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Current and past FAMU grant projects

Research and development projects at FAMU

GRANT AGENCY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

  • EXPRO

Jussi Parikka, Operational Images and Visual Culture: Media Archaeological Investigations (2019-2023)

TECHNOLOGY AGENCY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

  • ÉTA

SMA-CGI: Increase the efficiency of animation production by connecting stop motion animation with 3D CGI technology (2021-2023)

MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

  • NAKI III 

Comprehensive Solution for Cultural Heritage Care in the Field of Gaming Applications (2023-2027)

https://www.famu.cz/en/science-and-research/famu-grants/naki-iii-complex-care-for-cultural-heritage-in-the-field-of-gami/

CZECH FILM FUND

  • Publishing activity in the field of cinema and activity in film science

FAMU Films 1946–1970: Film Catalogue (2023-2025)

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, YOUTH AND SPORTS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2024

Hynek Alt: FEELINGS IT FEELS (2024)
Helena Bendová: The metaphor of growth in videogame design (2024)
Veronika Klusáková: The Sandbox Films production model and the possibilities of its application in the Czech environment (2024)
Petr Neubauer: The role of auditory hygiene in the education of future sound professionals (2024)
Tereza Czesany Dvořáková: Current practice of the script consultant profession based on the legacy of František Daniel (2024)
Andrej Sýkora: Dehumanizing Pleasure: The Phenomenon of the Deformed Body of NPCs in the Context of Video Game Horror (2024)

2023

Andrea Culková: a) Who Is Heard on ČT News and Who Is Not (2012–2022/4) b) Transformative Journalism as the Path to Socially Fair Society Working Within Planetary Limits (2023–2024)
Petra Dominková: Authenticity in Fiction Film. An Analysis of Richard Linklater’s ‘Before’ Trilogy: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight (2023)
Tereza Czesany Dvořáková: Culture of Collaboration Between Independent Documentary Film Producers and Directors (2023–2024)
Jitka Hejtmanová: From Loneliness to the Forest and the Sea to Insanity: The Role of Isolation and Landscape in Robert Eggers’ Films (2023)
Tereza Reichová: Limits of the Constellation Games Method and Testing the Options of Communicating the Method via Comics (2023)
Alice Růžičková: Paths of Documentary Reflection, or Documentary Film as the World’s (Self)Conscience (2023)

2024

Eric Rosenzveig: Place Is The Space (2024-2025)
Veronika Klusáková: The Ideological Space of Childhood in Czechoslovak Film: the "Other" Children of Karel Kachyna (2024-2025)
Andrew Fisher: One thing after another: charting the historical and technological transformation of photography through concepts and practices of sequence (2024)
Jindřiška Bláhová: Anatomy of a socialist festival: institutional, economic and personal history (2024-2027)

2022–2023

Tomáš Dvořák: Scientific Photography: Technical Images and the Problem of Visibility (2021–2023)
Tereza Czesany Dvořáková: An ‘Isle of Freedom’? FAMU at the Turn of the 1970s/1980s (2022–2023)
Andrew Fisher: Flusser, Simondon and the temporal scales of contemporary photography (2022-2023)
Jussi Parikka: The internalization and dissemination of research related to the Operational Images project (2022-2023)
Marek Vajchr: Laterna psychomachica. A Media History of the Battle for the Soul and the Birth of Cinema (2022–2023)
Zdeněk Hudec: Silence of the Lambs: Class, Professionalism, Career (2023–2025)
Petr Kubica: The So-called Documentary Poetics and Style of Czech Film (2023–2024)
Veronika Klusáková: The Transformations of a Gothic Family and the ‘White Trash’ Phenomenon in the Ozark Series (2023)
Petra Dominková: Film References in Comics Studies (2023–2024)
Sara Pinheiro: Foley Gesture – A transversal theory for audiovisuals (2023)
Tomáš Oramus: Effect of Immersive Audio on Computer Game Presence (2023–2024)

2022–2023

Lenka Hámošová: Generative Neural Networks and Human Imagination: Participative Approaches to Producing Synthetic Media (2022–2023)
Sara Pinheiro: Climate change vs. Sonic coding (2022–2023)
Abelardo Gil-Fournier: The Schlieren Space (2022–2023)

Jan Bernard: Filmy FAMU 1946-1970: Chapters from aesthetic and production history (2024-2027)
Jindřiška Bláhová: Cozy audiences: the "Comfort Media" phenomenon and the emotional support of audiences (2024-2027)

2024

Eric Rosenzveig: Uncanny Valleys - Critical Issues & Creative Potentials of Current Audio AI Tools (2024-2025)
Alona Kolesnikova: Digital Doppelganger (2024-2025)
Lizaveta Chakanava: Haunting flashback: exploring possibilities for creating a surrealistic film space of trauma  (2024-2025)

2023

Martin Blažíček: Dysmorphia (2023-2024)
Tereza Reichová: Is it Possible to Capture the Processual Nature of Constellation Games using Audiovisual Means? Research into the Method and its Communication (2023-2024)
Sara Pinheiro: Foley Archive and Acousmatic Composition (2023-2024)

2022

Michael Ma: Image Logistics: Web, Flow, and Screenshots (2022)
Hynek Alt: This Page Intentionally Left Blank (How Offset Printing Brings Materiality and Temporality into the Politics of Photographic Reproduction) (2022-2023)
Yu Ying Chen: The train of words fading into the night — the dialogues in the slowness (2022-2023)

Šárka Slezáková: Authors and Actors of Time-lapse and Longitudinal Films as Infra-ordinary Representatives of Their Reality (2022-2023)
Andrea Culková: Performative Aspects of Citizens’ Assemblies (2022–2023)