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Research Reports


Name Title
KEM I thesis
Adelaida Pardo "Creating Night with light: The aesthetical problem of night scenes exposed"
Ai-Lun Huang "An Analysis of Sex Scenes in Shame, Gone Girl and The Diary of a Teenage Girl"
Ahmed Abdelrazek "TIME - A mysterious process in the cinematic incidence"
Bojana Babic "Searching for Liberated Sexuality - The "Girl" in Dušan Makavejev's W.R. Mysteries of the Organism and Maja Miloš' Clip"
Clare Fogerty "Production Practices Exercised in the Making of Wild Game: A Technical Report"
Dagmara Kucinska "Cinematic aesthetics and narrative elements in videogames. How video games use film language to enhance their cinematic experience."
Dean Radovanovic "A quest for PATAPHORS"
Eduardo Cardoso "Scriptwriting from historical documents - Research methods in the making of 40 - Clash of Futures"
Francesco Crivaro "How to write a film with a movie camera. The camera calligraphy in Roof Knocking."
Farid Salamé "Genre Conventions vs Register - Techincal Report"
Ilija Cvetkovski Features of sound dramaturgy in horror movies
Indrek Soe "Blurring the line between sound design and music"
Ingemar Martinez "How Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland influenced IMPROMPTU. The storytelling of Impromptu, from the rabbit hole."
Jeronimo Sarmiento "Cinematic polyphony in Lucrecia Martel's Cinema. The musicality of narrative film in 'The Headless Woman'"
Krish Makhija "FEELING IN COLOUR: Creating the 'Spin-Off' Universe and understanding how green has evolved as a dramatic tool in narrative story telling."
Lucas Abrahão THE AFFECTS OF GUILT. Emotion and Ideology in José Padilha's Tropa de Elite
Madlen Sieghartsleitner "Aspects of Elliptical Editing"
Richard Tettey "Between Reality and Fiction: a sound production approach on the film "Spin-Off"."
Saeid Behbahaninia "Tripping on The Holy Mountain: How The Holy Mountain Resembles Psychedelic Experience"
Sergio Cavazos "The uncertainty war: Applying entrepreneurial practices to micro-budgeting for short films: "Roof Knocking" technical report."
Sergio Malpica "The creation of multiple planes of reality. Magical realism Devices in Julio Medem's Caótica Ana"
Sina Salimi "Last Stop: Self-Orientalism. Jafar Panahi's Taxi Tehran And Its Representation of Iran"
Tiago Carvalheiro "Stranger, Therefore Tallinn.Technical Report on HEL-TLL-HEL"
Veli Rajassar "High concept vs. Low-budget - making an ambitious film with less than ambitious funding"
Yasir Kareem "Voice-Over as a Narrative Style in Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups"
KEM II Thesis
Ana Victoria Falcon Araujo "Digital marketing strategies for next-generation film distribution"
Andrijana Krcmar "Creation and Destruction of Perception: Radical discontinuity montage as a tool for creating perceptual distortions between representations of fantasy and realism"
Cheng-Han Lin "LEARNING TO LET GO: Creating the visual world of 'Mylissa'"
Doris Tääker "Directing one-shot films: the constant challenge of the lack of editing"
Gwenn Joyaux "The Hero's journey for female characters women in Lucía Puenzo's cinema"
Haendel Gabriel Guerrero Solis "How mixing supports emotional states n Coen brothers' films"
Israel Bañuelos Loreto "Rhizomatic Sound Design"
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir "Albert Serra's the Death of Louis XIV (2016) According to Deleuze's: Concept of affection-image"
Marie-Luise Scharf "WORLDBUILDING - Creating a Believable Story World for the Female-Only Community of Andros"
Merja Riitta Maijanen "Alfred Hitchcock's Use of visual symbols in vertigo"
Nenad Stefanoski "Unnatural Naturalness: A sound design semiotic approach into the inner feelings of the characters in a film"
Shruti Sidhan "The role of locations in a film: From narrative to production value" Technical report on the film "TOMORROW ISLAND"
Tom Butcher Cury "Screenwriters Are Writers: The Study of Poetics as an Enabler of Creativity"
Tshering Lham Thaye "THE BHUTANESE PICTURE: Analysing and developing a strategic picture of the Bhutanese Film Industry"
Vishal Vittal "The role of visual softness and sharpness in the design of a cinematic narrative"
KEM III Thesis
Anastasiya Maksymchuk "The cinematic World of Werner Herzog: Between documentary and fiction"
Andrés Enrique Losada Diaz "The Psychological stretch of Character in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park"
Cassiana Maranha "JOÃO CANIJO'S METHOD - THE WORK WITH ACTORS ON THE SHORT FILM "ACCEPTANCE""
Fouad Halwani "The Trickster in serialized television- an anti-hero of postmodern mythologies"
Hisham Sharafeddine "Production Sound Techniques in One-Shot/Long-take Films"
Jacopo Meneghin "Painterly vision in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon"
Jinling Wu "An Authorial Study of Milos Forman's Czech Films"
Larissa Barbosa Curi "Expanding horror - The guidelines of Horror Screenwriting applied to crafting an original script"
Luka Ožegović "Phenomenologgy of selective omission of sound in film - How removing sounds affects the subjective perception of the viewer of films"
Maíra Scherer Correia de Araujo "Contemporary narrative: cultures and the influence of antiplot - An approach to Maniac (2018)"
Mariana Nunes Gomes "Framing as narrative device in Lucrecia Martel's "The Holy Girl""
Md Sarower Reza Jimi "Muslim characters in cinema after 9/11 as a tool of social critique: Study of characters in Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's films that practice Islam as religion."
