<videovortex> Film studies in Motion / Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

[Vera Tollmann]

http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/podium/film-studies-in-motion.html


Film Studies in Motion – A Web Series in 7 Episodes

"Film Studies in Motion", a Web Series created by Kevin B. Lee and
Volker Pantenburg, will present weekly selections of analytical video
essays on the web in preparation for their presentation  "Whatever
happened to Bildungsauftrag? – Teaching cinema on TV and the Web".

Anyone who has an Internet connection and wants to expand their
understanding of cinema can behold the remarkable abundance of
analytical video essays on the web. Proliferated in just the last five
years, these meticulous readings of title sequences, thorough
investigations of film style and montage decisions, dialogic inquiries
of acting or mise en scene have created a genre in its own right. They
can be found on websites like IndieWire’s Press Play, Fandor, Moving
Image Source and Audiovisualcy, on the last of which curator Catherine
Grant has categorized these works under the term "videographic film
studies." The essays are expressions of a cinephilia 2.0, fueled by
weblogs, internet-journals and streaming platforms, produced from DVDs
and digital media, laptops and DIY editing software.

Kevin B. Lee and Volker Pantenburg will present weekly selections from
this genre, as well as some key works from before the era of online
video (many of which are now available online).