We have a calendar year, a financial year, and a year of the monkey. Why not a Hobbit year? The Kinomatics project has been rethinking the use of the calendar year for the study of film exhibition. The calendar year has its benefits. It is easily justifiable, it fits with most other forms of data […]
Members of the Kinomatics team are looking forward to presenting at a number of international conferences in Europe this year. We will be delivering a total of 7 papers at 3 conferences in Milan, Glasgow, and Lausanne. Our research will span the ranking of cities for cinemability, the relationship between remittances and the distribution of […]
We will be presenting our research at the upcoming leading international conference in Digital Humanities in Lausanne, Switzerland this July. Our research will focus on the tracking of films at a global scale and the relationship between remittances and film distribution. For information about the conference and program see the conference website. ABSTRACT: Kinomatics: big […]
We are very pleased to announce that we will presenting a panel on the research of Kinomatics at the Screen Studies Conference in Glasgow in late June, which this year has a focus on Landscape and Environment. Our panel will focus on 3 main components of our research: Scale, Flow, and Ranking. For information on […]
The Kinomatics team will be presenting at the upcoming NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) conference in Milan, Italy. For details on the conference and presentation times see the Conference Program. Deb Verhoeven, together with Richard Maltby, will be discussing the challenges and opportunities that big cinema data offers both traditional film studies […]
“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 […]
Today we are having our Annual ARC Meeting for Only at the Movies. From left to right: Alwyn, Colin, Deb and Bronwyn. Also in the room (via the phone and not on camers): Richard and Kate.
The US has experienced it’s most successful box office summer (although this hasn’t been without it’s share of failures). This summer has been of particular interest due to the strong international presence contributing to the box office results. The international market is a growing market for Hollywood – impacting on the types of films produced, […]
A map of all cinema venues in our Global Movie Screenings database. The light green points are single screen venues whilst the dark green points are multiple screen venues (two screens or greater). You can see that there is still a strong presence of single screen cinema venues around the world. This visualisation is produced […]
This map is a Cartogram of the number of screens for all venues within our Global Movie Screenings database aggregated to a country level scale. Cartograms don’t use the value of area to depict the area of each feature (in this case country). Instead, they use other attributes to dictate the size of the feature. […]
