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Screening the financial crisis: A case study for ontology-based film analytical video annotations

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Data Papers

This paper presents a dataset of fine-grained film analytical annotations (Melgar & Estrada & Koolen 2018) for a corpus study of feature films, documentaries, and television news on the Global Financial Crisis (2007-), generated by the research group Affektrhetoriken des Audiovisuellen (Freie Universität Berlin and Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, 2016-2021, see Bakels et. al. 2020a). The semantic video annotations are based on the AdA Filmontology (v1.8), which consists of eight annotation levels, 78 annotation types, and 501 annotation values (Bakels et. al. 2020b). Each level, type, and value has a unique resource identifier (URI) as well as an English and German name and description. In our paper, we reflect on the specific challenges of capturing film-analytical claims of embodied viewing experiences in an ontology-based taxonomy. We further critically discuss aspects such as intercoder-reliability, consistency, as well as the requirements of training and synchronising expert annotators. The dataset contains more than 92,000 manual and semi-automatic annotations authored in the open-source-software Advene (Aubert/Prié 2005) by expert annotators, as well as more than 400,000 automatically-generated annotations for wider corpus exploration. The annotations are published as Linked Open Data under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence and available as rdf triples in ttl files and in Advene’s non-proprietary azp-file format, which allows instant access through the graphical interface of the software. Via a web application all annotations can be downloaded, queried, and visualised in conjunction with password-protected access to the source video files (Agt-Rickauer 2022). This dataset is of interest for research on the financial crisis discourse or the specific films and broadcasts; also, the dataset serves as a proof of concept for ontology-based video annotation and as a provider of training data on film analytical concepts such as shot length, camera movements, or affective tonalities.

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Cinema and/as infrastructure in interwar avant-gardes and empire aviation documentaries

June 7, 2023/in Features, Spring 2023_#Ports

This article analyses cinematic exposition of aeriality in empire documentaries and avant-garde cinema from the interwar period to interrogate cinema as infrastructure, its weaponisation and deployment in the imperial project, and its convergence with aerial infrastructure which united the perception of Empire with the experience of modernity. I argue that the use of aeriality in the aestheticisation of infrastructures in avant-garde films like De Brug (Joris Ivens, 1928) and La Tour (Rene Clair, 1928) cannot be divorced from the ideology that is on overt display in Empire aviation documentaries such as Wings over Everest and Contact.

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The many stories of cinema and cinephilia in Pakistan

June 7, 2023/in Reviews, Book Reviews, Spring 2023_#Ports

In the area of South Asian film studies, Pakistani cinema has rarely been the subject of focused and dedicated scholarship. As such, Mushtaq Gazdar’s Pakistan Cinema 1947-1997 has remained the only historical study of Pakistani cinema, its disputed origins, and its evolution from the creation of Pakistan in 1947 until the late 20th century. In […]

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Absence in Cinema

December 8, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Book Reviews

Justin Remes’ Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020) can be treated as the complement to the author’s earlier volume, also from Columbia University Press, Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (2015), in that he deconstructs the art of the ‘moving image’ to its fundamentals: i.e., films that […]

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Itineraries of walking and footwear on film

June 7, 2022/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors

Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in walking, as evidenced by an increasing number of publications, workshops (or sometimes ‘walkshops’), and other events dedicated to the topic. In this review, I focus on two recent volumes that can be positioned within this growing interest, but particularly contributing to the field […]

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The form and technology of videographic cinema

June 7, 2022/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors

The surge of scholarly interest in the essay film has brought to light Theodor Adorno’s analogy in The Essay as Form that is as fruitful as it is intuitive: ‘The way the essay appropriates concepts can best be compared to the behavior of someone in a foreign country who is forced to speak its language […]

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Conference – ‘CINEMATERIALISM’

March 7, 2022/in News

From 20-21 October 2022, the Université de Paris, France, will be hosting the hybrid conference ‘CINEMATERIALISM: New Materialist Approaches to the Audiovisual (Cinema, Media, Digital Arts)’. With the aim to explore the reconfiguration of the notion of “materialism” in research on audiovisual cultures, the conference invites materialist analyses of films, theoretical approaches as well as […]

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Research Forum  – ‘Alternative Research Forum’

October 6, 2021/in News

On 10 December 2021, the Alternative Research Forum – part of Alternative Film Video 2021, one of the oldest international festivals for new film and video work in Europe– will be hosted as a hybrid online event at Students’ City Cultural Center in Belgrade. For this year’s focus on the Non-Aligned Movement and moving images, […]

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Virtual Conference – Besides the Screen: ‘Geographies, Spaces, and Places Outside the Screen’

April 7, 2021/in News

As part of the Besides the Screen 10th Anniversary programme of events, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, King’s College, London and Queen’s University will be co-hosting the hybrid conference ‘Geographies, Spaces, and Places Outside the Screen’ from 10-12 June 2021. With an interest in how space and place intersect with sites of production, circulation […]

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Conference – ‘Postcolonial Italian Cinema’

April 3, 2021/in News

From 16-17 September 2021, the Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, will be hosting the international conference ‘Postcolonial Italian Cinema’. Aimed towards a reconsideration of postcolonial Italian Cinema in film and history, the conference – organized by Damiano Garofalo (Sapienza, Rome) and Luca Peretti (Warwick, United Kingdom) – will synthesise multiple points of view into a […]

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Conference – ‘The Shifting Ecologies of Photochemical Film in the Digital Era’

February 21, 2021/in News

From 7-11 June 2021, the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University, Wales, will be hosting the hybrid conference ‘The Shifting Ecologies of Photochemical Film in the Digital Era’. Organized by Kim Knowles, Marcy Saude and Christo Wallers, the conference explores how film operates alongside and in dialogue with technological and digital […]

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Lecture Series – ‘Cinepoetics’

August 18, 2020/in News

The ‘Cinepoetics Lectures’, a collaboration between the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and the Kino Arsenal (Institute for Film and Video Art), are open to the public and free of charge – and now also available online as audio recordings. Following the research center’s goal to explore the poetologies […]

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Virtual Conference – ‘Women in Indonesian Film and Cinema’

July 19, 2020/in News

The Association of the Indonesian Film Scholars KAFEIN is hosting the virtual conference “Women in Indonesian Film and Cinema” until the end of August. Organised around eight panels, the virtual conference explores the role of women in the Indonesian film history, in the transformation of film from other media as well as in different genres […]

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A Machine for Viewing – 2 – A Pillow of Light

July 6, 2020/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2020_#Intelligence

by Richard Misek

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The Golem in the age of artificial intelligence

July 6, 2020/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence

What can the Jewish myth of the Golem teach us about artificial intelligence? This article explores the Golem as one of the earliest AI prototypes and a myth that became a foundational story of sci-fi cinema. The Golem sets the parameters of opposition between men and intelligent or sentient machines, and at the same time points to possible third options beyond the dialectic of control.   

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