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Professor of film and media history at the University of London's Birkbeck College. He is a specialist in Russian Cinema and on Powell and Pressburger. He collaborated on with exhibition 'Modernism: Designing a New World' at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Programme Events at the Talent Campus:
Ian Christie
Filmmakers from around the world worried that synch sound would destroy their editing strategies at the end of the 1920s - much as some present-day filmmakers also worry that music videos are enforcing a new editing rhythm, helped by the rise of non-linear editing systems. But have the underlying principles of editing really changed?
This lecture will be looking at some classics, from the 1920s to the 1990s, to track the changes. Film publicist Ian Christie is Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London, and teaches regularly at the UK National Film and Television School.
Ian Christie, Noah Falstein, Kees Kasander, Tom Tykwer
In co-operation with Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg.
Be it the travel of cinema spectators into the ancient times of historical films like Tom Tykwers PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER or time-travelling characters as in the Berlinale Generation Kplus contribution CRUSADE IN JEANS , produced by Kees Kasander or popular video games like Ma niac Ma nsion 2: Day of th e Tentacle, designed by Noah Falstein: Fantasy and time-travel are the most popular trends in todays cinema and the internet
media.
This panel will debate the obvious and hidden analogies, moreover it will try to relate answers to the early years of cinema where similar motives intrigued audiences to watch and interact emotionally with media products.