Projects
The essay film as an ecological detective KU Leuven
Through Film History the essay film moves fluently across different genres. Throughout the history of the film essay genre we can find multiple interesting cross-pollinations between film noir, science fiction, western and documentary. In this doctoral research I will attempt to focus on the possible cohesion between the detective genre and the essay film.
This research follows from some pertinent ecological questions that are being ...
Film in bezet België, 1940-1944: tweede wereldoorlog cinema cultuur in context. KU Leuven
Film in Occupied Belgium, 1940-1944 'is the title of a Dutch-, French- and English-language portal site that, in accordance with the Digital Humanities approach to work with' open sources', both the data and the results of more than 15 years of research on release film in occupied Belgium. The general public can find out if there were cinemas in a certain region during the occupation, where they were, how big they were and what films they ...
Film School Time KU Leuven
The PhD project researches the relation between attention and distraction in digital, networked times through the making of a film essay within the educational environment of the film department at LUCA School of Arts.
Both school and cinema carry the potential to open the world, to arouse interest though establishing an indeterminate time in which attentive waiting/awaiting attention can materialise. This potential is put to the test ...
Towards Vera, the Girl Next Door. A study on the essay film as a personal journey into a neighborhood’s archaeology KU Leuven
Within the context of the doctoral project ‘Towards Vera’, I will create an essay film and develop a moving image methodology in between documentary film and archaeological theory, the two main fields of my expertise. My research departs from a random encounter, the diary of a young woman called Vera, dating back to 1961, which I found in the streets of my neighborhood, in the center of Athens. Much like a contemporary archaeological find, ...
Beyond Petroleum. Reimagining Energy in Contemporary Film and Literature Ghent University
Like climate change, the shift to alternative energy sources is not just a technological challenge but a cultural issue too, necessitating a rethinking of dominant values, narratives and cultural ideas. One important development is the emergence of the ‘energy humanities’, a subfield that examines how cultural artefacts like movies and literary texts reflect on particular sources and uses of energy. Upon closer inspection, however, the field ...
Cultures of Spectacle. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research on film, theatre, dance and musical performance. University of Antwerp
Cinema and diaspora. A comparative study of diaspora film cultures in Antwerp: Indian, North African, Turkish and Jewish cinema. Ghent University
This projects aims at researching diaspora film cultures of etnic minorities in Belgium. Using a case study (Antwerp) Indian, North African, Turkish and Jewish film cultures are analysed and compared. A structural analysis (distribution and exploitation) are combined with audience studies. Especially the way these film cultures are part of the construction of a cultural identity are stressed in this research.