Tacit Cinematic Knowledge: Approaches and Practices

Guilherme Machado holds a doctorate in Film and Media Studies. He is a former member of the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt (2019–21). His research deals with the visual culture of labor and the epistemological implications of visual techniques and technologies used to control the production and circulation of labor-related knowledge.

Rebecca Puchta is a PhD candidate in Film and Media Studies and a former member of the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt (2017–20). Situated at the intersection of film and cultural studies, her doctoral research project investigates representations of big data and surveillance in documentary filmmaking in the postSnowden era.

Marin Reljić holds a doctorate in Musicology and Film Studies and is a former member of the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt (2017–20). He was the first recipient of the Gisela and Peter W. Schatt Foundation’s scholarship. His postdoctoral project focuses on the interface between music/musicology and ecology.

Larissa Fischer is a PhD candidate and research fellow at the Institute of Sociology at the RWTH Aachen University. She currently works on the project “Sociotechnical Systems of Anticipatory Truth Verification in the Field of Airport Security,” funded by the German Research Foundation. Her research interests include cultural sociology, qualitative methods, science and technology studies, visual culture, and science fiction

Veena Hariharan is associate professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is currently Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she is working on her project on nonhuman-human entanglements in cinema and new media. Her research focuses on documentary, non-fiction cinema, and the environment.

Vinzenz Hediger is professor of Cinema Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt where he directs the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film.” He is a principal investigator at the Forschungszentrum Normative Orders and codirector of the research project “ConTrust – Conflict and Trust in Political Life.” His research interests include marginal film forms, utility films, and the film trailer format.

Andrea Mariani is assistant professor in Film Studies at the University of Udine. He is a member of the Material Archival Studies Network and of the SSHRC project “International Amateur Cinema Between the Wars (1919–39).” His research and teaching focus on media theory, film philology, Italian amateur and experimental cinema, and media archaeology.

Bettina Paul is a senior researcher and lecturer in Criminology at the Department of Social Science at Hamburg University. Her current research is inspired by the intersection of science and technology and cultural animal studies. It centres around interspecies awareness, multispecies knowledge production, sociotechnical imaginations, and the polychronicity of technologies as in the case of truth technologies.

Jelena Rakin is a senior researcher and lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Zurich. She is currently working on her second book on the aesthetics of images of the cosmos, examining the convergence of scientific and magical visual repertoires in these images. Her research and artistic practices deal with imaging techniques and visual epistemologies. She is a member of the University of Zurich Space Hub.

R. Haritha is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Hyderabad. She is currently working on a research project tentatively entitled Digital Turn in Cinema: Reconfigurations in Cinemas of Kerala Post-2000. Her research 267 focuses on digital cinephilia, minor cinema, and intermediality.

Claire Salles holds a doctorate in Film and Media Studies (Sorbonne Nouvelle University). She works on feminist ecocriticism of moving images. Her research focuses on the imaginaries of telecommunication and pregnancy. She is part of the feminist research collective Les Jaseuses, where she explores alternative entanglements.

Henning Schmidgen is professor of Media Theory and History of Science at Bauhaus University Weimar. He has worked extensively on the machines of Félix Guattari, the concepts of Georges Canguilhem, and the problem of time in laboratory psychology.

Felix M. Simon is a communication researcher and doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), Knight Fellow at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and an affiliate at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also works as a research assistant at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) and regularly writes and comments on technology, media, and politics for various international outlets.

(Luiz) Felipe Soares is professor of Cinema Studies at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. His research deals with film music, literary theory, and image theory. After a sabbatical researching Sergei Eisenstein at King’s College London (2015), he is now conducting his second doctoral research project in Music at Santa Catarina State University, dealing with Sergei Prokofiev’s music for Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible.

Benoît Turquety is professor in Film Studies at the University Paris 8. He is working on the history and geography of media technology, from a perspective informed by Gilbert Simondon and historical epistemology.