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CATNEMI is an ERC Starting Grant research project, located at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam, dealing with the wide field of cinematic atmospheres. How are they created? How do they operate? How do operations of cinematic atmospheres influence our perception of non-cinematic media content?

CATNEMI presents: ZeM Lecture „ATMOSPHERES OF THROWNNESS IN EXPERIMENTAL BLACK CINEMA: TORQUE, ECSTASY, AND GLITCHING“

Thur., June 5th, 5 pm

NEXT WEEK the CATNEMI project ist proud to present Rebecca Sheehan from California State University, Fullerton at the ZeM – Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften. Rebecca Sheehan will talk about Atmospheres of Thrownness in Experimental Black Cinema: Torque, Ecstasy, and Glitching. The lecture is organized by ZeM in collaboration with CATNEMI and will thankfully be hosted by ZeM in their rooms at Hermann-Elflein-Straße 18 in 14467 Potsdam.

Find more detailed information at the ZeM-Website: https://www.zem-brandenburg.de/veranstaltungen/zem-lecture-atmospheres-of-thrownness-in-experimental-black-cinema-torque-ecstasy-and-glitching/  

CATNEMI im Gespräch

„Bei der Frage, wie Musik Atmosphäre schafft, muss auch über Konventionen und Stereotype gesprochen werden. Ungut, wenn uns das nicht bewusst wäre.“

Steffen Hven und Jamie Lee Moser haben sich mit Gesa Marten, Professorin für Künstlerische Montage an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, zum Gespräch getroffen, um über Atmosphären aus der Perspektive der Filmpraxis zu sprechen.
Hier zum vollständigen Interview

Instead of in memoriam: David Lynch and the Optical
Unconscious

In an incident of unknown foreshadowing, CATNEMI’s PI Steffen Hven was working on an article about the unique atmosphere in the films of the recently deceased David Lynch, just when the news of his death reached the CATNEMI team. The article has now been published in the Giornale di filosofia, vol. 7/2024 and is Open Access to be read here: https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/article/view/4753/3677 

©Richard Dumas

David Lynch’s films are an outstanding example of cinematic atmosphere that transmits  by operators of the medium film itself like camera angles, slow- and fast motion, narration and media itself like music, VHS tapes or a doorbell intercom. Steffen Hven approaches the “uncanny”, “weird”, “dreamlike”, “eerie”, and “strange” Lynchian atmospheres by examining them through the lenses of Benjamin’s concept of the optical unconscious and his media theory.