05/01/26
The Catnemi team gives a warm welcome to Ludo de Roo as their new Postdoctoral Researcher during the final phase of the project.
Ludo de Roo studied media studies at the University of Amsterdam and obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). In Sydney, he has taught widely in both philosophy and media theory. His publications combine phenomenological philosophy and ecocinema theory, with research on film-philosophical topics such as elemental mediation, the structure of immersion, and cinematic imagination. He also has a monograph in progress on the notion of the ‘elemental image’ capturing how cinematic images of the elements spark a specific type of imagination that plunges the spectator within cinematic worlds. In May 2026, Ludo has joined CATNEMI as a Postdoctoral Researcher with a focus on investigating how other media forms adopt the operations of cinematic atmosphere.
CATNEMI is looking forward to have Ludo’s expertise on this in the team.
On July 2nd CATNEMI is about to present the next ZeM-Lecture. Under the title „Contaminated Vision: Wolfgang G. Schröter at the Filmfabrik Wolfen“ Katerina Korola from University of Minnesota – Twin Cities will talk about the industrial photography series by Wolfgang G. Schröter that he did around the 1960ies at the largest film factory in Europe, located in the GDR, the VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen. Foregrounding the atmospheric dimensions of Schröter’s photographs, the lecture approaches his series as an unlikely archive that not only reveals the material conditions of photographic production, but also prompts us to reflect on its toxicity, the consequences of which continue to shape life in the region today.
The lecture takes place at
ZeM – Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften
Hermann-Elflein-Straße 18
14467 Potsdam
July 2nd, 5 pm.
Katerina Korola is an Assistant Professor of German Media at the University of Minnesota and a NOMIS Fellow at the eikones Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel. She is completing her first monograph, Picturing the Air: Photography and the Industrial Atmosphere, which tells a history of air pollution as a photographic problem.
find more information here: https://www.zem-brandenburg.de/veranstaltungen/zem-lecture-contaminated-vision-wolfgang-g-schroeter-at-the-filmfabrik-wolfen/
06/12/25
Collected thoughts on current atmosphere research can be found in the current issue of the Marburger MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen magazine, where CATNEMI’s PI Steffen Hven together with his colleague Daniel Yacavone (who’s also co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Atmospheres) published the article „(Re-)Turn to Atmosphere: Zur Ausbreitung der Atmosphäre in den Medienwissenschaften“ which offers a collection of current strains in the field of atmospheric research from its origins of Hermann Schmitz‘ and Gernot Böhme’s writings to recent interdisciplinary approaches from Inga Pollmann or Giuliana Bruno.
Have a look by following this link: https://mediarep.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/a5168a44-2355-4754-a1cb-8990ba68d973/content
11/01/24
The Catnemi Project ist happy to welcome Jamie Lee Moser as a PhD researcher!
Jamie Lee Moser holds a Master of Arts in Film Studies as part of the Netzwerk Cinema Program from the University of Zurich – with exchanges at the Zurich University of the Arts, University of Lausanne, Università della Svizzera italiana and Freie Universität Berlin. She was a student assistant in the digital humanities project «Timeline of Historical Film Colors» by Prof. Dr. Barbara Flückiger at the Department of Film Studies of the University of Zurich, freelancer in the coordination and film viewing department at the International Short Film Festival interfilm Berlin and project-related assistant at the Berliner Festspiele. She held a graduate scholarship at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and is starting from November 2024 as a PhD researcher in the ERC-Project «CATNEMI – Cinematic Atmospheres: Towards a New Ecology of the Moving Image» at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
In her master’s thesis «The Political Quality of Atmosphere in Documentary Film. The Indeterminate and Intangible in Taste of Cement» she investigated the phenomenon of atmosphere in terms of immaterial loss according to Jalal Toufic. Her research focuses primarily on the interdepend
encies between politics, aesthetics and space in film and media art and on the links between phenomenological, post-cinematic and post-humanist approaches in film and media studies.
The Catnemi team is looking forward to work with Jamie Lee Moser on upcoming publications, workshops and videoessays!
