Barbara Flückiger

Barbara Flückiger (born December 9, 1957 in Zurich ) is a Swiss film scholar.

Life

From 1980 to 1992 she worked as a sound engineer for directors Markus Imhoof , Daniel Schmid , Claude Goretta and Silvio Soldini, among others . She then studied German, film studies and journalism at the University of Zurich and the Free University of Berlin . Her main focus is the interplay of technological innovation and aesthetics.

In 1999 she received her doctorate with a dissertation on sound design in American mainstream film 1975–1995 at the University of Zurich, which in 2001 as sound design. The virtual sound world of the film was released and has since appeared in several editions.

After working on a research project on digital cinema 2000–2002, she continued the theoretical study of the narrative and aesthetic consequences of digitizing the film image using the example of computer-generated visual effects . She completed her habilitation in 2007 at the Free University of Berlin with the font Visual Effects. Film images from the computer.

From February 2007 to January 2014 she was visiting professor in the master's program Network Cinema CH at the Department of Film Studies at Zurich University. In January 2014 she was appointed associate professor ad personam by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich.

Flückiger deals with the digitization of archive films, initially in the CTI research project AFRESA 2008–2011, then in the research project Film History Re-mastered funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation 2011–2013 and since 2013 with the KTI research project DIASTOR Bridging the Gap Between Analog Film History and Digital technology . As part of Film History Re-mastered , she completed several research stays of several months at Harvard University, where she devoted herself to basic research into historical color film processes. This resulted in a comprehensive database that has been available online since 2012 and programmed as an interactive online platform in 2013. Since 2012 she has been co-project manager of the research project Analog vs. Digital. The Emotional Impact of Film Recording Processes on the Audience .

In 2015, Barbara Flückiger received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for systematic research into the interaction between technology and aesthetics of film colors with a new interdisciplinary approach and tools from the digital humanities. The research project planned for 2015 to 2020 will directly examine the insights gained in the application of the digitization and restoration of archive films.

In 2019 she received the award of the Joint Technical Symposium of the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA), "for extraordinary contributions to the technology of the audiovisual archiving field."

Publications (selection)

• Barbara Flückiger (2001): Sound Design. The virtual sound world of the film. Marburg: Stoke. 520 p., Fold-out brochure, many illustrations, some in color. ISBN 3-89472-506-0 , 2nd edition 2002, 3rd edition 2007, 4th edition 2010, 5th edition 2012.
• Barbara Flückiger (2008): Visual Effects. Film images from the computer. Marburg: Stoke. 528 p., Fold-out brochure, numerous color illustrations. ISBN 978-3-89472-518-1
• Barbara Flückiger (2012 f.): Timeline of Historical Film Colors . On-line

Web links

• Homepage of Barbara Flückiger
• Entry in the research database of the University of Zurich
• Entry on the homepage of the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich
• Literature by and about Barbara Flückiger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review by Andreas Bick ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 14, 2013.  
2. ↑ Media release from the University of Zurich ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 21, 2015.  
3. ↑ Twitter media , accessed on December 11, 2019.