Head researcher: Inês Gil
Team:
- Inês Gil (Lusófona University)
- Diog.O'Connell (IADT)
- Teet Teinemaa (BFM)
- Thomas Bøgevald Bjørnsten (VIA)
The project is about the relation between natural/exact sciences and cinema, from 1895 until the beginning of digital era, in Europe. Starting with Marey’s and Muybridge’s experiences on human and animal movement as well as locomotion, film has been since an essential tool for the evolution of science. Scientific films are waiting to be rediscovered in almost every European country to fin a place in the history of cinema. Themes, technologies, and aesthetics evolution are part of the investigation.
The first task is to search the existing material (films and literature) in national and private collections to start a comparative analysis in order to establish a European historiography of scientific cinema.
The project will consider the existing titles in the collections (archives, museums, universities, research institutes) of each European partner to establish a taxonomy of themes. Industrial, educational, medical films are included as well as natural sciences, physics, astronomy, ballistics among others. The interdisciplinary aspect of the project is of first relevance.
