Live Cinema Conference (2016)

• Main Authors: Sarah Atkinson, Helen W. Kennedy
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University College Cork 2017-02-01
• Series: Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
• Subjects: experiential cinema; film industry; intellectual property; cultural production; terminology; distribution; audience
• Online Access: http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue12/HTML/ReportAtkinsonKennedy.html

The Live Cinema Conference held at King’s College London on 27 May 2016 was the culmination of research the authors of this report have undertaken to date into the emergent field of live and experiential cinema (Atkinson and Kennedy “Tell No One: Cinema as Game-space”, “‘Where We’re Going”, “Inside-the-scenes”). It launched four key interventions: the Live Cinema Network, the Live Cinema in the UK Report (Brook), the Participations Journal themed section (Atkinson and Kennedy) and the world’s first collaboration between event and live cinema: Hangmen Rehanged (Atkinson and Kennedy). Forty-six speakers and over two hundred participants were either present or connected online for the duration.