Veranstaltung auf Englisch.

The workshop addresses the ‚media elemental‘ underpinnings of cinematic atmospheres. Atmosphere is here both to be understood in the ordinary aesthetic sense of an affectively charged environment, with cinema arguably being the medium par excellence of mass-produced, artificial atmospheres exhibiting an anthropocentric desire for environmental control. However, the notion of atmosphere also serves a rethinking of the medium of cinema within a broader environmental, post-Aristotelian legacy of this concept in its evocation of the capacity of diaphanous substances like air, vapor, smoke, clouds, water, crystal, and glass to actively shape – through their varying consistencies and degrees of transparency and opacity – the environment in which our sensory experiences unfold.

Foto: Lukas Becker

Wednesday, 27th May

17:00
Welcome Reception at ZeM

Thursday, 28th May

10:00-10:15
Welcome Remarks CATNEMI & ZeM

10:15-12:15
Tiago de Luca (University of Warwick)
„An Air of Reality:“ Locations, Backgrounds, Atmospheres

Jennifer Fay (Vanderbilt University)
Animals out of Season, Climates out of Place

Michael Wedel (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
A Storm is Born. Anthropogeography and Elemental Affects in Murnau’s DER GANG IN DIE NACHT

12:15-13:15
Lunch Break

13:15-14:45
Jamie Lee Moser (CATNEMI, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
Anamorphic Atmospheres and the Elemental Operations of Moving-Images

Daniel Yacavone (Phillipps-Universität Marburg)
Seeing-through and Seeing-with Cinema: Reflections on/of Translucency, Opacity and Materially-Environmentally Mediated Perception

14:45-15:15
Coffee Break

15:15-16:45
Weihong Bao (University of California, Berkeley)
Hermeneutics of Doubt: An Atmospherics of Meaning

Birgit Schneider (University of Potsdam)
How Atmospheres Rely on Elemental Media

Friday, 29th May

10:00-12:00
Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan)
Spectatorial Atmospheres

Doron Galili (Stockholm University)
Medium and Environment in Rudolf Arnheim’s Film Theory

Sarah Greifenstein (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder))
Perceiving Time Stretchings within a Time Lapsing Platform – Audiovisual Energies, Forces and Spheric Nature/Landscape Videos on TikTok

12:00-13:00
Lunch Break

13:00-14:30
Steffen Hven (CATNEMI, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
Cinema’s Diaphanous Atmospheres

Michael Ufer (ZeM, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
Diaphoretic Displacements – On the Media Poetics of Cinematographic Sweating

14:30-15:00
Coffee Break

15:00-16:30
Inga Pollmann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Mood, Medium, Milieu – Film & Media Atmospheres and Experience

Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam)
Atmospheric Qualities of the Cosmic Camera

16:30
Final Remarks & Closing Reception

Saturday, 30th May

TBD
For those interested, there will be the opportunity for socializing in Potsdam, for instance a group visit to DAS MINSK Kunsthaus or Museum Barberini.

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Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des ERC-StG-Projekts CATNEMI – Cinematic Atmospheres: Towards a New Ecology of the Moving Image und des ZeM – Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften.