Dr. Sarine Waltenspül
Project Manager SNSF Project Visualpedia
T +41 41 229 56 06 • Room 3.A10
sarine.waltenspuel@unilu.ch
CV
As a media and knowledge historian specializing in the 20th/21st century, I deal with film as a technical, aesthetic, and epistemic medium, with forms of collaborative research, and with formats of scientific-artistic publishing under the conditions of the digital.
My book “Modelle im Film. Eine kleine Kinogeschichte,” (2024, diaphanes) explores the history of cinema through the lens of small, seemingly marginal, and often overlooked material objects, rather than focusing solely on great directors, expensive films, ingenious inventions, and much-cited theories.
Currently, I am completing my second book “Fließend. Die Geschichte eines wissenschaftlichen Films”, which I co-authored with Mario Schulze. The book traces the movements of a largely unknown scientific film from fluid dynamics through the 20th century, and examines the epistemic, aesthetic, and political role of film in the sciences.
Within the project “Visualpedia. ‘Atlas Encyclopaedia Cinematographica’ and the Visual Science and Technology Studies”, I am analyzing the history of the film collection Encyclopaedia Cinematographica (EC), the Institute for Scientific Film (IWF), and its Nazi predecessor institution from a historical-critical perspective.
My research is also practice-oriented. Together with Christoph Oeschger and Mario Schulze, I directed the essay film “Unlearning Flow” (2019), which has been invited to several international festivals. Furthermore, I am currently curating the research-based exhibition “Fadenspiele / String Figures” together with Mario Schulze, which will open at the Museum Tinguely Basel in November 2024, and I am working with him and Moritz Greiner-Petter on various interfaces to activate the EC films.
