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Warped Reflections: The Cinematic Identity of Helmut Berger

July 18, 2016/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2016_'Small data'

by Hugo Emmerzael Last year the International Film Festival Rotterdam hosted the second edition of the renewed Critics’ Choice program, in which film critics were invited to introduce a film of the program with a video essay. Films reflecting on film, in front of a live audience that could ask questions to the video essayist […]

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Live Streaming US

July 18, 2016/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2016_'Small data'

by Paula Albuquerque A Crackup at the Race Riots (2015) is a film made by the Belgian artist trio Leo Gabin and inspired by Harmony Korine’s homonymous novel. With most material coming from Florida, the film consists of a collage of imagery found on YouTube. This mostly consists of home videos or fragments from vlogs […]

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Whose Cinema: The video-essay on the big screen of the International Film Festival Rotterdam

July 18, 2016/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2016_'Small data'

by Dana Linssen For its 2016 edition the Critics’ Choice program at the International Film Festival Rotterdam once again presented a wide array of video-essays on the big screen. The selection of films and video-essayists was inspired by the question ‘Whose Cinema’ and gave way for discussions about intellectual property rights, image appropriation, and how […]

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re_making

July 18, 2016/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2016_'Small data'

by Juan Daniel F. Molero ‘It’s amazing that Steven Spielberg needed $20 million to make Raiders of the Lost Ark, and my dad only had his allowance’, says the son of one of three Mississippi teenagers who created a shot-for-shot remake of Spielberg’s film in the late 1980s. It all started as a fan project […]

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Editorial Necsus

July 15, 2016/in News, Spring 2016_'Small data'

This year marks the tenth anniversary of NECS (European Network of Cinema and Media Studies), one of the key organisations that co-established and continues to support NECSUS. Founded in Berlin in February 2006, NECS has grown into a large network of media studies academics and researchers in and beyond Europe. The launch of the first […]

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New media configurations and socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world

July 11, 2016/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2016_'Small data'

Today more than ever new media and digital technologies are embedded in everyday life and socio-cultural structures. In fact, the evolving nature of media platforms, the migratory feature of content across various media sites, and the adoption of a participatory culture have tremendously altered the social dynamics not only within the nation-state setting but also […]

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Complex series and struggling cable guys

July 11, 2016/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2016_'Small data'

Both Jason Mittell’s Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (New York: New York University Press, 2015) and Amanda Lotz’s Cable Guys: Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century (New York: New York University Press, 2014) significantly contribute to filling the gap in research on recent television series. Over the past two decades a […]

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Rediscovering Frantz Fanon at Scotland’s Africa in Motion film festival

July 11, 2016/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2016_'Small data'

The Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival was founded in 2006 by Lizelle Bisschoff as a solution to the marginalisation and under-representation of African films in the UK. Between 2006 and 2015 AiM screened over 5,000 films to a combined audience of 30,000 people in the UK.[1] Since 2006 AiM has been organised and managed […]

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Human rights, film, and social change: Screening Rights Film Festival, Birmingham Centre for Film Studies

July 11, 2016/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2016_'Small data'

The inaugural Birmingham Screening Rights film festival screened its programme of 7 films in July 2015 over three days under the auspices of human rights in a region that houses some of England’s greatest ethnic diversity. The small number of films screened over such a short time might suggest that this did not constitute a […]

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Of calendars and industries: IDFA and CPH:DOX

July 11, 2016/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2016_'Small data'

This article focuses on the strategies developed by two Northern European documentary film festivals – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) – to position themselves in the international festival ecosystem and develop a differentiated identity.[1] Over the past ten years I have been conducting research at documentary film […]

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The milieu of poetry: Yuri An’s ‘The Unharvested Sea’ and ‘Sailing Words’

July 11, 2016/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2016_'Small data'

For the past couple of years South Korean artist Yuri An has been producing a compelling body of work which closely relates poetry, moving (and to a lesser extent still) images, and a series of self-published books which feature her writing. In 2015 she was a recipient of the Seoul Museum of Art award for […]

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Re-enacting pre-existing image collections in Akram Zaatari’s ‘Unfolding’

July 11, 2016/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2016_'Small data'

Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari’s exhibition Unfolding at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (7 March – 16 August 2015) is what you may call a hybrid exhibition in the sense that it includes several different media and makes use of various exhibition formats.[1] The exhibition can be divided into two separate but interrelated parts. The first part […]

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Ryoji Ikeda at ZKM

July 11, 2016/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2016_'Small data'

Under the title The New Art Event in the Digital Age, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe’s GLOBALE program hosted and presented 300 days of exhibitions, cultural, and education events (April 2015 to January 2016) celebrating the 300th birthday of the city of Karlsruhe.[1] Given the dedication of ZKM to art and media technology […]

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Towards a ‘minor data’ manifesto

July 11, 2016/in Spring 2016_'Small data'

by Jacek Smolicki and Alberto Frigo Not big and not small data Before moving to a discussion on the concept of minor data we find it important to explain how the term relates, or rather how it differs from existing terms that have emerged in the context of ubiquitous data circulation and accumulation. Big data […]

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Database aesthetics, modular storytelling, and the intimate small worlds of Korsakow documentaries

July 11, 2016/in Spring 2016_'Small data'

by Anna Wiehl Small – the alternative big? Within the context of digitalisation and networked media, the immediate spread of information, and the automatised gathering and structuring of vast amounts of data of our daily lives, new audiovisual documentary genres and formats keep emerging. Many of them are large-scale, global collaborations based on the world-wide […]

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