ABSTRACT
At the Southern Screens symposium—convened by Antonio Traverso at Curtin University, Perth, Australia, in October 2013, and subsequently documented in Critical Arts 29 (5)—it was decided that the symposium should be followed up with a broader conference. In November 2015, a collection of scholars from across the southern hemisphere, and some from the north whose interests are southern, gathered at Monash University, Melbourne, for the inaugural Cinema at the End of the World conference. An undeniable apocalyptic sense invested in the phrase “cinema at/of the end of the world”, which we seek to address here in terms of the critical and transformative vitality involved in the Global South’s project of decolonisation rather than the purely dystopic anxieties mobilised by the Western imaginary of world endings. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
