Compact Cinematics

Pepita Hesselberth is assistant professor in cultural theory, film, and digital media at the Department of Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Cinematic Chronotopes (Bloomsbury, 2014), and the guest editor of Empedocles: Journal of Philosophy of Communication, on “Short Film Experience” (with Carlos Roos; 2015). Currently she is working on her project on Disconnectivity in the Digital Age, for which she received a grant from the Danish Council of Independent Research, and is appointed as a research fellow at the University of Copenhagen. Maria Poulaki is Lecturer in Film and Digital Media Arts at University of Surrey, UK. Placing contemporary cinematics within the realm of complexity theory and neuroscience debates she has contributed to Screen, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Film-Philosophy, Cinema & Cie, Projections, and a number of edited volumes.

Introduction Compact Cinematics: Screen, Capture, Attention // Pepita Hesselberth (Leiden University, The Netherlands) & Maria Poulaki (University of Surrey, UK)

Part 1 [Short] Minimal Narratives
1. Countdown to Zero: Compressing Cinema Time // Tom Gunning (The University of Chicago, US)
2. On Conflict in Short Film Storytelling // Richard Raskin (Aarhus University, Denmark)
3. Accelerated Gestures: Play Time in Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7 // Peter Verstraten (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
4. Lynch on the Run: The Proximity of Trauma in the Short Film // Todd McGowan (The University of Vermont, USA)

Part 2 [Condensed] Polyphonic Archives
5. The Ethics of Repair: Re-Animating the Archive // Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
6. Long Story Short // Natalie Bookchin (Rutgers, USA)
7. Skip Intro? Short Video Intros as a Reflexive Threshold in the Interactive Documentary// Tina M. Bastajian (Webster University the Netherlands, The Netherlands)
8. The Viewser as Curator: The Online Film Festival Platform // Geli Mademli (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Part 3 [Compressed] Pleasure & Productivity
9. The Contingent Spectator // Francesco Casetti (Yale University, USA)
10. Speed Watching, Efficiency, and the New Temporalities of Digital Spectatorship // Neta Alexander (The New York University Tisch School of the Arts, USA)
11. Visual Pleasure and GIFs // Anna McCarthy (The New York University Tisch School of the Arts, USA)
12. Solitary Screens: On the Recurrence and Consumption of Images // Pasi Väliaho (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

Part 4 [Miniature] Mobile Cinematics
13. Archaeology of Mobile Film: Blink, Bluvend and the Pocket Short // Kim Louise Walden (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
14. Children’s Little Thumb Films or “Films-Poucets” // Wanda Strauven (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) and Alexandra Schneider (University in Mainz, Germany)
15. Of Flip Books & Funny Animals: Chris Ware’s Quimby the Mouse // Yasco Horsman (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
16. Mobile Cinematics // Maria Engberg (Malmö University, Sweden) and Jay David Bolter (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Part 5 [Compacted] Urban Ecologies
17. Screening Smart Cities: Managing Data, Views, and Vertigo // Gillian Rose (The Open University, UK)
18. Of Compactness: Life with Media Façade Screens // Ulrik Ekman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
19. Codified Space: Cinematic Recodings of Urban Reality // Justin Ascott (Norwich University of the Arts, UK)