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What becomes of film once it leaves the cinema? How do moving images work in settings beyond the classical dispositive of the public screening – in the home, the scientific laboratory, the classroom or in public spaces? And how does technological change – particularly the emergence of digital photography and the proliferation of network communication – affect the shape and uses of moving images?

Based on a conception of moving image culture that exceeds and challenges the established methodological frameworks of cinema studies, this Graduate Research Training Program examines a wide variety of configurations of film including, and beyond, the classical cinema space. Twelve doctoral students and two postdoctoral fellows per cohort will study these different aspects of moving image culture with the input and under the supervision of fifteen established researchers in an interdisciplinary setting, addressing topics in film and media studies, philosophy, musicology and literature.
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Open Access Publication: “Accidental Archivism” by Vinzenz Hediger & Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
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Open Access Publication: “Post-Cinematic Bodies” by Shane Denson
Kolleg event
26.06.2023 • 6/26/23 18:00 – 6/26/23 20:00
Media Room 7.214 IG-Farben Building
Caetlin Benson-Allott: Not Where But When: Escapism and Video Spectatorship
Mercator Fellow Caetlin Benson-Allott will give a lecture titled "Not Where But When: Escapism and Video Spectatorship" on June 26, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. (c.t.).
New Nollywood and CIs
Kolleg event
22.05.2023 • 5/16/23 18:00 – 5/16/23 20:00
Media Room 7.214 IG-Farben Building
Añulika Agina: New Nollywood and the Creative Industries in Nigeria
Mercator Fellow Añulika Agina will give a lecture titled "New Nollywood and the Creative Industries in Nigeria" on May 22, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. (c.t.).
Kolleg event
01.06.2023 – 03.06.2023
Renate-von-Metzler Saal, Campus Westend
Sticky Films. Conceptual & Material Explorations. International Conference
The international conference "Sticky Films. Conceptual & Material Explorations" brings together erratic examples of stickiness, adhesives, glue, and paste to create contact zones in film and media studies.
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“Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence” by Laliv Melamed
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Open Access Publication: “Guantánamo Frames” by Rebecca Boguska
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“Migrating Through the Web. Interactive Practices About Migration, Flight and Exile” by Nicole Braida
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Open Access Publication: “Die ‘filmende Bäckersfrau’ Elisabeth Wilms – Amateurfilmpraktiken und Gebrauchsfilmkultur” by Alexander Stark
Kolleg event
29.10.2022 • 10/7/22 14:00 – 10/7/22 16:00
Eisenhower Room 1.314 IG-Farben Building
Marc Steinberg: From the Convenience Store to Netflix: Tracing a Lineage of “Lean Convenience”
Concordia University Professor Marc Steinberg will deliver the closing keynote for the "Platforms and the Moving Image" symposium, titled "From the Convenience Store to Netflix: Tracing a Lineage of 'Lean Convenience'" on October 29 at 2 p.m. (s.t.)