It’s easy to think of artistic research as something belonging only to the most academic and experimental strand of film. But there’s a plethora of possibilities that artistic research can contribute to all filmmaking – which is something a new conference at the Film University in Babelsberg is focusing on. Stockholm University of the Arts is represented by Annika Boholm och Kersti Grunditz Brennan.

During theatre rehearsals, working with the text and working with movement is often separated. But how would an actor’s interpretation and performance of dramatic text be affected if that, too, was conducted with the body in focus? This question forms the basis of Aleksandra Czarnecki Plaude’s research project ”Pronounced embodiment” which is being presented on 25 May.