Breaking the frame: resisting technology in the digital age

Following the success of CRASSH’s anniversary film festival in 2021, we are delighted to announce the 2022 film festival.

Submission of feature films, documentaries and experimental art films that engage with resistance to digital technology and ideas for alternatives to the current digital monopoly system are now welcome. Successful submissions will be shown at the film festival in the autumn of 2022.

We are keen to engage a broader audience in a dialogue about the neo-luddites, non-believers and critical minds that reject today’s technological fantasies to imagine a better world without the all-powerful techno monopolies that have privatised our communication, desires, and everyday lives. While most recent tech critique ends up with suggestions on regulation, in this film festival we would want to explore creatively two other modes of critical engagement with technology that sometimes go together with regulation but often go far beyond it: resistance and recoding.
What have been the key recent and not-so-recent thinkers and activist movements to resist computational capitalism? Who inspires neo-luddites, strike leaders, and free software champions? What are their principles? And equally importantly: how do they fight to achieve their goals? Is there an AI underground?

• Theme: Breaking the frame: resisting technology in the digital age

• When: The film festival will take place in autumn 2022

• Where: The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)

• Submission deadline: 15 July 2022

• Cost: submission is free

•      Format for submission: Please supply a link to Youtube/Vimeo/website where the film can be viewed online.

•      Format for screening: Films should be supplied in an MP4 container in either 16:9, 16:10 or 4:3 ratio, this
       includes material that has been converted from analogue film.

• Notification date: 1 September 2022

• Questions? Email enquiries@crassh.cam.ac.uk