Lectures
Audio commentary for American distribution Blue Ray A Question of Silence
The Films of Marleen Gorris: A Question of Silence (1982) – Nostalgia Kinky
Marleen Gorris Trilogy .
The Exhausted Lecture for F#ck Healing 2023
Lecture Breaking Conventions 2023
Patricia Pisters – Circles, Triangles and Squares: Psychedelics at the Limits of Perception – YouTube
Lecture De Balie: Nuchtere Kijk op Psychedelica 2022 add link to video
Naar aanleiding van Michiel van Elk’s boek Een Nuchtere Kijk op Psychedelica (Das Mag, 2021), een avond in De Balie Amsterdam over psychedelica, spiritualiteit, therapeutische toepassing, zingeving en esthetiek.
Met bijdragen van Michiel van Elk, Andre van der Braak, Renske Blom, Jim van Os en Patricia Pisters. Kijk hier de avond terug.
Podcast Achter de Coulissen 2021
Podcast Achter de Coulissen. #1 Schouwburg Lochem (in Dutch)
MUBI Podcast” Turkish Delight Ignites the Netherlands 2021
MUBI’s podcasts begins with Paul Verhoeven’s infamous second feature Turkish Delight (1973). While one of Verhoeven’s more underseen films by international audiences, at the time of its release it took the Netherlands by storm. It is the most well-attended domestic film in the history of the country and was later named the greatest Dutch film of the 20th century by the Netherlands Film Festival. In this episode, we explore the film’s unique significance during the counterculture movement in 1970s Holland, while featuring exclusive interviews with director Paul Verhoeven, star Monique van de Ven, and cinematographer Jan de Bont, Dana Linsen and Patricia Pisters. The Podcast is here.
Alumni-talk 2020 Several Sides of Selfies
The alumni meeting 2020 was transformed into an online meeting in Museum van Loon. Madelon Simons (Art History), Patricia Pisters (media studies) and others about the old and modern self portrait.
Watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULMjqZ3cN_c
Presentation New Blood in Contemporary Cinema (in Dutch + in English) 2020
Bookpresentation in Eye Filmmuseum (in Dutch). Online presentation for University of Southhampton (in English).
Can Sci-fi save the day? Imagine Film Festival Panel (2020)
Can Sci-Fi Save the World from Imagine Film Festival 2020 on Vimeo.
See for more information here.
With: Dr. Etienne Augé (CHIFT), sci-fi criticus Paul Graham Raven (Climaginairies) en schrijver Rochita Ruiz (Other Futures) Moderator: Patricia Pisters (Film & Media Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam)
Be Pretty and Shut Up! (2021)
Lecture “Be Pretty and Shut Up!” by Professor Patricia Pisters.
6 June 2020 EYE Film Museum The French actress Delphine Seyrig impressed as the lead in Jeanne Dielman, the film that was Chantal Akerman’s breakthrough. The filmmaker, who died in 2015, would have turned 70 today. In a tribute to Akerman, University of Amsterdam Professor of Film Studies Patricia Pisters focuses on the life and work of Seyrig, a major feminist figure.
War and the Screen Machine (2019)
Interview Patricia Pisters about EYE film lecture for EYE’s Shell Shock program.
In his book War and Cinema, Paul Virilio has shown how military technologies of enhancing perception and logistics of warfare have developed in pair with cinema and entertainment media. Ranging from colour film during the Second World War to video games and drone operations in more recent times, there is a tight link between war and media technologies. In her lecture, Patricia Pisters will sketch an overview of the most recent developments in the tight bonds between war and media.
Podcast ‘Onder Mediadoctoren’: Gekte en Media (2019)
Te gast bij Aflevering 84 van de podcast Onder Mediadoctoren van Linda Duits en Vincent Crone. Live uitzeding op 4 maart 2019. Hier de link naar de podcast. En hier de link naar de opnames op Youtube.
The Filmmaker as Metallurgist: Consciousness of the Earth, World Memory and Digital Alchemy (2017)
Patricia Pisters – The Filmmaker as Metallurgist: Consciousness of the Earth, World Memory and Digital Alchemy from Alchemy Film & Arts on Vimeo.
