THE MOVEMENT MOVEMENT - Histories of Microanalysis at the Intersection of Film, Science, and Art - Philipps-Universität Marburg
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THE
MOVEMENT
MOVEMENT
Histories of Microanalysis
at the Intersection of Film,
Science, and Art
June 24 – 26, 2021
Philipps-Universität Marburg (Virtual Conference)
Organizers:
Henning Engelke and Sophia Gräfe,
DFG-Heisenberg-Project
“Transdisciplinary Networks of Media Knowledge”
German Research Foundation
THE MOVEMENT MOVEMENT The desire to study the motion
of humans and other animals is
“visible, yet unseen” phenomena
that sometimes lasted for only frac-
ing arts in the 1960s and 1970s
across the disciplines of film and
deeply embedded in the tech- tions of a second, film promised to media studies, history of science,
Histories of Microanalysis at the Intersection of Film, Science and Art
nological, social and aesthetic open a window onto the microtem- visual anthropology and art history.
histories of film. For a long time, the poralities and processuality of so- It addresses questions of science
focus was on individual behavior cial systems. policy, epistemologies of the mov-
and individual actors. This changed ing image, scales of observation,
in the 1950s and 1960s when an- But such analysis also reflected and interrelations between analyt-
thropologists, psychologists, lingu- back on the (micro-)temporali- ical and aesthetic procedures. It
ists, sociologists and ethologists in- ties of film itself. This point was also addresses the question of how
creasingly turned to film to analyze not lost on experimental filmmak- film was integrated, in various ways,
movement as an element in sys- ers like Hollis Frampton, who drew into wider media assemblages/en-
tems of social interaction. on studies of movement interac- vironments, including notational
tion in his theoretical and aesthet- systems, viewing equipment, dia-
Informed by cybernetics, systems ic reflections on film. The field of grams, and artistic performances.
theory and structural linguistics, interaction studies also overlap-
researchers such as Ray L. Bird- ped with developments in con- Considering the entanglements of
whistell, Gregory Bateson, Niko- temporary dance and performance cinematic movement, movement
laas Tinbergen and Adam Kendon art, drawing choreographers like interaction research and artistic
looked for patterns in what they Irmgard Bartenieff and Forrestine practices, the conference seeks to
regarded as the continuous, mul- Paulay into the circles of communi- open an historical perspective on
ti-sensorial stream of interaction/ cation research, while also influenc- recent debates on media change
communication behavior. Film and ing aesthetic approaches to dance and the relocation of film.
later video became important tools and performance.
to tap into this stream, to stabilize The conference is part of the DFG
it and facilitate close attention to This conference aims at exploring research project “Transdisciplinary
minute details through repeated these often overlooked intersec- Networks of Media Knowledge” at
viewings of brief stretches of inter- tions of social science, ethology, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
action. Bringing to consciousness experimental film and the perform-
Thursday, June 24, 2021 Friday, June 25, 2021 Saturday, June 26, 2021
4:00pm – 4:15pm CET 1:00pm – 3:30pm CET 2:00pm – 4:30pm CET
Welcome Note Session 2: Archiving Movement: the Göttingen Session 4: Movement, Art, and Cinematic
Institute for Scientific Film (IWF) Ecologies
– Malte Hagener (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
– Igor Karim (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), – Stefanie Bräuer (Universität Basel),
4:15pm – 4:35pm CET Camera Movement as Exploration of the Body – or Electronics in Experimental Animation:
Introduction How Gestures Construct Personhood During Para-Cinematic Practices and Sites
Documentary Filmmaking – Ken Eisenstein (Bucknell University),
– Sophia Gräfe and Henning Engelke
– Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Series, Row Roe Micro Your Tod:
(Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Comparison, Nature: Biology of Human Behavior and Hollis Frampton and the Currents of Time
5:00pm – 6:00pm CET Cinematic Method in Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt’s Human – Eszter Polonyi (University of Nova Gorica),
Session 1: Policies, Practices, and Experiences of Ethology Film Archive Between Film and Graphic Arrangement:
Studying Microrealities – Oliver Gaycken (University of Maryland), The Encyclo- Thom Andersen’s Flicker
Keynote address paedia Cinematographica as Microanalytic Archive
Moderator: Yvonne Zimmermann
– Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania), Moderator: Malte Hagener (Philipps-Universität Marburg) (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
“Meticulous student of the real”: Goffman’s
4:30pm – 7:00pm CET 5:00pm – 7:30pm CET
Lessons for Queer Studies
Session 3: Politics, Gender, and Therapy Session 5: Media of Microanalysis
9:00pm CET – Katie Joice (Birkbeck, University of London), – Michael Lempert (University of
Film Screening Mothering in the Frame: Cinematic Microanalysis and Michigan), Small Talk: Media and the
Maring in Motion (Allison Jablonko, 1968, 16’) and foot- the Pathogenic Mother 1945-67 Microscopic Science of Conversation
age from Allison Jablonko’s and Naomi Faik-Simet’s – Whitney Laemmli (Carnegie Mellon University), – Seth Barry Watter (eikones, Basel),
recent research in Papua New Guinea When Words Fail: Movement Notation, Minimal Units and Good Vibrations:
Trauma, and Therapeutic Practice in the The Work of Paul Byers
10:00pm – 11:00pm CET Post-WWII United States Moderator: Lena Trüper
Panel discussion: Movement and Dance Research in – Peter Sachs Collopy (California Institute of (University of California, Los Angeles)
Papua New Guinea: Lived Experience, Technology), “Pass Through the Barrier of the Skin”:
7:45pm – 8:30pm CET
Politics and Pedagogy Video and Microanalysis at the Boundaries of the Self
Closing Discussion
– Allison Jablonko (Independent Researcher, Moderator: Erhard Schüttpelz (Universität Siegen)
Please register here, until June 21, 2021:
Keene, NH) https://tinyurl.com/9fe29xnf
in conversation with 8:00pm – 9:00pm CET Further information:
– Naomi Faik-Simet (Institute of Papua New Guinea Artist Talk and Screening https://tinyurl.com/4zy5nmjd
Studies, Papua New Guinea)
Illustrations:
– Hannes Rickli (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), Jacques Van Vlack: Filming Psychotherapy from the View-Point
Moderator: Henning Engelke Videograms of Experimentation: of a Research Cinematographer. In: Louis A. Gottschalk/Arthur
H. Auerbach (ed.): Methods of Research in Psychotherapy.
(Philipps-Universität Marburg) Animal-Human-Media Constellations in Biological New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1966.
Research Films Design: Anne Krieger
Moderator: Sophia Gräfe (Philipps-Universität Marburg) Conference Assistants: Nora Neuhaus und Paul Egerlandt
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