Overview of courses and seminars led by the team (2024-2025)
Courses
Prof. Johannes Binotto
- BA Seminar Textlektüre, Videonotiz, Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU), Fall 2025.
- BA Seminar Film History, Film Theory, Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU), Spring 2025.
- PHD Lecture and Workshop Patterns and Performances. Experimental Video Essay in Times of Artificial Intelligence, IULM University, Milan, 11-12 March 2025.
Dr. Evelyn Kreutzer
- Working with Surfaces, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Winter 2025.
Prof. Kevin B. Lee
- Preparing for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2026.
- Digital Screen Futures, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2025.
- Video Essay for Communication, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2025.
- REAL Academy at Locarno Film Festival, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2025.
- Film Festival Economies and Ecologies, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2025.
- Video Essay Atelier – Spatial Practices of the Video Essay, with Silvia Cipelletti, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, 2025.
- Preparing for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2024.
- Video Essay for Communications, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2024.
- Patterns and Performances. Experimental Video Essay in Times of Artificial Intelligence, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2024.
- Video Essay Atelier – Borders, Boundaries and Ethics, with Silvia Cipelletti, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, 2024.
Silvia Cipelletti
- Video Essay Atelier: Spatial Practices of the Video Essay, with Kevin B. Lee, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, 2025.
- Video Essay Atelier: Borders, Boundaries and Ethics, with Kevin B. Lee, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, 2024.
Marine de Dardel
- Design Studio, Teaching Assistant/Organizer, Voluptas Chair for Architecture and Design, ETH Zürich, 2024.
- Research Fellow in charge of publications, collaborations with the ZHdK Faculty of Game Design, ETH Zürich and ZHdK, 2024.
Seminars
Prof. Johannes Binotto
- Guest lecture on Video Essays and poetry, Hochschule Luzern (HSLU), Fall 2025.
- Bodies in Space. The Video Essay as Placement, MA Visual Communication (hosted by Joseph Popper), ZHdK, October 2025.
- Videographic Film Analysis, BA Seminar, Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU), Spring 2025.
Dr. Evelyn Kreutzer
- Guest lecture on AI media, in Prof. Kevin B. Lee’s Video Essay Atelier and Cinematic Futures graduate courses, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, 2025.
- Guest lecture on Video Essays and poetry, in Prof. Johannes Binotto’s seminar, Hochschule Luzern (HSLU), Fall 2025.
- Guest lecture Moving Poems Collection, in Prof. Alan O’Leary introductory film production class, Aarhus University, 2024.
- Guest lecture and videographic mentor, in Prof. John Gibbs’s internal summer school for faculty, University of Reading, 2024.
- Guest lecture for the Video Essay Atelier (Prof. Kevin B. Lee and Silvia Cipelletti) on how videographic criticism lives in different fields of production (academia, art installations, popular online criticism), Università della Svizzera italiana, 2024.
Prof. Kevin B. Lee
- Guest lecture on deskop documentary, MFA Project Tutorial, Standford University, Autumn 2025.
- DocLisboa x UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (UNDO) Filmmaking Seminar, DocLisboa Film Festival, October 2025.
- Leader of the workshop Video Essays for Academic Professionals, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), September 2023-June 2024.
- Masterclass Social Confrontations in Cinema, “L’immagine e la parola”, Locarno, 16 March 2024.