Nare Ter-Gabrielyan "Pictorial elements of composition: Mosaic of perspectives towards frontality in Sergei Parajanov's "The colour of Pomegranates""
Noorahaya Lahtee "Expanding time and space: an analysis of the cinematic vision in selected films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "
Sai Krishna Koppolu "Changing the protagonist of a film on the edit - "Bruxa" a technincal report"
Sina Saral "Bruxa Pre-production journal – technical report "
Sivasudhan Balamanohar "The role of a Cinematographer in a Student Film "Aceitação" - A Technical Report"
Tijana Todorovic "The use of genre film elements In Jovan Jovanovic's fiction films"
Vita Tae Zorat "Visualizing atmospheres: a technical report on the cinematographic world of "Bruxa""
KEM IV thesis
Alejandro Daza "ALMODOVAR DESIRE TRILOGY: Representation, creation and desire."
Ansah Fiona "Success or Failure: Analysis of the Trends in the Kumawood Industry"
Bjorn Hanson "(Un)Welcome to the Neighbourhood: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Location Shooting"
Chinh Van Tran "The role of Thirdspace in crafting migrant identities: A case study of physical spaces, language, and memory in Lilting (2014)"
Clarice Laus "New Paradigms Of Independent Film Distribution: How Theater Release In The UK Is Being Affected By The New Consumer Habits Introduced By The Digital Revolution."
Danilo Miranda "THE CINEMATOGRAPHER'S CREATIVE PROCESS: In conversations with Acácio de Almeida"
Emeri Abel "Reconstructing the Narrator through Editing in My Days of Night"
Eric Palau "Cinematic Modes of Representation Expressing the Passage of Time: an exploration of the use of Ellipsis in feature film script Blink."
Johnny Farah "Cinematic Modes of Representation Expressing the Passage of Time: an exploration of the use of Ellipsis in feature film script Blink."
Julien Kai "Paintings as References in Contemporary Films A Case Study of Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate (2018)"
Juulia Kalaveinen "Liminal landscapes in the films of Derek Jarman"
Kristo Kaas "The Unreliable Narrator in a Thriller"
Lawrence Agbetsise "CONTEMPORARY GHANAIAN CINEMA AND POST–COLONIAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILY"
Luka Milosavjevic "Sound design in films of Dystopia and Liminality - My Days of Night – Technical Report"
Margaryta Kulichova "Grey line between sound design and composing in HBO mini-series "Chernobyl""
Maria Sabina Torres "The Use of Horror Film Clichés in the Current American Horror Film Cycle - A Case Study of The Invisible Man (2020) and Get Out"
Mariana Duarte "AT THE EDGE OF EUROPE: BORDERLANDS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF HUMAN DISPLACEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARIES"
Marina Morais "The Transmedial Screenplay: Screenwriting as a Fundamental Tool in Contemporary Film Adaptation"
Michele Diniz "Cinematography in Dystopian Content: a case study of The Handmaid's Tale"
Ngima Gelu Lama "Writing a social drama striving against the Bollywood style."
Pedro Vital "Eisenstein's Techniques of Montage applied in "Enter The Void" - A case study about how Eisenstein's theories of montage affected the contemporary audiovisual media"
Seif el din Khaled "Over Shadi Abdel Salam's "The Night of Counting the Years" (1969)"
Sergio Mauricio Romero "TROPICAL GOTHIC HORROR SCRIPT - Reviving the genre"
Tarun Madupu "THE MEANING AND EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF AURAL DYNAMICS IN FILM"
KEM V thesis
Aline Lima Silva "Creating Night with light: The aesthetical problem of night scenes exposed"
BEATRIZ TAFNER "How Asif Kapadia Represents Amy Winehouse in The Biographical Documentary Amy (2015)"
DIKESH KHADGI SHAHI "Sound and Music as Agents of Narrative in Dunkirk"
EDEM KODJO TENGUE "BFM as an instrument in developing national cinema. A case study."
