”Darkness as material” by Mia Engberg

The public defence took place on 24 November, 2023 at 13:00 at Stockholm University of the Arts, Valhallavägen 189, Stockholm. The public defence was also live-streamed on SKH’s website.

The doctoral project Darkness as Material examines darkness as material and its relationship to cinematic storytelling. The project is inspired by Marguerite Duras' idea to kill cinema, and it explores film's potential to approach the place she described as the dark room, where we are deaf and blind, and passion is possible.

The documented artistic research project (doctoral thesis) Darkness as Material can be found in DiVA and in Research Catalogue.

External Opponent
Mara Lee Gerden 

Examination Committee Members
Magnus Bärtås
Dora Garcia
Gabriela Pichler    
Wilhelm Carlsson (substitute)

Supervisors
Rebecca Hilton
Elisabeth Hjorth

Chair of defence
Cecilia Roos, Vice-Rector for Research at SKH

Mia Engberg is the twentieth PhD candidate who has successfully defended a PhD in artistic research within SKH.