Thursday, November 7
13:00–14:30 OUVERTURE
Daniel Winkler (Heidelberg) and Christian Quendler (Innsbruck): Delocating and Remediating Body Landscapes in Silent Cinema
PAUSE CAFE
15:00–16:30 FRENCH BODY LANDSCAPES
Sabine Schrader (Innsbruck): Madame fait du sport – Frauen, Bewegungen und Grotesken im Frühen Kino Frankreichs
Birgit Wagner (Vienna): Louis Feuillade und Man Ray: populäres vs. avantgardistisches Kino
APERO-BUFFET
18:00 FILM SCREENING (Gloriette Kino Heidelberg)
MISTER RADIO (Dir. Nunzio Malasomma, 1924, 78 min.) – Introduction by Christian Quendler and Daniel Winkler
Friday, November 8
09:00–11:15 TRANSALPINE BODIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Charlotte Bösling (Marburg): Rise and Fall: Narratives of Modernity Through Aesthetics of Falling
Patrick Adamson (St Andrews): “The Way of the World is West“: The Global Trails of Silent-Era Hollywood
Beja Magitházi (ELTE Budapest): Still Bodies and Still (Moving) Images. Landscapes and Post-mortem Bodies in Transylvanian Silent Films and Set Photographs (1913–1918)
PAUSE CAFE
11:45–13:15 MEDITERRANEAN BODY LANDSCAPES
Gisela Febel (Bremen): Eros und Thanatos in der Sehnsuchtslandschaft Wüste in L’Atlantide (1921)
Maria Stassinopoulou (Vienna): Astero (1929), Daphnis and Chloe (1931) – Greek Silent Film Expeditions in ‘Virgin’ Landscapes
DEJEUNER
15:00–17:15 TRANSALPINE ICONOGRAPHIES
Alexandra Vinzenz (Heidelberg): “Gott, Freiheit, Vaterland“ – Ein ikonologischer Blick auf den Berg im Historienfilm
Caroline Schaumann (Emory University): Blind Husbands, Varied Views: Erich von Stroheim’s Visionary Interventions in the Mountain Film
Henry Keazor (Heidelberg): “‘Qu’est-ce qu’ils ont en Suisse ?‘ Ils ont le chocolat au lait, ils ont les Alpes…“: Alfred Hitchcocks Film Secret Agent (1936)
DINER
Saturday, November 9
09:00–11:15 TRANSALPINE BODIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Kamaal Haque (Dickinson College): Before the Cable Cars Arrived: Mountains in Der heilige Berg and Der Kampf ums Matterhorn
Seth Peabody (Carleton College): Hannes Schneider and the Bergfilm: Technologized Bodies and Transnational Skiing Environments
Harald Höbusch (University of Kentucky): Staging the New German Male in Nanga Parbat. Ein Kampfbericht der Deutschen Himalaya-Expedition 1934
PAUSE CAFE
11:45–13:15 ANIMATED LANDSCAPES
Malcolm Cook (Southampton): Driving into the Anthropocene: Car Journeys in Early British Animation
Michael Fuchs (Innsbruck): (Re-)Animating Extinct Animals Through Film: Discovering Dinosaurs in Distant Lands
ca. 14:00 FIN