Like the movies we study, Kinomatics has been traversing the globe lately. In May, Deb presented our most recent research that uses our “big data” set of cinema showtimes to reconceptualise film transfers between nations in terms of reciprocity rather than unilateral trade dominance. You can see the slides of Deb’s presentation. Or you can […]
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, […]
Not ones to avoid a debate Deb and Bron have returned to the fray with another article on cinema ticket pricing, this time looking at how cinema ticket prices in Australia have increased in recent years and how the Aussie experience of price hikes compares to price increases internationally. Drawing on evidence sourced from Screen […]
1. Could you describe your background and how you came to work with the kinomatics group? I was born and raised in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. However, I left Northern Europe when I was 19 years old and spent my last four years completing a Bachelor’s degree in the Netherlands and California. Already […]
In January members of the Kinomatics team (Deb, Alwyn and Bronwyn) had a research paper titled: Australian films at large: expanding the evidence about Australian cinema performance , published in Studies in Australasian Cinema. The paper proposes a new way to conceptualise the impact and success of film titles and unsurprisingly we’ve called the […]
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 […]
The Kinomatics team has been working with fliks.com.au on the recently launched online survey of Australian cinema and film watching behavior. The survey known as the ‘Cinema Census’ aims to find out how Australians are watching films and how issues like access to new technologies is changing film consumption behavior. Fliks.com.au editor Steve Newall says: […]
Here at Kinomatics we’ve been thrilled by the response to a recent article in The Conversation by Bronwyn Coate and Deb Verhoeven on the issue of movie ticket pricing in Australia. The article summarises our response to the justifications for a price hike given by some of the leading figures in the exhibition business including Graham […]
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 […]
What is Songification? You may already know about data sonification. Its a technique that’s been successfully used to assist the vision impaired for some time. Its even possible to “listen” to your DNA in the form of a unique sound file. What you may not have heard of is “songification” (yep, there’s ‘g’ in there – […]
