Projects
Reviving, Boosting, Optimising and Transforming European Film Competitiveness - REBOOT Ghent University
This project aims to connect the existing strengths, identify and overcome weaknesses and plan for future competitiveness in the fields of policy, practice and experience. More concretely, the project’s objectives are, on the one hand, to explore the long-standing strengths and pervasive gaps in European competitiveness and policies for competitiveness This includes ways of ‘measuring’ ‘analysing’ and ‘evaluating’ the impact of policies and ...
Screening the Benelux: A comparative research project on film policy and (trans)national identity in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg University of Antwerp
Made in Flanders? A research project on contemporary film policy and national identity in Flanders (1999-2015). University of Antwerp
Historical film as a critical palimpsest. KU Leuven
Antwerp Cinema City. A media-historical investigation into the post-war evolution of film exhibition and reception in the city of Antwerp (1945-2010) with a focus on the Rex-group. University of Antwerp
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, ...
Film, media and nation-building in Flanders. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Roel Vande Winkel: Film exhibition and cinema going in occupied Belgium, 1940-1944 KU Leuven
For many years, Prof. dr. Roel Vande Winkel has been researching film screenings and cinema visits in occupied Belgium (1940-1944) during the Second World War. He has published on this at national and international level. Thanks to the call for Valorisation Initiatives of the Humanities and Social Sciences Group, he was able to launch the website www.cinema-in-occupied-belgium.be in November 2020 and thus share a large part of its research ...