
SONATA 14
Lost highways, forgotten travels: The road movie in the post-war American avant-garde and experimental film through the lens of women and men filmmakers
Duration: 2019-06 to 2023-12
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding body: National Science Center, Poland
Grant no: UMO-2018/31/D/HS2/01553
Funding: circa 74000 USD
Image: Premonition (Dominic Angerame, 1995)

Research results
Books
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video. Leiden: Brill, pp. 292.
DOI: 10.1163/9789004537989
Journal issues edited
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2021. Landscape, Travel and the Gaze in Experimental Film and Video, special issue of Papers on Language and Literature 57 (1), pp. 116.
ISSN: 0031-1294
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2024. “Windowscapes, dreamscapes and screen texts: train travel as performative practice in experimental film and video.” Text and Performance Quarterly 44(4): 331-353.
DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2024.2320643
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2024. “Cityscapes, trance states and women walking: Embodied practices of walking in experimental film and video.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 22(1): 109-134.
DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2023.2261349
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. “From naked bike rides to spectacles of motion: cycling and the rider-bicycle in experimental documentary film.” Studies in Documentary Film 18 (3): 209-225.
DOI: 10.1080/17503280.2022.2140369
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. “Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video.” Mobilities 18 (2), 218-231.
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2090021
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2021. “Do gender, genre and the gaze still matter? Toward a feminine road movie in women’s experimental film.” Feminist Media Studies 23 (5): 1962-1977.
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.2004194
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2021. “From car frenzy to car troubles: automobilities, highway driving and the road movie in experimental film.” Mobilities 16(4), 524-536.
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1895673
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2021. “Easy Rider and Thelma & Louise Revisited, or on Experimental Film Remakes of the Road Movie.” Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 14(2), 145-161.
DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00050_1
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2021. “Introduction: Landscape, Travel and the Gaze in Experimental Film and Video.” Papers on Language and Literature 57(1), 3-12.
ISSN: 0031-1294
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2021. “Slow Ecocinema, the Forest and the Eerie in Experimental Film and VR (360-degree) Nature Videos.” Papers on Language and Literature 57(1), 27-49.
ISSN: 0031-1294
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2021. “The crime scene that never is, or how Echo plays with the forensic gaze.” Short Film Studies 11(1), 107-112.
DOI: 10.1386/sfs_00041_1
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2020. “Boredom revisited, or how Andy Warhol predated slow cinema.” Short Film Studies 10(2), 157-162.
DOI: 10.1386/sfs_00008_1
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2020. “Performing CPR on celluloid in Blow-Up.” Short Film Studies 10(1), 111-115.
DOI: 10.1386/sfs.10.1.111_1
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2020. “Dwellers That Do Not Belong, Dwellings That No Longer Exist: Staging Hotel Interiors and (Unhomely) Domesticity in Experimental Documentary Film.” Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space 17(1), 1-20.
DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2020.1757382
Books chapters
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. “Windshield Tourism Goes Viral: On YouTube Scenic Drive Videos of U.S. National Parks.” In Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic, edited by Erik Champion, Christina Lee, Jane Stadler and Robert Moses Peaslee. New York: Routledge, 27-45.
DOI: 10.4324/9781003327585-3
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2020. “Between Preservation and Disintegration in Decayed Cinema: The Uncanny and the Weird of the Sublime Archival Image in Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia) and Bill Morrison’s Decasia.” In: The Cinematic Sublime: Negative Pleasures, Structuring Absences, edited by Nathan Carroll. Bristol: Intellect, 40-52.
ISBN: 9781789382396
Curated programs
Personal Road Movies (book launch/special program), Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, September 23, 2023
Lost Highways, Embodied Travels (book launch/special program), UnionDocs, New York, NY, December 7, 2023
Conference talks
“Gender, genre and the gaze still matter? Toward a feminine road movie in women’s avant-garde and experimental filmmaking”, 61st Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, online, March 17-21, 2021
“Immersion, changing (auto)mobilities and the backseat passengering in experimental film and VR 360 video”, 75th University of Film and Video Association conference, online, July 27-30, 2021
“The Road Movie in Transition: Automobilities and the Corporeal turn in Avant-garde and Experimental Film”, 14th European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference: Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies, online, June 7-13, 2021
“American avant-garde and the female gaze: (Re)Visions of space, mobility and corporeality in contemporary women’s experimental travel film”, 33rd European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference, online, April 30-May 2, 2021
“Distraction, tactility, absorption: Las Vegas in the contemporary city symphony film”, 118th PAMLA Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, November 11-14, 2021
“Windshield tourism, popular culture and the architecture of (auto)mobility: Las Vegas in VR and 360 drive videos”, 34th Far West Popular Culture Association Annual Conference: Crisis, Culture and Communities, online, Mar 4-6, 2022
“Scenic drive videos, virtual windshield tourism, and the eco-gaze”, 31st International Screen Studies Conference, online, July 1-3, 2022
“The horse, come horsey: Animals, gender and the body in experimental film”, Cinema in the Anthropocene, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, June 24-25, 2022
“What Does It Mean to Become Animal? Gender, Queer Embodiment and the Human-Horse in Experimental Film and Media”, 64th Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Denver, CO, April 12-15, 2023
Guest lectures
“Horsey is not a metaphor: Humans-animal relations, gender and the body in experimental film” (guest lecture), Language of Empowerment: International Week for Equality and Inclusion, Poznan, 15 November 2021 (online)
“WOMEN MAKE MOVIES! Women and American avant-garde film” (guest lecture), Department of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, 7 December 2021 (online)
Blog entries
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. “Cityscapes, Trance States and Wayfaring Women.” New Review of Film and Television Studies, November 11, 2023, https://www.nrftsjournal.org/women-and-gender-in-media/cityscapes
Other talks
“Planes, trains, automobiles: The road movie in American experimental film and video”, Friday Lunch Talks, AMU Faculty of English, Poznań, 11 December 2020
“Women’s independent and experimental film”, The Long Anglicist Night, 26 November 2021
“Slow cinema through the lens of experimental filmmakers”, Poznan Festival of Science and Art, 2 June 2022
Seminars
66th Flaherty Film Seminar, July 9-18, 2021 (online)

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