- a vital lens for understanding the eco-critical and epistemological potential of moving image arts and their mode of thinking.  This is a key point in Elisabeth Brun´s recent book Place and the Moving Image: experimental film practice as topography, which argues that place, has been largely underexplored as constitutive for thinking through film. Drawing on her work, in which place and artistic research is central, Brun will, in her talk, present and screen how she explores essayistic film-practice as as a mode of place-thinking, through camera techniques and through her conceptual model of Moving Image Topography. 

Elisabeth Brun (https://elisabethbrun.com/)  is a filmmaker, visual artist and theorist working across artistic research, documentary, and the fields of aesthetics and critical spatial practice. She holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Oslo, and a Post-Master’s in Public Art from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her works has been screened internationally at festivals/venues such as Oberhausen, Seattle Art Museum and Montreal Festival de Nouveau Cinéma, and in 2020 she was awarded Kings´ College´s Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment for her doctoral work. She is the author of Place and the Moving Image (Routledge, 2025).