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Sonia Campanini
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschft
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Sonia Campanini is assistant professor of Film Culture in the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where she directs the graduate program Film Culture: Archiving, Programming, Presentation. Her research interests focuses on film archiving and film curatorship, with a special focus on the material, technological, aesthetic and memorial dimensions of audio-visual heritage in a transnational perspective. She co-edited the publication L’archivio/ The Archive and published in Film Studies, Music and The Moving Image, Journal of Film Preservation, The Moving Image. Her upcoming book Film Sound in Preservation and Presentation analyses the sonic dimension of film in relation to preservation and restoration practices and proposes a conceptual definition of film sound based on the concept of trace, material form and performance.  She is currently Principal Investigator in the interdisciplinary project CEDITRAA Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia. Her current research project Remaking Nollywood: Networks of Circulations and Memory Constructions looks at how Nigerian contemporary film and audiovisual production is reviving and reappropriating its own film heritage of the Video Nollywood Era through remakes and sequels.
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Film Sound in Preservation and Presentation
ISBN 978-90-6464-765-9
, 2014
What is the nature of film sound? How does this nature change through time? How can film sound be...
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What is the nature of film sound? How does this nature change through time? How can film sound be conceptually defined? To address these issues, this work assumes the perspective of film preservation and presentation practices, describing the preservation of early sound systems, as well as the presentation of film sound in the spaces provided by film heritage institutions. The preservation and presentation practices analyzed bring different dimensions of film sound to the fore, such as its material, human, technologi- cal, institutional, experiential, and memorial dimensions. The definition of film sound is constructed around the concepts of material form, trace, and performance, which explain its transitory nature and its many facets.
Alessandro Bordina, Sonia Campanini, Andrea Mariani (eds.), The Archive/L’Archivio, FilmForum 2011 Udine Conference Proceedings, International edition, Forum, Udine 2012, ISBN: 978-88-8420-717-3
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Papers by Sonia Campanini
Screen-Camera-Cars
Film Studies
Self-driving cars have long been depicted in cinematic narratives, across genres from science fic...
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Self-driving cars have long been depicted in cinematic narratives, across genres from science fiction films to fantasy films. In some cases, a self-driving car is personified as one of the main characters. This article examines cinematic representations and imaginaries in order to understand the development of the self-driving technology and its integration in contemporary societies, drawing on examples such as The Love Bug, Knight Rider, Minority Report and I, Robot. Conceptually and methodologically, the article combines close readings of films with technological concerns and theoretical considerations, in an attempt to grasp the entanglement of cinematographic imaginaries, audiovisual technologies, artificial intelligence and human interactions that characterise the introduction of self-driving cars in contemporary societies. The human–AI machine interaction is considered both on technological and theoretical levels. Issues of automation, agency and disengagement are traced in ci...
Il Cabinet di Caligari come spazio tipologico e culturale
Cinema Tedesco
, 2019
Exposed Auto-Mobility: Self-Driving Cars on Stage
Exposing the Moving Image. The Cinematic Medium Across World Fairs, Cultural Exhibition and Art Museums
, 2019
Understanding Early Film Sound: the Biophon Sound-On-Disc System
Exposing the Film Apparatus: The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
, 2016
Imagine opening the gates to a vault full of media apparatuses and letting loose thirty-two inter...
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Imagine opening the gates to a vault full of media apparatuses and letting loose thirty-two international media scholars and professionals on its heterogeneous content... Exposing the Film Apparatus collects the results of such an experiment. This book addresses the keen awareness of the prominence of media technologies in our culture in the last two centuries, while also showing how such an awareness is impacting the curatorial consciousness of those working in film archives, technology, and media museums today. Combining a variety of approaches with insightful perspectives of professionals working on a wide range of film technology-related issues, Exposing the Film Apparatus reveals the richness, diversity, and relevance of the topic for archivists, curators, projectionists, theorists, film and media historians, media artists, educationists and film students today. If dreams come true! The long desired collaboration between film archivists and film scholars has never been as fully realized as in this work, which is, itself, a genuine "research laboratory." Adopting an approach that constantly combines fundamental and applied research, the "materiality of the medium" is studied here in an entirely novel way. Starting with the digital turn, the essential problems of technique and technology have (finally!) returned to academic zeitgeist. ANDRÉ GAUDREAULT CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL This excellent collection fizzes with new approaches to understanding the apparatuses of cinema. These machines once gave life to images; now it must be our mission to give life back to these machines.
If Things Could Talk: The Open Side of Objects
The Open Future, MCD – Musiques & Cultures Digitales
, 2012
Teaching Film Sound as Material Form
Music and The Moving Image, vol. 5, no. 2
, 2012
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Minding the Materiality of Film: The Frankfurt Program "Film Culture: Archiving, Programming, Presentation"
Synoptique
, 2018
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The Deutsches Filminstitut actively engages in archiving, presentation, and cultural programs, emphasizing materiality as a key task.
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Conference Presentations by Sonia Campanini
Halfmoon Sounds, Voice Records and Ghost’s Stories
Mapping Spaces, Sounding Places: Geographies of Sound in Audiovisual Media
, 2019
Self-driving Auto(mata): Audiovisuality, Assemblage and Performance
Moving Pictures, Living Machines: Automation, Animation and the Imitation of Life in Cinema and Media
, 2019
laut Archiv: Reframing Voice Documents and Sound Memories
Akustische Dokumente/Sonic Documents
, 2019
Circulating Archival Films in Italy: A Fruitful Cooperation Between Film Archives, Film Festivals, Film Industry and Universities
Archives for Creativity, Zuma Film Festival, Abuja
, 2018
Notes on the Maschine-Mensch: BMW Multimedia Show at 2017 International Automobile Exhibition in Frankfurt
Exposing the Moving Image: the Cinematic Medium across World Fairs, Art Museums, and Cultural Exhibitions.
, 2018
The Materiality of Sound: An Approach in Teaching Film Sound
Can We Learn Cinema? Filmforum International Film Studies Conference, Udine
, 2012
Teaching Film Sound as Material Form
Music and the Moving Image VI, New York University
, 2011
Talks by Sonia Campanini
Agnès Varda, Gleaner of Images and Sounds
Selbstporträts von Anderen. Die Filme von Agnès Varda
, 2016
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