Guest: Christine Stenzer
Date: 2014-07-13 14:00 ~ 2014-07-13 15:30
Address: Bldg.18, Moganshan Rd. Shanghai
Language: English (with Chinese translation)
Free for admission. Please make reservation viamembership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation)
About Lecture:
In a great variety of films dating from the early pioneering days through to contemporary digital productions, in the most diverse genres, countries and in both independent and commercial contexts, we can note writing in film, the effect of which is by no means rigid and un-filmic, and reaches way beyond what is commonly expected from writing in film – and from writing and film in general. The transfer to the filmic medium facilitates outward forms that had hitherto remained unknown in the history of writing. It is the writing that reflects the diverse developmental tendencies in the moving image media. Writing is not at all exhausted with ist conventional carrier and storage function of semantic information. By means of the appropriate design and emphasis of visual and kinetic dimensions, not only is it possible to mediate linguistic information with greater precision, but non-linguistic, atmospheric, emotional effects can also be evoked. The viewer’s/reader’s attention is redirected from the content to the aesthetic aspect of written signs and to his own attitudes towards the use of the media of writing AND film. Schriftfilme // Typemotion Films make visible what otherwise remains invisible in conventionally operating media usage: the media in their mediality, their materiality, their functional mechanisms, their differences and commonalities. Ultimately, Schriftfilme // Typemotion Films make the perception of our own perception visible.
About Speaker:
Christine Stenzer (PhD Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) works as freelance project manager, curator, author and editor with a thematic focus on cinema, arts, new media, and investment in art. She worked as Assistant Manager and Head of Public Relations and Marketing for Film production company and was part of the Special Projects Unit of the United Nations Headquarter New York supervising and co-ordinating the on-location filming of the feature film The Interpreter (director: S. Pollack, 2005). She is co-curator and co-editor of the international exhibition and edition-project Schriftfilme | Typemotion.
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