Research at the Film and Television University (HFF) is characterised by its special combination of artistic and scientific work. The variety of perspectives involved in this work are connected by their joint interest in film and television and thus in the production and reception of creating and handling audiovisual media.
Fields of Research
Media Studies Research: This scientific research involves the empirical analysis of media and media content. It is based on academic research on basic principles and use-oriented research reflecting on artistic practice. The focuses of scientific research at the Konrad Wolf Film and Television University are the history of film and television, the use and appropriation of media by various groups of recipients, the analysis of popular film and television formats, the development of media cultures for children and young people and aspects of media education.
Artistic and Technical Research: Scientific and artistic or artistic and technical research refers to the theoretically reflective analyses of development and production processes. With its work on the Enneagram of Personality, cinema as a digital form of writing, wave field synthesis, digital workflow or the streaming of mobile phone films, the Babelsberg Film University has been able to prove itself as a partner of the national and international media industry in these fields of research.
Artistic Research: Artistic research deals with the development process of a piece of art and develops new methods for researching and mapping the relationship between the individual and society with regard to the interface between art and science. In accordance with the educational and research profile of the HFF, time-based media form the subject of artistic research at the HFF, which is promoted and funded by the Institute for Artistic Research, which was founded in 2008. The fields of research are spread over the entire domain of time-based media, from digitalised images through to representations of space and sound and questions of authenticity strategies for the media of the future and right through to the research of cinematic narration, as well as from poetics through to film artists and stylistic directions. Artistic research also involves the corresponding projects of the anniversary event “100 Years of Babelsberg”.
