The project discusses a comprehensive set of Czech films (including co-productions) on the topic of the Holocaust made between 1989 and 2019. The objective of this analysis is to discuss the theme of Holocaust representation using Czech films as an example in a theoretical relation between narrative cinema and history. This applies primarily to the […]
The impact of automation and artificial intelligence is currently discussed primarily in the fields of industrial production, logistics, military, and financial services. However, it affects creative industries and arts just as much: machine vision is a topic that attracts the attention of many visual artists, and it is also a challenge for traditional procedures and […]
The core of the project is preparing a publication focusing primarily on largely unknown and unfilmed scripts from the heritage of Ester Krumbachova, a theatre and film designer and scriptwriter, sometimes referred to as a “Grey Eminence” of the Czech cinema of the 1960s, and writing an introductory study on her screenwriting output. The study […]
The research project focused on the history of FAMU Studio from 1960 to 1989. Its objective was to map its institutional development in the specific political/historical situations in a more in-depth way as well as (perhaps primarily) to answer other research questions aimed at the interpretation of the development in the perception of FAMU Studio […]
The project maps a unique theme of film history — the corpus of arthouse films produced by the pharmaceutical company Sandoz. The Sandoz laboratories, founded in 1886, were the first to synthetize LSD and engaged in its research and production until as late as 1960s, the period during which the films under question were produced. […]
Dolby Atmos is Dolby’s latest format for the reproduction of sound in cinema halls. Dolby refers to it as an ‘immersive” spatial format based on its use of ceiling loudspeakers and an object-based approach to audio processing, which increases the number of channels from 5 to 128 (+ LFE). Despite the obviously interesting technical specifications, […]
The Film and TV School of AMU (FAMU) received a prestigious 5-year research grant from the Czech Science Foundation, “Operational Images and VisualCulture: Media-Archaeological Investigations”, 2019-2023. The project will be implemented at the Department of Photography of FAMU. The project examines contemporary visual cultures through the concept of operative image. Contrary to the original meaning […]
This academic site of DAMU was founded in 2001 on the initiative of Professor Ivan Vyskočil, the period Head of the Department of Authorial Acting and Pedagogy. The mission of the The Institute for Research and Study of Authorial Acting is research into acting in general and its prerequisites, with an emphasis on authorial acting, […]
This research and art research Institute focuses on research into creation in scenic arts in the age of technological media with an emphasis on the actual process of creation and reflecting on creation. It guarantees doctoral studies in stage design and theory of creation in scenic arts (scenology), which are open to graduates of DAMU […]
The Institute is a faculty-wide research, art research and study site. It resulted from the transformation of the Research Workplace of the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre founded in 2009. The project Interdisciplinary Research of Stage Component Interaction in Puppet and Alternative Theatre and in Theatre in Special Needs Groups pursues the principal research objective […]