Isaac James Knights-Washbourn "YOUR SCREENPLAY IS A PROBLEM A technical report on the script development approach to Framed in Time"
Ívar Erik Yeoman "Representation of Trauma in Ingmar Bergman's Hour Of The Wolf, Autumn Sonata and Fanny and Alexander"
Laura Garcia "Cinematic Representations of Loss and Grief: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Contemporary Mexican Documentary"
Maria Camila Arriaga Torres "A body in dispute, a territory to conquer. Women and War in Colombian Contemporary Cinema"
Martini Conquilla "The Hypertext of the Streaming Era: Netflix's Interactive Films"
Mauricio Sanchez Garza "The New Models of Cinema Sound: The Use of Internal Sound Perspective in The Film Arrival"
Mazin Helal "The Aesthetics of Silence in Steve McQueen's film "Hunger""
Nađa Lapčević "The Spontaneous, The Planned and The Rehearsed: Sean Baker's Filmmaking Method"
Prem Jyothis Chonat "Implications of Cinematography in tondoscope"
Rafael Soares de Melo "The Meaning of Flashbacks in Jean-Marc Vallée's Sharp Objects"
Ragne Mandri "THE CHILD IN JAAN TOOMING'S AND VIRVE ARUOJA'S 'COLORFUL DREAMS'"
Ramaswamy Manogaran Ramprasad "Cinematic world and the politics involved in Santosh Sivan's Films"
Samvaran Prethu Rai "The Dialect of sound in Film: Making sense of Linguistic creativity in Wall-e"
Stela Aguiar Carneiro Ferreira "THE MATRIXIAL GAZE IN CÉLINE SCIAMMA'S "Portrait of a Lady on Fire""
Sushant Bhat "Adapting Gender Roles: The Two Women in Devdas (2002) and Dev.D (2009)"
Tul Rodríguez "The female Other in film narrative: The case study of "Erika Kohut" in La Pianiste "
KEM VI thesis
Andjela Lazic "The Fantastic and the Afrosurreal in Contemporary Television: A Case Study of Donald Glover's Atlanta"
Angela Patricia Duque Gutierrez "The standardization problem in films: Montage as a meaning-changing tool. A comparison between David Lynch's Dune (1984) and the fan-edited Dune: The Alternative Edition Redux (2012) as a case study of how editing can have an important impact on gender representation."
Caroline Andressa de Biagi "LIMINALITY AND LANDSCAPE IN RECENT BRAZILIAN COMING OF AGE FILMS"
Fadi Al Saghbiny "The Representation of Light in Luminism and Cinematography"
Fareeda Ayisha Muhammed "Doors As Chronotope Of Threshold: Symbolisation Of Economic Disparity In The Films Of Majid Majidi And Bong Joon Ho"
Felix Egon Jacques Cognard "Designing creative subtitles for Firedamp Exploration of a trial approach from the director's perspective: desk research, interviews, and case study"
Hassan Akil "MONTAGE AS A DEFINING FEATURE OF NARRATIVE IN NON-VERBAL DOCUMENTARIES LIKE KOYAANISQATSI (1982) AND BARAKA (1992)"
Hind Kammourieh "Bandersnatch's Audience: A Choice or a Future of an Industry?"
Isabella Cristina Schisler Giordano "THE REPRESENTATION OF BLACK WOMEN IN FILM: AN ANALYSIS OF COSTA'S VITALINA VARELA AND NICÁCIO AND ROSA'S CAFÉ COM CANELA"
Jiali Liang "CINEMATIC SPACE IN RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI'S FILMS"
Kelton Smith "The Homosexual Disaster: an investigation of representation in contemporary British gay films"
Lauri Tomas Oscar Elstelä "GROTESQUE IN BORDER"
Lou-Andrea Fiere "The haunted house in cinema: A study of James Wan's The Conjuring"
Matheus Peçanha Navarro Oliveira "INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION AND SOUTH-SOUTH POLICY IN THE BRAZILIAN FILM PRODUCTION: ORIGINS, RESULTS, AND IMPACTS OF PRODECINE 6 COPRODUCTION FUND IN BRAZILIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA"
Matthew James Part "SOUND DESIGN FOR VR FILMS – ARE CINEMATIC VR PROJECTS ENABLING THE CREATION OF A NEW SONIC LANGUAGE FOR ENGAGEMENT?"
Nevena Semova Semova "THE POWER OF THE NON-EXISTENT ACOUSMÊTRE IN THE HUMAN VOICE (2021)"
Nikola Vucinic "MICHAEL HANEKE'S HIDDEN: USE OF GENRE IN FRAMING GUILT"
Sangam Panta "ADAPTING SUBJECTIVITY "POINT-OF-AUDITION": A SOUND PRODUCTION APPROACH ON THE FILM "VÕÕRAD""
Shehryar Khan "PERFORMATIVITY OF MIXING: AN ANALYSIS OF FILM SOUND MIXING THROUGH THE LENS OF PERFORMANCE THEORY"
Swapnil Arjun Domade "Filmic Ekphrasis of Amit Dutta: Enactment of Miniature Paintings into Cinematograph"