Prof. Kevin B. Lee
Kevin is leading the ECOLOGIES section in the project. He investigates where video essays are produced and how those circumstances shape how video essays are made. What are the differences in video essays found in festivals, academic events, online journals, video platforms, social media, and museum spaces? How do economic, cultural and technological factors play a role in video essays?
Prof. Johannes Binotto
Johannes is leading the BODIES section in the project. He investigates how videographic research is also an embodied practice, and how the video essay not only allows to investigate the different representations and reconfigurations of bodies within audiovisual culture but also how such an investigation brings into play our own multiple bodies and identities as researchers and artists, inevitably shifting also our own self-understanding.
Dr. Evelyn Kreutzer
Evelyn is leading the MEMORIES section in the project. She investigates how we think about the past through present and future digital means, and how we relate to each others’ memories in videographic form. Which roles do archives take in our digital spaces? And how do we work on, with, and alter them through the vast range of tools of audiovisual manipulation?
Silvia Cipelletti
Silvia is an architect and PhD researcher exploring the interface between architecture and film, landscapes and audio-visual media. Her research employs video essays to investigate transborder and marginal landscapes.
Going beyond spatial definitions, her interest in borders delves into ecologies of learning and shared knowledge about landscapes and border thinking through the audio-visual lens. How can one’s life become a life at the border?
Marine de Dardel
Marine is an architect, visual artist and PhD researcher investigating the liminal range in between substance and form, figuration and disfiguration. Her practice and research focus on corporeality and its iconography in architectural and audio-visual media. Can the repressed, the silenced or the invisible still claim any legitimacy in a world increasingly governed by representation?
Elsa Despoix
Elsa is an architecture student with a background in Information Management and Technology. Her work explores the interplay between architecture and visual media. She is a student assistant for Prof. Kevin B. Lee in the SNSF Project „The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies”. Her video essay, which was selected for the Locarno Film Festival in 2023, investigates the boundaries of women’s representation in ecocinema.