Movie Circuits. Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology

Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology attempts to grasp media in the making. It delves into the underbelly of cinema in order to explore how images circulate and apparatus crystallize across different material formations. The indisciplinary experience of curators and projectionists provides a means to suspend traditional film studies and engage with the medium as it happens, as a continuing, self-differing mess. From contemporary art exhibitions to pirate screenings, research and practice come together in a vibrant form of media scholarship, built from the angle of cinema's functionaries - a call to reinvent the medium from within.

Gabriel Menotti is a lecturer in Film and Multimedia at UFES (Brazil). He holds a PhD from Goldsmiths (University of London).

Introduction: Blind optics, Chapter 1: What is a movie? Chapter 2: The becoming of cinema Chapter 3: Projection studies Chapter 4: Performing medium specificities Chapter 5: Denied Distances, Comprehensive Bibliography, Acknowledgements