Kalani Michell, M.A.

Part of the main teaching staff at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

http://www.tfm.uni-frankfurt.de/Mitarbeiter/Kalani-Michell-M_A_/index.html

Research areas, publications and activities
Kalani Michell is currently completing her dissertation, which explores the ways in which cinema has expanded beyond the traditional space of the theater in the 1960s/70s, practices that are often described by the term “expanded cinema.” Her project focuses on accessibility as a key theme, problem and potential at a time when cinema was becoming accessible through new formats and venues. Her research interests include cinema and media studies, German studies, contemporary art and performance art. She focused on German cinema as an undergraduate student and pursued broader media and moving image studies questions in graduate school. At conferences she explored topics such as comics and storyboarding, sound studies, copyright claims, and the curation of ‘live’ performances through documentation. In essays she has written about reanimating ink stains from a 1960s film through contemporary installation and video art (“Drei (und mehr) Arten”), about a computer game that restages a performance at the Museum of Modern Art (“Anstehen mit Foucault”) and about the circulation of canonical paintings in the set design of porn productions (“I Know It When I See It”). She has forthcoming publications on the schizo East-West history posited in Thomas Heise’s  Barluschke  and on the crisis of vision in Harry Piel’s  Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt.