Moderators – Artistic Research in Film Conference 2021

Profound Transformations

In the current transformation of our networked societies, the audiovisual media are going through a series of profound transformations. New media forms and technologies, new ways of distribution and reception are changing the filmic arts and their professional profiles. New digital possibilities put the classic cinema space into perspective.

Filmic narratives and imageries are shaping reality under new auspices. Artistic research in the medium of film reflects and co-designs this change in its relationship to social politics and economics, science and tech development.

The conference aims to discuss forms and topics of filmic artistic research.

How do questions and researching approaches look like in the medium of film?
How do the procedures, contents and methods vary in the various filmic forms and technologies?
Which experiments, thought processes and propositions shape the world of possibilities?
What is the specific knowledge of the cinematic media forms and how does it differ from the knowledge of the sciences and technologies but also of the other art forms?
How do discourses, narratives and imageries in film and its expanded media forms build on technological innovations? And how do they continue these developments artistically?
What does research thought and practice mean for the actors in the various crafts in film?
And how is artistic research in film shaping up for analog and digital spaces "after the cinema" (Godard)?

Artistic Research in Film

Artistic research is an independent way of research by means of the arts. It works in its own languages, employs its own tools and procedures and follows its own criteria. It combines discursive and non-discursive processes and results and it initiates new dialogues between the knowledge cultures. In a broad European discourse over the last 30 years, profiles and processes of artistic research have been discussed as well as its institutional framework.

At many art and film schools in Europe, artistic research is already being systematically expanded, while at others first programmes are currently being established. Against the backdrop of this dynamic the IKF Institute for Artistic Research at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in cooperation with GEECT, the Erich Pommer Institute and the UNESCO Cities of Film Network is hosting the international conference Transversal Entanglements - Artistic Research in Film. The conference will take place online from June 3 to 5, 2021. Our guests will be media artists and filmmakers from the 93 film schools in 34 European countries, which are currently members of GEECT and further experts from Berlin-Brandenburg and the wider German region.

IKF Institute for Artistic Research

The IKF is the center for artistic research at the Babelsberg Film University. As an active discourse platform, the IKF takes on an integrating and impulse-giving role. It supports artistic research in audiovisual media and strengthens the development of a transdisciplinary research culture. The IKF actively contributes to the networking of researchers at the film university and, with its external partners, is an interface to international fields of discourse and practice. It captures and promotes the potential of film and media arts for development and innovation. With its activities, the IKF aims at the future viability of the cinematic disciplines in the digital and societal transformation. The IKF is headed by the professors Gesa Marten, Daniela Schlütz and Stefan Winter.

Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

The Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF is a place where film comes alive, a school representing a wealth of different stories and artistic forms, genres and formats, specialization and exchange. Our unique craft-oriented and interdisciplinary education enables creative people to develop their own filmic language. In research and teaching, we focus on both artistic and scientific approaches and thus actively contribute to the development of media, art, science, and society. Film University annually hosts Sehsüchte, the largest student film festival in Europe. Sehsüchte, das größte studentische Filmfestival Europas.

GEECT Groupement Européen des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision

GEECT is the European section of the worldwide umbrella organization of film and television schools CILECT (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision). CILECT members are 180 institutions with more than 10,000 teachers from 65 countries on all continents.

GEECT represents 93 institutions in 34 countries. The association strengthens teaching and research in the field of audiovisual media, film and television. It fosters the cooperation between film schools and the dialogue with the film and media industry.

EPI Erich Pommer Institute

The EPI is one of the leading providers of advanced training in the German and European media landscape and a recognised industry-specific think tank. With its expertise in media law and management and with a variety of formats and publications, the EPI supports the on-going process of digital transformation in the media industry. The Erich Pommer Institute was founded in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1998 as an independent non-profit limited company and is an institute affiliated with the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and the University of Potsdam.

VG Bild-Kunst/Stiftung Kulturwerk

The Stiftung Kulturwerk fulfils the cultural mandate of the VG Bild-Kunst, an association for the collective administration of copyrights. It promotes projects in the field of visual arts, awards grants to photographers, illustrators, graphic artists and graphic designers and supports culturally relevant projects in the field of film. The funds of Stiftung Kulturwerk come from the revenues of the VG Bild-Kunst. Due to the Copyright Administration Act (Wahrnehmungsgesetz), the VG Bild-Kunst is bound to make a certain percentage of its revenues from the administration of copyrights available to its members for the promotion of cultural purposes.

UNESCO Creative City of Film Potsdam

Die UNESCO Creative City of Film Potsdam ist Teil des umfassenderen UNESCO Cities of Film Network. Potsdam ist die erste deutsche Stadt, die zur UNESCO Creative City of Film ernannt wurde. Die Studios in Potsdam Babelsberg sind seit ihrer Gründung 1912 das älteste Großaltelier-Filmstudio der Welt und die Wiege des deutschen Films. Weltklassiker wie METROPOLIS von Fritz Lang und DER BLAUE ENGEL mit Marlene Dietrich wurden hier gedreht. Heute werden auf dem Studiogelände u.a. internationale Kinofilme wie INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS oder GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL hergestellt.

... and here the Moderators.

Elisabeth Brun

Jeanne Faust

Sirko Knüpfer

Christine Lang

Gesa Marten

Karen Pearlman

Christine Reeh-Peters

Marlis Roth

Szilvia Ruszev

Katja Straub

Stefan Winter

Graphic Recording

The Art of Listening. Throughout the conference, Christiane Büchner draws inspired by the presentations and discussions. Go to the gallery where you can view and download the drawings.

Artistic Processes and Discourses

Im Mittelpunkt der Konferenz stehen Case Studies, in denen renommierte Filmschaffende ihre künstlerisch forschende Arbeit vorstellen. In moderierten Plenumsdiskussionen werden Arbeitsprozesse und Diskurse reflektiert und Break-out Rooms bieten kleineren Gruppen der Teilnehmenden die Möglichkeit, inhaltliche Positionen auszutauschen und Netzwerke aufzubauen.

The Site-Specific Film research group is building a physical centre for the digital conference: the "Conference Stand". Here the group presents - on site and online - 20 filmic works that are being developed specifically for this setting. The installation architecture picks up on core ideas of the conference and creates a place for relaxed thinking and a focus/defocus on artistic research in film. The "Conference Stand" serves Transversal Entanglement as main stage, showcase and break room.

Conference Team

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ONLINE CONFERENCE

Institute for Artistic Research
at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
presents

International GEECT Conference

Transversal Entanglement Artistic Research
in Film

June 3 to 5, 2021

Registration ends on May 26.

Profound Transformations

The conference aims to discuss forms and topics of filmic artistic research.

Artistic Research in Film

These are our Speakers!