Dr. phil. Tobias Dietrich
Department:
Institute for Art History - Film Studies - Art Education
Subject:
Film studies and media aesthetics
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Résumé
2019–24 lecturer in Film Studies and Film Education at the Institute of Art History - Film Studies - Art Education and ZeMKI-Research Lab Film, Media Art and Popular Culture at the University of Bremen; founding member of the U-Bremen’s BYRD postdoc network Health Humanities and Audio-visual Cultures (He:Ku), freelance film curator; voluntary work for the Bremen queerfilm festival; member of the International Film Award selection committee at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Glasgow.
2019-21 and 2025 project coordinator of the International Bremen Film Conference.
2016–18 scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (see research projects).
2017 research stay at the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.
2009-15 B.A. in Art Studies and Public Health and M.A. in Art and Cultural Education with focus on Film Studies in Bremen and Paris; during studies participation in the research project "homo debilis" and other editorial activities online and for the publications of the International Bremen Film Conference, nachfilm.de, amongst others.
Research
Research Focus
| Film Aesthetics and Film History
| European Auteur Cinema
| Medical and Health Humanities
| Queer cinema
| Film Mediation
| Experimental Film
Projects
2015–24: „The Aesthetical Dimension of Mental Illness. On Audio-visual Construction of Mental Illness in Contemporary Auteur Cinema“ (PhD project)
2011-13: "Living Archive. Archive work as contemporary artistic and curatorial practice", Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art e.V., Berlin, in cooperation with the British Film Institute, London (student assistant)
2010-12: "homo debilis. Dis / ability in the Vormoderne ", Department of History, University of Bremen (student assistant)
Publications
Books (in German)
Forthcoming: Filmästhetische Dimensionen psychischer Erkrankung im Auteurfilm. Artikulation, Verschränkung, Verräumlichung (working title).
2022: Kopf/Kino. Psychische Erkrankung und Film (hg. mit Winfried Pauleit). Berlin: Bertz + Fischer.
2017: Filme für den Eimer. Das Experimentalkino von Klaus Telscher. Stuttgart: ibidem.
Academic papers (English selection)
2023: Teaching Mental Illness through Film and Film through Mental Illness, in: Sark, Katrina, ed.: Social Justice Pedagogies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 127–140.
2019: Depression as Aesthetic Answer to the Socioeconomic Crisis in Two Days, One Night, in: Corbalán, Ana; Kaklamanidou, Betty, eds.: Contemporary European Cinema. Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis. London, New York: Routledge, pp. 106–118.
Others (English selection)
Forthcoming: Film and Mental Health. A Conversation, in: OUC / UOC: José Carlos Teixeira. Art and Mental Health. An Aesthetic and Ethic Approach.
2021: Frenzies, Films and Family. A Review of ‘Mental Traveler’ by W.J.T. Mitchell, in: The Polyphony. Conversations across the Medical Humanities. 19.3.2021.
2018: Social Justice, Blood Donation, and Gay Rights, in: Sark, Katrina, ed.: Anthology of Social Justice and Intersectional Feminisms, 1, pp. 25–27.
Presentations
Selection of talks in English
6/28/2024: „Screening Climatic Fears: Eco-Anxieties and the Permeability of Cinematic Barriers”, Screening Fears, Workshop with Francesco Casetti, Hamburg University.
5/28/2024: “Medical Humanities and Climate Change”, IMHAR Colloquium, Institute for Medical Humanities & Artistic Research, Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen Ottersberg.
6/13/2023: „Mind/Screens. Mental Illness and Cinema“, IMHAR-Salon „Film_Psychiatry“, Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research, Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg.
5/5/2021: „Mind/Screens: Bridging Film Aesthetics and Mental Illness“, Introductory Note to the 25th International Bremen Film Conference, University of Bremen, CITY 46 / Kommunalkino Bremen e.V., together with Angela Rabing and Winfried Pauleit.
1/24/2020: „Experience as Aesthetic Change: Mental Illness as Self-corrective Truth in Christopher Nolan’s Memento“, 3rd Congress of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research, „Experience, Medicine and Marginalisation“, University of Sheffield.
7/29/2019: „Madness and Posthumanism“, Summer School „Posthuman Intimacies. Cross-Species Entanglements in European Cinema“, University of Toronto.
10/26/2018: „Considering the Clinical Discourse as an Aesthetic One Through the Light of Film”, Cultural Crossings of Care. An Appeal to the Medical Humanities, University of Oslo.
6/29/2018: "Taking the 'Scenic' Route. Values of Authorial Wrong Tracks in Discontinuous Fictional Illness Narratives", GCSC-Workshop "Rhetorics of Health and Illness. (Dis-)Continuous Minds, Bodies, and Narratives", Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
11/28/2017: „The Aesthetic Dimension of Mental Illness. Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done”, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
10/2/2017: „Caligari – Dr. Unrath – M. Types of Madness in Weimar Cinema“, im Rahmen des Seminars „A Short History of German Film“, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
Memberships
| GfM - Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
| NECS - Network for European Cinema and Media Studies
| IAMHAR - International Association of Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research
| NNMHR - Northern Network for Medical Humanities
| Netzwerk Medical Humanities, Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens, Universität & ETH Zürich