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2. 1. Figures of time : on the phenomenology of cinema and temporality

   Author : Malin Wahlberg; Michael Renov; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; film theory; phenomenology; aesthetic theory; temporality; duration; speed; photography; city film; documentary; experimental cinema; Film; Filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Abstract : Image and time represent a favored issue among theorists and practitioners in the history of cinema, where discussion is related to the ingenious machine, the new art, as well as the experience of film. Looking back on this debate, and considering recent accounts of 'time-images,' it is striking to note how the problem has always oscillated between issues of the medium specific and issues of film experience; that is, the ontology of cinema as a time-bound medium, the quality of rhythm, duration, and recorded views, and, not least, the sensory and affective impact of mediated sound-images. READ MORE

4. 2. Gallery Experience : Viewers, Screens and the Space In-Between in Contemporary Installation Art

   Author : Olivia Eriksson; Malin Wahlberg; Anu Koivunen; Ilona Hongisto; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gallery film; film installation; artists film; archival art; film experience; film phenomenology; embodied experience; relational aesthetics; participation; site specificity; Olafur Eliasson; Fiona Tan; Akram Zaatari; Richard Mosse; Jesper Just; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores gallery experience as an embodied and site-specific occurrence. Using an interdisciplinary approach that bridges art historical research with film theoretical perspectives, it offers contextualized, in-depth analyses of a limited number of contemporary installation works exhibited in Scandinavia during 2014–2016. READ MORE

5. 3. Smuggle, Frame, Shoot : Illicit Media Practices and Visual Insurgency from Lebanese Incarceration

   Author : Chafic T. Najem; Kari Andén-Papadopoulos; Malin Wahlberg; Anne Kaun; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; media studies; visual culture; media practice; media witnessing; digital activism; vulnerability; prison practices; prison representations; prison testimonies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

   Abstract : This research explores prisoners’ illicit use of digital-media technology during their incarceration in Lebanon. Prisoners smuggle cellphones and access internet and telecommunication connection to produce and mediate videos, images, and voice recordings documenting quotidian experiences of imprisonment, violent events, and the COVID-19 Pandemic inside the notorious and overcrowded Roumieh Central Prison. READ MORE

6. 4. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema

   Author : Kristoffer Noheden; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Malin Wahlberg; Patricia Allmer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; surrealism; André Breton; mythology; esotericism; intertextuality; intermediality; Wilhelm Freddie; Benjamin Péret; Nelly Kaplan; Jan Švankmajer; Gaston Bachelard; Walter Benjamin; primitivism; embodied experience; initiation; art history; Pierre Mabille; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : Following the end of World War II, the surrealist founder André Breton organized the exhibition Le Surréalisme en 1947. In conjunction with it, he announced a “change in direction” for surrealism, towards the search for a new myth, replete with magic. READ MORE

7. 5. Electronic Labyrinths : An Archaeology of Videographic Cinema

   Author : Jonathan Rozenkrantz; Trond Lundemo; Malin Wahlberg; Patricia Pisters; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; videographic cinema; video images in films; media archaeology; imaginary media; media imaginaries; live television drama; video therapy; video surveillance; video art; reality TV; mediated memories; media history; YouTube; retro; analogue nostalgia; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : This study scans six decades of film history in search for video images, the imaginaries within which they are framed, and (taking cues from the archaeological methods of Friedrich Kittler and Michel Foucault) their technical, historical, and institutional conditions of existence. The British experimental science fiction film Anti-Clock (Jane Arden and Jack Bond, 1979) revolves around a video device with the capacity to confront subjects with their own repressed memory images. READ MORE