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival – Alchemical Visions Symposium 2017
Stedelijk Statement by Patricia Pisters: Worlding the Brain (2017)
Stedelijk Statements: Patricia Pisters – Worlding the Brain is the fourth edition of Stedelijk Statements, a program series in which a scholar, artist, critic, or cultural entrepreneur composes an evening at the museum. The organizer of the program is given the floor to share his or her views on visual art and design. New research and both artistic and academic projects will be presented during an evening program consisting of lectures, debates, performances, and film screenings. In this edition, Professor of Film Patricia Pisters (Media Studies, University of Amsterdam) shows how art translates subjective experiences that take place in our brain.
With work and contributions by Guillaume Dumas, RAAAF (Eric and Ronald Rietveld), Alva Noe, Zoe Beloff, Jason Tougaw, The Art of Neuroscience, Lancel & Maat, Maartje Nevejan & Monobanda, Esther van Fenema & Floor Braam & the Dutch National Ballet. A report by Nim Goede in Metropolis M gives a participant impression. Below a visual impression of the evening (3 November 2017) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2017. Clothes Patricia Pisters by Mattijs van Bergen, kimono suit from his Photo-to-Fashion series. See for the registration of this Stedelijk Statement: Worlding the Brain here.
Statement: Worlding the Brain
This evening I want to take visitors of the Stedelijk Museum on a ‘journey through the brain’ where neuroscientist, psychiatrists, artists, patients and philosophers are equal partners in dialogue. Objective knowledge about synapsis and brain functions is important, but does not give us insights into the subjective experiences of mental processes, which is the domain of the arts and humanities. Objective and subjective disciplinary fields about the brain could act more as ‘trusted strangers’ and create a more synergetic and integral understanding of the brain. This Stedelijk Statement is connected to a conference at the University of Amsterdam entitled Worlding the Brain: Affect, Care, Engagement where we propose to take the brain out of the scientific lab and put it back into the chaotic rich complexity of the world by exchanging findings, observations and thoughts about the emotions and care for our synaptic processes and mental (dis)orders. – Patricia Pisters
Grote Denkers: Marguerite Duras (2017)
Grote Denkers: Marguerite Duras from De Balie on Vimeo. This event took place 7 September 2017 in Amsterdam. In Dutch. Organisatie en presentatie: Mirthe Frese en Merlijn Geurts. Muziek: Manuel Wouthuysen en Kika Sprangen. Met Marte Kaan (over Duras en Lacan), Patricia Pisters (over Hiroshima Mon Amour, India Song, Le Camion en Les Yeux Bleu Cheveux Noirs) en Julie Cafmeyer (n.a.v. De Minnaar).
In deze aflevering van de programmareeks Grote Denkers staat Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) centraal: schrijver, filmmaker, opiniemaker met een ongezouten mening en enfant terrible van de Franse literatuur. Bewonderd door de een, bespot door de ander. Ze vernieuwde zowel de literatuur- als de filmwereld met haar eigenzinnige, poëtische en hartstochtelijke werk. Denk aan haar roman L’Amant [De minnaar], waarvan miljoenen aantallen werden verkocht, en de wereldberoemde film Hiroshima mon Amour, waarvoor ze het script schreef.
Met schrijver en psycholoog Marte Kaan, theatermaker Julie Cafmeyer en filmwetenschapper Patricia Pisters duiken we in de turbulente wereld van Duras. We gaan in gesprek over haar problematische jeugd in het Franse Indochina (het huidige Vietnam) dat steeds weer terugkeert in haar werk, haar neiging om haar leven en identiteit te fictionaliseren, haar unieke schrijfstijl, en over het belangrijkste thema in haar oeuvre: de liefde, of eigenlijk de onmogelijkheid van echte liefde. Want Duras heeft als geen ander de liefde in al haar vormen – de tragische, onoverwinnelijke en destructieve liefde – in woorden proberen te vatten. Met muziek van pianist Manuel Wouthuysen en saxofonist Kika Sprangers.
