Forschungsdaten in den Geisteswissenschaften unterscheiden sich grundlegend von denjenigen in den Naturwissenschaften. Macht es überhaupt Sinn, davon in diesen allgemeinen Worten zu sprechen? Gibt es innerhalb der Disziplinen große Unterschiede, vor allem vor dem Hintergrund der Digital Humanities, die manchmal als eine Art übergeordnete Di…[Read more]

Film archives still linger at the fringes of the galleries, libraries, archives, and museums sector. However, in the opinion of this author, they are the logical partners when it comes to the curation, publication, exploration, and interconnection of online resources. I intend to address some of the obstacles which have so far prevented more…[Read more]

In this paper, I will highlight some recent initiatives in the study of film within the digital humanities, in
which context I will also present some of my own endeavors, specifically visualizations created in
collaboration with the pioneering new media theorist Lev Manovich from films made by the Soviet
avant-garde director Dziga Vertov…[Read more]

In this paper I will start by describing film archives at the current situation as they move from analogue to digital. Meanwhile new educational programs in Germany have been set up to prepare the next generation of film archivists for their task. I will discuss my views on how study programs can support them and what they could usefully add to…[Read more]

Editorial Article to the special issue “Mise en geste. Studies of Gesture in Cinema” (ed. by Ana Hedberg Olenina and Irina Schulzki) in journal “Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe” 5 (2017). 1. Gesture as a Figure of Speech. About this Issue 2. Liberated Gestures: Theories of Bodily Statements beyond the…[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]

Collective monograph in Russian edited by Anna Skotnicka and Janusz Świeży

In 2008 Mikhail Epstein suggested a new discipline, sciptorics, that would bring back the subject of writing hastily effaced by the poststructuralist concept of the “death of the author”. In scriptorics, the act of writing gains an anthropological and personalised dimension. The scriptor’s mode of existence consists in “leaving traces” by litera…[Read more]