The article "Thinkering with the Pathé Baby: Materiality, histories and (re)use of 9.5mm film", written by DEMA researcher Tim van der Heijden in collaboration with film archivist Mirco Santi, has been published in the latest issue of NECSUS - European Journal of Media Studies.
The article “‘Live Forever in the Kinora’: Motion Photography in between Pre- and Early Cinema”, written by DEMA researcher Tim van der Heijden, has been published in the volume Virtual Worlds in Early Cinema: Devices, Aesthetics and Audiences, edited by Ángel Quintana en Jordi Pons. The volume is a collection of papers, presented at the conference "Virtual Worlds in Early Cinema", organized by the Museu del Cinema and Universitat de Girona from 20 to 21 October, 2021.
The 16/9.5mm cutting and perforation machine of Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern in Switzerland. This device was created by the Swiss amateur filmmaker Paul Goy in the early 1970s.
The article "Replicating the Kinora: 3D modelling and printing as heuristics in digital media history" has been published in Open Access in the new issue of the Journal of Digital History. The article is the result of a fruitful collaboration between DEMA researcher Tim van der Heijden and engineer Claude Wolf from the Department of Engineering of the University of Luxembourg within the context of the DEMA project.
Demonstration of the hand-driven Pathé Baby 9.5mm film projector in use, showing a Felix the Cat film. Recorded in the Media Lab of the University of Luxembourg.
Demonstration of the replica Kinora reel, produced within the DEMA project in collaboration with the Department of Engineering of the University of Luxembourg.
A hands-on demonstration of the Kinora Viewer Replica. This public online event shows the fruits of a recent successful collaboration between the C2DH and the Department of Engineering.…
Demonstration of the replica Kinora viewer, produced within the DEMA project in collaboration with the Department of Engineering of the University of Luxembourg.
In January 2020, I had the opportunity to meet and visit IJsbrand Rogge, a 91-year old filmmaker and collector based in Amsterdam. Mr. Rogge owns an original Kinora…
In November 2019, I visited Bert Cremers, a film collector based in Horst, the Netherlands. Mr. Cremers owns a wonderful collection of 9.5mm and 16mm films, cameras and…
In November 2019, I was in Berlin and visited the famous analogue film and photography shop Click & Surr, founded by Jürgen Lossau in October 2017. Besides Mr.…
In this blog post, I present my post-doctoral research within the DEMA project in which I examine the genealogy of home cinema and amateur moviemaking as early-twentieth century practices by means of an experimental media archaeological approach.
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