The conference, which will be held in English, will conclude with a panel discussion with the speakers, as well as director Jörg Buttgereit, and will provide the public with plenty of opportunity to ask questions. Johnny Walker (Northumbria University): "Video Violence: The 'Shot On Video' Horror Phenomenon" Steve Jones (Northumbria University): "La Petite Mort: Sex and Death in Hardcore Horror" Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University): "The Evolving Technologies of Death on Film: from Benny's Video to Unfriended: Dark Web" He is also co-founder of the underground publishing house Headpress, and author of the book "Sex Murder Art", about the films of Jörg Buttgereit, another of our festival guests. We begin this conference with an onstage interview with one of the authors, David Kerekes. Simultaneously an exposition of the snuff myth and a history of all manner of death on film, it sold over 20,000 copiesand will forever be filed under ‘cult classic. This is the starting point of the book "Killing for Culture: From Edison to Isis: A New History of Death on Film" by David Kerekes and David Slater (Headpress, 2016) - inspiration for this year's programme of "Death on Film". Now, the first edition of Killing for Culture deserves its reputation as one of the strangest best sellers ever written. Over a century later, the executions are no longer always simulated, and the world stares in confusion at the unfaked horrors freely available to view online at the click of a mouse. Pioneers such as Thomas Edison, for example, fed the public appetite for this sort of material with footage of simulated executions.
From cinema's earliest days, depictions of sexual acts on film were for restricted viewing only, whereas images of death were widely screened for general audiences.
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