Nearly twenty years after its premiere, Downfall still constitutes, among German theatrical features, the most significant media event since fall of Berlin Wall. The highest-profile sort (co-)production with a relatively big budget approximately €14 million, well-known source material, tie-in to sordid national history, saturation exhibition strategy in Germany and (within five months September...

This essay intends to analyse four feature films from Japanese filmmaker Kōji Wakamatsu: The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966), Violated Angels (1967), Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969) and Violent (1969). Besides its narrative simplicity bordering on appalling eroticism, this informal tetralogy shares a particular design spatial trademark: all are set single, tight, claustrophobic space. By resorti...

Dominique Rivoal, "The Shared Space of Hackney Marshes" (9:04). My aim as the filmmaker is to develop a somatically informed film-making practice, investigating how attending soma while operating my camera, can further reveal aspects relationality within and mover dyad environment that contains us. // Daniel Portelli, "What River Doesn't Say About Itself" (9:55). Along river s...

According to traditional film histories, crosscutting is the cornerstone of the classical aesthetic in cinema. Numerous scholarly studies have been carried out on this crucial aspect of classical narrative film language. It is maintained that crosscutting’s “multiple lines of action” must take place in “widely separated locales” (Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson, 1985: 48). The use of such ambigu...

Treatment of soils contaminated with heavy metals using plant species is a method which has been widely used in thepast. This method, which is known as phytoremediation, has been applied for pollution treatment using different plantspecies worldwide. The method has been used for remediation of various types of pollutants in laboratory, pilot andindustrial scales. The aim of this study was to co...