Elena Vogman
Elena Vogman is an author, independent curator and postdoctoral fellow in the research project “Rhythm and Projection” at the Free University of Berlin. She specializes on the history and theory of cinema and media, with a particular emphasis on forms of visual thinking, practices of montage and the relations between literature, ethnology, art and science. She wrote her dissertation on the concept of sensuous thinking in Sergei Eisenstein’s theory project Method. Her first book Sinnliches Denken: Eisensteins exzentrische Methode has been published by diaphanes (2018). Her next book, Dance of Values: Eisenstein’s Capital Project reconstructs Eisenstein’s theory of value, analyzing how Marx’s Critique of Political Economy appears in the visual form of montage. She curated the exhibitions “Eccentric Values after Eisenstein” (2018, Berlin) and “Sergei Eisenstein: The Anthropology of Rhythm” (2017, Rome). A book with the same title, written together with Marie Rebecchi and published by Nero, accompanied the exhibition, exploring the rhythm as an instrument of visual anthropology. In her postdoc project “Lines of Drift. Milieu Theories and Cinema after Sergei Eisenstein and Fernand Deligny” she analyzes on the basis of two case studies – the interaction between milieu theories and cinema.