Cinepoetics – Center for Advanced Film Studies

Patricia Pisters

Professor of Media Studies (with specialization in Film Studies) at the University of Amsterdam. She was director of research of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the Faculty of Humanities. Pisters is one of the founding editors of the peer reviewed Open-Access-Journal NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. Her research interests include:
Film-Philosophy, Neuro-filmology, contemporary transnational screen culture and media ecologies. Among her publications are Filming for the Future: The Work of Louis van Gasteren (2016), The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy for Digital Screen Culture (2012) and “Orchestration of the Senses in Yellow: Eisenstein's Fourth Dimension, Memory and Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia” (in: Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia: Thresholds of Empathy with Art, ed. by Daria Martin, 2017).

For the Center for Advanced Film Studies Cinepoetics, the exchange with leading scholars from all over the world is of profound importance.

The fellow program is designed to support academics in their research on audio-visual images and enables them to bring their experience and expertise into the center in order to engage in critical dialogue.

The program is flexible in that it facilitates short-term collaborations as well as longer, project-oriented stays. In addition to inviting exceptional scholars (Senior Fellows) working in the field of research, project-specific calls for proposals explicitly address young academics (Research Fellows and Junior Fellows).

Furthermore, within the framework of selected project foci, the presence of Artists in Residence allows for productive debates with filmmakers and professional artists.