This is a call for papers, for a new anthology tentatively titled Renegade Visions: Films and filmmakers that defied popular cinema. The anthology’s aim is to examine independent, experimental, cult, or maligned cinema, across the globe that has gone against the grain of commercial and popular cinema.

I’m looking for critical and scholarly essays, written in an accessible and not overly dry manner, that discuss individual films, directors or topics relating to obscure filmmakers and films that have deliberately defied commercial cinema’s aesthetic approach to filmmaking, thus creating original and challenging cinema. All mediums of cinema will be considered, from feature/short films to animated/documentary features and short films.

I have already collected papers on E. Elias Merhige’s experimental debut film, Begotten, a paper on Klaus Kinski’s flawed, yet beautiful, film Paganini; interviews with Japanese director Go Shibata, Animator Barry Purves and Australian filmmaker Geoffrey Wright.

I am particularly interested in receiving papers on contemporary films or obscure rarities that have sunk into the cinematic abyss, dark and twisted cinematic visions from filmmakers who have rebelled from the system, looking to create a ‘new cinema.’ The films, or filmmakers, discussed should be cutting-edge, weird, obscure, dark, bleak, rebellious, or angry pieces of celluloid shot with flair, passion with an obvious violent streak, or rage, brimming under the surface.

If interested, I recommend that you first send a 300-400 word proposal (or a simple email, in order to check the paper’s suitability)and a short CV outlining your position and any previous writing credits(do not send as an attachment). Submissions and proposals should be sent to:

medwardssubmissions@yahoo.com.

All texts should be in Times New Roman, font size 12 and justified. Please use endnotes, though please refrain from using the endnotes facility on your computer. For notes, please use superscript and number all notes numerically.

Closing date for submissions will be May 30th.

Matthew Edwards is the editor of the anthology Film out of Bounds, which was published in the US by Mcfarland and Co in 2007.