Red Shoes and Black Swans: Compulsive Movement in Film (2016)
Here’s a link to the panel on Compulsive Patterns during the Worlding the Brain conference. The panel consisted of contributions by Damiaan Denys, Patricia Pisters, Max van der Linden and Andrew Gaedtke.
Talk Soft Cinema #1 Interview Patricia Pisters (2013)
Talk Soft Cinema is a series of interviews with filmmakers, theorists and critics with interesting ideas about cinema and its future. December 9, 2013
Watch the video on Vimeo.
De Fascinatie (2012)
De Fascinatie is a series of programs that present academics of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In several hypotheses they talk about their fascination for their field of research. Bekijk de video op UvAkanaal.
Hoe?Zo! Radio: Breinkietelende films
Beelden hebben een direct effect op ons brein en roepen soms heftige emoties op. Filmmakers maken daar dankbaar gebruik van. Met indringende beelden kietelen ze onze hersenen en sleuren ze ons hun wereld in. In Hoe?Zo! vertelt hoogleraar filmwetenschappen Patricia Pisters over de relatie tussen beelden en ons brein.
Beluister de uitzending op ntr.nl
IKKM: Sequenzgespräche (2010)
Patricia Pisters talks about Michael Clayton (2007, Tony Gilroy). June 3, 2010.
Watch this talk via the site of Studio Bauhaus here .
Cerebral Metaphysics of the Neuro-Image
IKKM Lecture: Signs of Time. Cerebral Metaphysics of the Neuro-Image. May 12, 2010
Watch the video at IKKM’s Vimeo channel.
Cinemania: spanning en suspense
VPRO televisie: Cinemanie, aflevering 4: spanning en suspense. 7 oktober 2008
Hoe bouw je spanning op in een film? Cinemania vroeg het onder anderen aan editor Peter Alderliesten (die praat over Scorsese’s Cape Fear), Elbert van Strien (Zwart water), George Sluizer (Spoorloos) en een Hitchcock-kenner.
Bekijk de aflevering op Cinema.nl
De Avonden: North by Northwest
VPRO Radio: De Avonden. Vrijdag 6 juni 2008 19:00
Naar aanleiding van het Cary Grant-retrospectief in het Filmmuseum komende zomer, gaat de film North By Northwest (1959) opnieuw in de roulatie. Lotje IJzermans praat over deze Hitchcock-klassieker met drie liefhebbers: criticus Hans Beerekamp, filmwetenschapper Patricia Pisters en directeur van de Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie Willem Capteyn. Luister naar de uitzending op Cinema.nl
Mille Gilles
A Film by IJsbrand van Veelen, VPRO television, 1997 (44 min.). Dutch and English spoken.
From “nomadism” and “deterritorialization” to “Rhizomes,” Mille Gilles explores some of the main areas of Deleuze’s post-structural, anti-hierarchical writings. But going beyond that specific discussion, and maybe more significantly, the film also examines how Deleuze and his ideas inspired people around the world, in many different disciplines and fields of endeavor.
Including a rare (short) sequence with Deleuze himself, MILLE GILLES includes interviews and encounters with eight creative people who draw on Deleuze and his work. Architects Greg Lynn and Lars Spuybroek, musicians D.J. Spooky and David Shea, artist Lydia Dona, designer and software developer Bernard Cache, management consultant and organizational theorist Jules Koster, and professor and writer on film and media Patricia Pisters. They discuss not just “what did Deleuze mean,” but what impact his ideas have had on them, and their different fields.
When Deleuze died, Roger-Pol Droit wrote in Le Monde: “No one knows what distant posterity will remember of a body of work that contemporaries probably understand only a little. Thought, with Deleuze, is the experience of life rather than reason.”
Patricia Pisters’ exposition which runs throughout the film is, as one would expect from her authority, informed, clear and intellectually generous… More than the confident repetitions of familiar phrases, the fragility of the film image, as a picture without support, explains the key concepts against the grain of the text. A valiant attempt to break habitual ways of thinking. Leonardo Digital Reviews.
More information about Mille Gilles on the distributor’s website
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