Events 2021

24. – 25.3.2021

Workshop “Historicizing Platforms: Sources and Streams” (mit Hans-Michael Bock, Issa Clubb, Barbara Klinger und Simone Venturini), XIX International Film and Media Studies MAGIS Spring School (“Living in the Material World: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Past and Present Media Ecologies“), Università degli Studi di Udine

Against the background of the increasing success of streaming as an everyday mode of film experience and the new platform economy, the workshop discusses the history of dealing with film sources and materials in the last decades – from 16 and 35 mm copies to VHS, laser disc and DVD/Blu-ray to streaming platforms. The focus is on changes of the supposedly stable entity of “the film” under the influence of shifting technologies and practices. This includes the materiality and appropriation of cinematic sources as well as the revision and making available of these.