting submissions of activist presentations, documentary films and artist talks for our annual conference.
IIPPE is one of the largest international networks of heterodox political economists with a critical approach to neoliberal capitalism. The IIPPE Activism, Film and Media working group provides a platform through which academics, activists, filmmakers and artists who are working for a more just and equal world can meet, share and discuss their work and establish collaborations.
The Activism, Film and Media programme runs in parallel with the academic conference and is open to a variety of formats, including film screenings, discussions, performances or more conventional academic papers. We are looking for projects and initiatives that offer a critical engagement with economics, capitalism and politics more broadly. This includes but is not limited to ecological, decolonial, feminist, labour, antiracist and marginalised perspectives, and we particularly encourage contributions relating to the conference theme of migration.
Documentary filmmakers and video artists are invited to submit work of up to 90 minutes duration, to be screened followed by a discussion. Please include a preview link with your abstract. Activist presentations or workshops may be of a similar duration. Films which do not have English as their main language must have English subtitles.
Work will be screened as a digital video file, and the creator of the work or a representative with significant involvement in research or production must be present for the discussion session. We also strongly encourage contributors from outside Europe to participate, for whom we will make a number of slots for virtual presentations available.
Please submit your proposal by 1 February. Further information and the submission link can be found at https://iippe.org.
If you have any questions, please contact activism.film.media@gmail.com.
There are no conference fees for Committee on Activism presenters, but presenters will need to pay the IIPPE membership fee of €30, and will be able to join the lunches and the conference dinner with an additional €50.
We hope to see you in September.
IIPPE Activism, Film and Media working group
Members
Kirsten Adkins
I am an artist, filmmaker and writer with a professional background as a producer and director in broadcast television. My current work uses experimental film practice to provoke new conversations on concepts of home, place and belonging in times of war. I have received funded commissions for research publications, exhibitions and broadcasts, which I have screened, and published nationally and internationally. I currently teach and research experimental filmmaking and artists moving image at The University of Glasgow.
Jill Daniels
Jill Daniels is a filmmaker, writer and political activist. Her innovative documentary essay films explore memory, place, identity and autobiography. She has won many international film festival awards for her films, including best protagonist award at ProToPost – Communism Film Festival in Italy, for her film Resisters, where she explored the rise of the nationalist AfD and the fight against it by Grandmothers Against the Right in Berlin. She has presented at IIPPE conferences and is a long-standing member of the activist organising committee. She teaches at the University of East London and is co-chair of the editorial board of the journal Media Practice and Education. Her website is www.jilldanielsfilms.com.
Matthias Kispert
Matthias Kispert is an artist, researcher and educator with an interest in the intersections of art, politics and activism. He is a co-founding editor of Hyphen Journal and assistant editor at the Moving Image and Art Review Journal (MIRAJ). Alongside his current work, he also has a history as an electronic music composer and performer with the media artist collective D-Fuse. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster and Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts London, and is convening the Radical Film Network as well as the Activism, Film and Media working group for the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE).
Karl Ingar Røys
Karl Ingar Røys is an artist and filmmaker from Volda, based between Oslo, Bangkok and Berlin. His practice consists of creating different platforms for speculation, knowledge building and exchange. Karl Ingar Røys studied Law at the Arctic University of Norway – UiT, Critical Fine Art Practice at St. Martins College of Art & Design in London and Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen where he researched the role of cultural activism in transitional societies.
Nathaniel Sullivan
Nathaniel Sullivan is a creative non-fiction artist, based in New York City. He makes video, multimedia lecture performances and site-specific guided tours that combine facts with speculative ideas in order to explore the roots of power and social control. He has exhibited in festivals, galleries and alternative art spaces, most recently a networked performance and installation at FilmWinter 36 in Stuttgart, Germany, a screening at Code+ in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in a program of video art at Documenta 14. He holds a BFA in Film from Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Art Video/Transmedia from Syracuse University. He currently teaches at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York.