This book analyses the various narrative material found in five of the films Susanne Bier directed between 1999 and 2007, four of them belonging to her ‘Danish’ period (The One And Only, Open Hearts, Brothers, After The Wedding), the fifth one being her first American feature (Things We Lost In The Fire). The first part deals with the nar…[Read more]

For archiving I made a couple of screenshots of this rare occasion. German director Alexander Kluge interviewing Natascha Drubek in June 2016. The whole film (45′) can be found when you follow the link below: “Von den Ikonen zum russischen Stummfilm”:
“Russisches Licht” hieß eine mondäne städtische Beleuchtungsart, zuerst in Paris erprobt, d…[Read more]

This paper examines Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir (2008) and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2007) to elucidate how artists, distributors, and audiences shape and define the porous boundaries of the documentary genre, and how such perceptions are shaped within a digital context. By analyzing how each film represents reality; that is, how doc…[Read more]

Adding to the long list of “post” conditions, the term “post-internet” offers a fairly recent attempt to characterize a certain social, political, historical, and material condition that artists, curators, educators, and critics are currently working with. For some, it provides a language to articulate the complex entwinements between online…[Read more]

This talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?

Adding to the long list of “post” conditions, the term “post-internet” offers a fairly recent attempt to characterize a certain social, political, historical, and material condition that artists, curators, educators, and critics are currently working with. For some, it provides a language to articulate the complex entwinements between online…[Read more]

Adding to the long list of “post” conditions, the term “post-internet” offers a fairly recent attempt to characterize a certain social, political, historical, and material condition that artists, curators, educators, and critics are currently working with. For some, it provides a language to articulate the complex entwinements between online…[Read more]

This talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?

This article seeks to prompt a re-evaluation of the fi lm archive’s role within the current digital humanities debate as a logical, yet underrated, partner. The article invokes Jeffrey Schnapp’s and Todd Presner’s plea from 2009 for digital humanities to create as its core aim a more democratic view of knowledge-producing institutions by i…[Read more]

On the potential of data visualization for Film studies and Film history.

On the versions of Dziga Vertovs film “Three Songs on Lenin”.

On the potential of data visualization for Film studies and Film history.

Article about Dziga Vertovs most famous film from 1929 with a focus on it’s surviving prints and structure. Investigation was carried out within the research project Digital Formalism (2007-2010) in Vienna.

Im digitalen Zeitalter verschwimmen die institutionellen Grenzen innerhalb der Kulturlandschaft. Umso gewinnbringender wäre es, innerhalb der Kultureinrichtungen gemeinsame Handlungsfelder zu definieren und von etablierten Prozessen und vorhandenen Infrastrukturen zu profitieren. Worin bestehen die zentralen Probleme der bisher erst zaghaften…[Read more]

In: Hajo Diekmanshenke, Stefan Neuhaus and Uta Schaffers (eds.): Das Komische in der Kultur. Dynamiken der Vermittlung: Koblenzer Studien zur Germanistik. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag 2015, 413-429.

In: Hajo Diekmanshenke, Stefan Neuhaus and Uta Schaffers (eds.): Das Komische in der Kultur. Dynamiken der Vermittlung: Koblenzer Studien zur Germanistik. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag 2015, 413-429.

In: Hajo Diekmanshenke, Stefan Neuhaus and Uta Schaffers (eds.): Das Komische in der Kultur. Dynamiken der Vermittlung: Koblenzer Studien zur Germanistik. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag 2015, 413-429.

От задника к квази-вещи и настоящему мясу: плоскость и трехмерность в кино 1900-1920
Бюсты-Цари Бауэра
Оживление вещи в 1910-е годы: Черепки кувшина и жест спинки кресла
«Душа декорации» и диковинки Бауeра в трактовке Кулешова
Вещи в глубинном постранстве
Освобожденная вещь в монтаже
«Убрать неработающие вещи!»
Столетие…[Read more]

От задника к квази-вещи и настоящему мясу: плоскость и трехмерность в кино 1900-1920
Бюсты-Цари Бауэра
Оживление вещи в 1910-е годы: Черепки кувшина и жест спинки кресла
«Душа декорации» и диковинки Бауeра в трактовке Кулешова
Вещи в глубинном постранстве
Освобожденная вещь в монтаже
«Убрать неработающие вещи!»
Столетие…[Read more]

От задника к квази-вещи и настоящему мясу: плоскость и трехмерность в кино 1900-1920
Бюсты-Цари Бауэра
Оживление вещи в 1910-е годы: Черепки кувшина и жест спинки кресла
«Душа декорации» и диковинки Бауeра в трактовке Кулешова
Вещи в глубинном постранстве
Освобожденная вещь в монтаже
«Убрать неработающие вещи!»
Столетие…[Read more]