Lectorate FILM
We are pleased to introduce you to FILM as a shared space for inquiry, reflection, and debate.
This lectorate focuses on research in and through film, in the broadest sense of what moving images can be. It aims to connect students and researchers at KABK and KC around this interdisciplinary medium, and to build bridges with students and faculty of Leiden University. A particular interest is to deepen the understanding and practice of film as a discursive medium, as a form of thinking and arguing, as course and discourse.
In the 2024-26 FILM lecture series, we explore the principles of filmmaking through mostly socially engaged films and video works from different periods and cultures. In one year, we start with narrative fiction and eventually arrive at the documentary or beyond; in the next, we move from facts and reasoning towards acted fiction, but always with room for abstraction and experiment. The programme has practical, theoretical, historical, anthropological and political dimensions and invites reflection and debate. FILM is Frame, Image, Language, Movement.
FILM is led by lector Erik Viskil, who is affiliated with Leiden University as academic director of ACPA, and professor of Research and Discourse in Artistic Practice. He is also the chairman of PARC and co-director of ReCNTR, an interdisciplinary research centre aimed at advancing multimodal and audio-visual research methods in the social sciences and humanities. Coordinator of the lectorate is Georgie Brinkman, alumna of the Master Artistic Research of KABK, where she also works as coordinator.
