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Ñuuyii (2026)
Digital Artefact
Jansen, I. Ñuuyii. [Film]

The project explores Indigenous Futurisms from a practice-based film perspective, focusing on Indigenous ideas (Mixtec) about our relation to earth. The short film is a sci-fi about a Mixtec space-traveller in the future who listens to recordings of... Read More about Ñuuyii.

Sound Dramaturgy (2025)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2025). Sound Dramaturgy. In M. Kowalski, L. Cláudio Ribeiro, S. Larson Guerra, E. Rusinova, & J. H. Whalley (Eds.), Teaching Sound: Aesthetics & Praxis. CILECT

Sound dramaturgy as part of the aesthetic design of either a film or a Virtual Reality (VR) experience is invisible, but most relevant, although often overlooked. As a sound person and academic, I have long been interested in the dramaturgical releva... Read More about Sound Dramaturgy.

The Apple & Biscuit Show – Episode 17: “Why Hearing Means Feeling: Designing Sound for the Real World” (2025)
Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2025). The Apple & Biscuit Show – Episode 17: “Why Hearing Means Feeling: Designing Sound for the Real World”. [Podcast]

This podcast episode features Dr Iain McGregor in conversation with Dr Neil Hillman and Jason Nicholas, discussing the role of perceptual audio in shaping trust, safety, and meaning. Topics include the use of sound in protest, public broadcasting, an... Read More about The Apple & Biscuit Show – Episode 17: “Why Hearing Means Feeling: Designing Sound for the Real World”.

Berlinale 75: A posteriori (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2025). Berlinale 75: A posteriori

The first half of a long-form report I wrote after attending the 75° of the Berlinale. I discuss the ongoing currency of some of the representational strategies I had identified in 2024, and offer critical remarks on a few notable films in the progra... Read More about Berlinale 75: A posteriori.

Berlinale 75: Fiabe e pastiche (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2025). Berlinale 75: Fiabe e pastiche

In the second half of my long-form report from the 2025 edition of the Berlinale, I discuss the merits and limitations of a maximalist tendency displayed by several films included in the programme. I then contrast these titles with others that rely m... Read More about Berlinale 75: Fiabe e pastiche.

Deepa Mehta’s Frauenfiguren in FIRE - EARTH - WATER (2025)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). Deepa Mehta’s Frauenfiguren in FIRE - EARTH - WATER. In C. Lang, & K. Nühlen (Eds.), Frauen in der Drehbucharbeit: Geschichte, Produktion, Ästhetik. De Gruyter

In my chapter, I will give an impression of the significance of the trilogy in relation to a female author's particular perspective on India's independence from Britain and the division of society and also religious radicalisation that accompanied it... Read More about Deepa Mehta’s Frauenfiguren in FIRE - EARTH - WATER.

Wittgenstein's Holiday (2025)
Digital Artefact
Martin, S. (2025). Wittgenstein's Holiday. [Film]

Found footage poetry film, using holiday movies shot in the lifetime of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951).

The 21st Century film, TV and media school: Teaching Documentary for the 21st Century (2024)
Book
Stutterheim, K., Cammaer, G., Mortimer, R., Campbell, K., & Meissner, N. (Eds.). (2024). The 21st Century film, TV and media school: Teaching Documentary for the 21st Century. CILECT

Teaching Documentary spans a broad field of approaches and specifications within a genre that has been in constant change and development throughout its history. Documentary film is an art form and a practice, although often received or interpreted a... Read More about The 21st Century film, TV and media school: Teaching Documentary for the 21st Century.

DOK Leipzig 2024: Il punto di equilibrio (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2024). DOK Leipzig 2024: Il punto di equilibrio

A long-form review on the 2024 edition of the Leipzig festival of animation and documentary cinema.

Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz (2024)
Book Chapter
Jansen, I. (2024). Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz. In E. Blackmore, K. Knopf, W. G. Pearson, & C. Wieser-Cox (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003303022-18

This chapter discusses different films by Mixtec filmmakers Ángeles Cruz and Nicolas Rojas Sánchez. Both filmmakers have received several national and international awards for their work. The films by Ángeles Cruz as well as the films by Nicolas Roja... Read More about Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz.

Authentizität und Dokumentarfilm: Was bedeutet das? (2024)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). Authentizität und Dokumentarfilm: Was bedeutet das?. In Kurt Schwitter Symposium - Authentizität. Transcript Verlag

Authentizität im Dokumentarfilm wird seit längerem im Diskurs um das Genre Dokumentarfilm viel diskutiert. Der Begriff Authentizität, wie bereits in den anderen Beiträgen diskutiert, wird je nach akademischer Disziplin, in der die Autor*innen spezial... Read More about Authentizität und Dokumentarfilm: Was bedeutet das?.

Report on the International Communication and Market Performance of Chinese Films in 2023 (2024)
Book Chapter
Li, Q. (2024). Report on the International Communication and Market Performance of Chinese Films in 2023. In J. Mengyu, N. Xingzhen, & Z. Zenghan (Eds.), 全球电影产业发展报告 (2024) / Annual Report on Development of Global Film Industry (2024) (63-89). Social Sciences Academic Press (China)

This report analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by Chinese cinema in overseas markets during 2023, presenting the current development and future prospects of China’s film industry on the international stage, and offering recommendations f... Read More about Report on the International Communication and Market Performance of Chinese Films in 2023.

On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland (2024)
Book Chapter
Bilgrami, S. (2024). On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland. In J. Morrison, & S. Pedersen (Eds.), Silenced Voices and the Media (83-100). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65403-9_6

Despite growing awareness about a lack of diversity across the Scottish screen industries, there is little representation of ethnically diverse characters in Scottish films. South Asian communities appear in the periphery of Scottish cinema where fil... Read More about On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland.

Authentizität und Poetischer Dokumentarfilm (2024)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). Authentizität und Poetischer Dokumentarfilm. In Authentizität in den Medien (25). transcript Verlag

Authentizität im Dokumentarfilm wird seit längerem im Diskurs um das Genre Dokumentarfilm viel diskutiert. Der Begriff Authentizität, wie bereits in den anderen Beiträgen diskutiert, wird je nach akademischer Disziplin, in der die Autor*innen spezial... Read More about Authentizität und Poetischer Dokumentarfilm.

Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Neilan, C. (in press). Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory. Bloomsbury Publishing

Since the emergence of Syd Field’s Screenplay in 1979 and the modern screenwriting gurus that followed, Western cinema has undergone a profound conventionalisation process, deifying the single protagonist quest narrative, with its roots in Aristoteli... Read More about Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’.