by Julian Hanich Introduction ‘[L]aughter allows the audience to become aware of itself.’ This brief statement by André Bazin uttered in passing in his second article on ‘Theater and Cinema’ harbors a number of thought-provoking ideas.[1] The main goal of my article will be to examine what Bazin’s sentence may imply for the collective experience […]
The First World War had far-reaching consequences for many. This most violent war devastated large parts of Europe and claimed millions of victims. During the 1910s war and its atrocities were captured and reflected on the young medium of film for the first time. Footage of earlier conflicts such as the Boer Wars or the […]
From 29-31 March 2015, EYE Film Museum will organise The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema, an academic conference on colour in silent films. The conference will explore a diverse range of archival and academic topics and provide a stimulating environment for specialists from across different disciplines. It will also include screenings of restored […]
The esteemed German film and video artist Harun Farocki has passed away at the age of 70. His formidable career in cinema began in the 1960s and included work as a journal editor and a professor. Farocki’s works of art, whether in the cinema, the gallery, or other settings, were often radical in form and […]
by Saige Walton To the intuition of an unstable and moving world, of a multiple and inconstant life, hesitating between being and seeming, fond of disguise and of theatrical representation, there correspond, on the expressive and structural level, a rhetoric of metaphor and trompe l’oeil, a poetics of surprise and variousness, and a style of […]
by Andrea Mariani Erase the traces! – Bertolt Brecht (Ten Poems from a Reader for Those Who Live in Cities) The historical and theoretical inquiries sustained in this essay derive from the recovery of an object found in the attic of an old photographer in Como, Northern Italy:[1] the 16 mm dupe negative print, originating […]
by Paula Albuquerque [T]he likelihood of being captured by the relentless mechanical eyes of the surveillance cameras, webcams and all sorts of portable camera devices has arguably turned our whole world cinematic, a condition that now exists prior to and regardless of any actual intervention of recording and display.[1] In my work as an experimental […]
As its title makes clear, Europe and Love in Cinema, edited by Luisa Passerini, Jo Labanyi, and Karen Diehl (Bristol: Intellect, 2012), offers an intriguing and provocative encounter between three concepts – ‘Europe’, ‘love’ and ‘cinema’ – which may not initially seem to have that much in common, at least in the field of film […]
‘Much of the available commentary on the films of Béla Tarr is often confused and confusing.’ I could not agree more with John Cunningham. His words, written on the jacket of András Bálint Kovács’ book (New York: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2013), remind the reader of those essayistic writings on Tarr’s cinema which often try, […]
by Vicente Rodriguez Ortega Introduction Historians date the beginning of the Transition to democracy in Spain in 1975 – the year of Franco’s death. However, there are multiple periodisations in regard to its end: the passing of the Constitution in 1978, the democratic election in 1979, the 1981 coup d’état, or 1982, the year in […]
Judging by the titles of Dina Iordanova’s and Stuart Cunningham’s edited volume Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-Line (St. Andrews: St. Andrews Film Studies, 2012) as well as Ramon Lobato’s Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution (London: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), one could be forgiven for thinking that the movie theatre as we […]
The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema will provide a new forum to explore contemporary archival and academic debates around colour in the silent era. The conference will explore a diverse range of archival and academic topics and provide a stimulating environment for specialists from across different disciplines. It will also include screenings of […]
Conferences primarily dedicated to stars and stardom do not come around on a regular basis. Newcastle University organised an event on the ever-expanding field of star studies, in cooperation with the Center for Film and Digital Media at the University of Sunderland. Despite its low-key character, the conference attracted some 70 delegates from 12 countries […]
A conference that has ‘women’s cinema’ in its title faces a considerable challenge just in defining the term. As Teresa De Lauretis argued over two decades ago, it is ‘a term whose definition … is almost as problematic and contested as the term “feminism” itself’.[1] The organisers of the conference Contemporary Women’s Cinema: Global Scenarios […]
Exhibition: Lo sguardo di Michelangelo. Antonioni e le arti, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara (10 March 2013 – 9 June 2013) Catalogue: Lo sguardo di Michelangelo. Antonioni e le arti (Ferrara: Ferrara Arte, 2013), edited by Dominique Païni Lo sguardo di Michelangelo is an ambitious exhibition; it portrays Antonioni as a filmmaker, a visual artist, and […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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