Johannes Binotto

Johannes Binotto (* 1977 in Gams ) is a Swiss cultural and media scholar .

Life

Johannes Binotto studied German , English and philosophy at the University of Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 2010 with a study on the uncanny in theory, art, literature and film. This was awarded the 2011 annual prize from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich.

After employment at the University of Zurich's English Department as a research assistant at Elisabeth Bronfen's chair and a substitute professorship at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Basel , he has been a lecturer in film theory and film history at the Lucerne School of Art and Design since 2015 , as well as a lecturer at the English Department of University of Zurich.

In addition to his lectures, Binotto writes regularly as a freelance journalist and a. for the magazine Filmbulletin . Since 2003 he has been writing the weekly Lomo column for the daily newspaper Der Landbote . In addition, he works as a video essayist and has curated various thematic film series together with the Stadtkino Basel .

In 2018 he was awarded the Karsten Witte Prize for the best essay in film studies for his text Schutzbauten: Matte paintings, glass shots and the breakthroughs of fantasy . His video essays Facing Film , Touching Sound and Reproduction Interdite featured several times in the Best Video Essays surveys of 2017, 2018 and 2019 , organized by Sight & Sound magazine and the British Film Institute .

His research interests include a. the uncanny and its spatiality, the relationship between architecture and film, deviant bodies in culture, as well as the interfaces between media studies , psychoanalysis and technology philosophy . His research project Dis-Figurations / Means of Distortion is dedicated to the poetic inherent dynamics of film-technical processes and the connection between film technology and the unconscious.

Publications (selection)

Monographs and editorships

• Crime scene. The uncanny and its space in culture . Diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2013, second edition 2016. ISBN 978-3-03734-416-3
• Film / architecture. Perspectives of the cinema on the space ( Bauwelt Fundamente 160). (Ed.) Birkhäuser, Basel 2017. ISBN 978-3-0356-1431-2

Articles (selection)

• America 1839: Eerie transmissions. In: Christian Kiening, Martina Stercken (Ed.): Medialität. Historical constellations (MW 42), Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1437-3 .
• Transmission interference. Psychoanalysis as a sound engineering. In: Journal for Psychoanalysis , Issue 59: Transmission and Mediality (2018).
• Closed Circuits: Immanence as Disturbance in High Definition Cinema. In: Lars Koch, Tobias Nanz, Johannes Pause (eds.): Disruption in the Arts , De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2018. ISBN 978-3-11-057975-8 .
• Extreme speaking. To the voice of Werner Herzog. In: Alejandro Bachmann, Michelle Koch (Ed.): Echos. On the documentary work of Werner Herzog , Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947238-04-0 .
• Protective structures: matte paintings, glass shots and the breakthroughs of the imagination. In: Journal for Media Studies October 17, 2017.
• Rooms, corridors, chambers, streets. The uncanny in the film. In: Nicola Mitterer, Hajnalka Nagy (ed.): Between the words. Behind the world. Scientific and didactic approaches to the uncanny . Studies Verlag, Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen 2015, ISBN 9783706554183
• There Are No Subbasements. On the superficiality of film, memory and the unconscious. In: Ute Holl, Matthias Wittmann (eds.): Memoryscapes. Film forms of memory . Diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-03734-662-4 .
• Affect, effect, defect: film technique and / as an affect disorder. In: RISS. Journal of Psychoanalysis 81, 2015.
• Bond Rerouted: 007 and the Internal Conflict in / of Digital Media. In: SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature , 29, 2013.

Video essays (selection)

• Facing Film , 2017
• Touching Sound , 2018
• Endless Regression , 2018
• Reproduction Interdite , 2019

Web links

• Website by Johannes Binotto
• Literature by and about Johannes Binotto in the Swiss library network Nebis
• Conversation about video essay on filmexplorer.ch
• Talk about the uncanny on YouTube
• Lecture on American postmodernism of the eighties on Vimeo
• Radio interview on the addiction potential of series , Swiss radio SRF2 Kultur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ annual prices. Retrieved November 5, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Employee portrait: Binotto Johannes HSLU D&K. Retrieved April 16, 2020 . 
3. ^ English Department Staff: Johannes Binotto. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Filmbulletin Authors: Johannes Binotto. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Protective structures: Matte paintings, glass shots and the breakthroughs of fantasy (PDF)
6. ↑ - Previous winners | AG film studies. Retrieved April 16, 2020 . 
7. ↑ The best video essays of 2017 | Sight & Sound. Retrieved November 5, 2019 . 
8. ↑ The best video essays of 2018 | Sight & Sound. Retrieved November 5, 2019 . 
9. ↑ The best video essays of 2019 | Sight & Sound. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .