Projects

Hardly anywhere else is the topical and methodological wealth of research at the Film University more evident than in the creative proliferation of postgraduate qualification projects. At the same time, these projects, their development, and their success are the touchstone for the quality of our support for young talent. The projects are in a constant state of flux until they are completed, which is why the following overview offers only a snapshot. Completed and published dissertations can also be found under Publications and in the library catalog.

2017 - 2023 Julia Dufek: Beyond Vision - a holistic investigation of creative figurative creation processes in three-dimensional space
An artistic-scientific investigation of creative, figurative creation processes in analogue and digital three-dimensional space and the relevance of…
2017 - 2023 Rand Beiruty: Representing Refugees in Nonfiction Film: Ethical and Social Responsibilities of Documentary Filmmakers Towards Their Subjects in Theory and Practice
(Re)presenting Refugees in Nonfiction Film: My Journey Towards A Participatory Approach
2017 - 2023 Stephan Ahrens: Skyscraper and handbag. A history of film museum
Before cinema, there were already museum exhibitions with film-related objects. The historical perspective on the film museum shows its ever-changing…
2016 Tatiana Astafeva: Touching Distance: Ostalgie in German Cinema after the Reunification
The project conceptualizes ostalgie from the cognitive-phenomenological approach as an experience of distance and approaches ostalgie as a film…
2016 - 2022 Michael Ufer: Temporal Forms of Love. The Intimacies of Cinematic and Serial Movement Images
The project is concerned with the interplay of love, its figurations, and the medium of the movement image. Not least, the poetological theory and…
2016 - 2022 Alida Lindemann: The influence of emigrated artists of the Weimar Republic on the contemporary American Film
This study deals with the question of constancy of narrative and visual conventions, emigrated artists of the Weimar Republic have established in the…
2016 - 2022 Hannes Wesselkämper: Spektakel der Oberfläche – Revision eines Konzepts als Modus der Medienästhetik des Films
This project seeks to resolve the often imprecisely used notion of spectacle by outlining its cultural history as well as reflecting on its specific…
2016 - 2022 Christine Lang: Aesthetic vision. Implicit Dramaturgy in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive
The detailed dramaturgical-aesthetic analysis of the film MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) shows on which traditional models the dramaturgy of the film is…