How bad is gender inequality in the global filmindustry? It is much worse than you think. The Kinomatics team have been examining our Showtime Dataset to identify how films directed by women are distributed across the globe. We found that around 15% of new release feature films are directed by women (alone or in teams […]
Read Part One of this post here. PART 2. Visualising Male Producer Networks This aspect of the project was undertaken by Stuart Palmer. This data on creative roles in films contains within it the information to describe the networked structure of creative team relationships embodied in the film set analysed. Social network analysis (SNA) provides […]
In September, Deb traveled to KU Leuven to give the opening keynote at a conference on Intersectionality in the Digital Humanities. Her focus was twofold, asking: What can we learn about intersectionality from working with our data and relatedly, What can we learn from intersectionality to understand our data better The presentation was principally concerned […]
A capacity audience at the Deakin University Melbourne City Centre attended our end of year kinomatics symposium on December 4: Culture….Data → Meaning We would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in what proved to be a jam packed day. Speakers on the day included Colin Arrowsmith, Bronwyn Coate, Ben Eltham, Alex Gionfriddo, […]
There are two ways of considering the flow of film exhibition: geographically and temporally. The following two visualisations of the film “Anna Karenina” which showed towards the end of 2012 through to mid-2013 illustrates geographic as well as temporal movement. Geographic The world map above shows the mean centre of screenings for Anna Karenina for […]
“When working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong” (Richard Buckminster Fuller). I first heard this quote last week when participating in a workshop presented by Andy Kirk, a data […]
