Jon Inge Faldalen

Jon Inge Faldalen is Head of Screen Cultures, a permanent lecturer and a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communication at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway, where he teaches courses in film history, film theory, alternative film, and audiovisual aesthetics. His doctoral dissertation, titled “STILLMOVING” (2020), examines the aesthetics of stillness in moving images through conceptualizing and theory-building analyses of works of among others the Lumières and James Benning. Faldalen’s long-standing research prism is what he calls the still Einstellung (i.e., a fixed frame or static camera shot).

• "Still Einstellung: Stillmoving Imagenesis" (Article in Discourse, 35:2, 2014)

Academic Interests

• The still Einstellung
• The stillmoving
• Stillmoving imagenesis
• Film style
• Film theory
• Film history
• Media aesthetics
• Television aesthetics
• Norwegian films and series

Teaching

• Screen Cultures
• Skjermkulturer
• Screen Histories and Theories
• Moving North - The Moving Image in Nordic Film and TV Series
• Audiovisual Aesthetics
• Film History (Filmhistorie)
• Alternative Film (Alternativ film)
• Imaging - a University of Image Media (Bildedannelse - et universitet av bildemedier)
• Media Aesthetics (Medieestetikk)
• Cross-Aesthetics (Tverrestetisk prosjektarbeid)
• Textual Analysis (Tekstanalytiske tilnærmingsmåter)
• Photography, Culture, Society (Foto, kultur, samfunn)

Higher education and employment history

• Head of Screen Cultures (2019-)
• University Lecturer (2014-, part of IMK permanent staff)
• PhD Candidate (2011-, handing in thesis late 2019, early 2020)
• University Lecturer (2009 and 2010)
• Master in Media studies (2008)

Ongoing research

• Screen Cultures (2019-)
• The Stillmoving (PhD project, 2019) 
• The Crapcom (Book project, 2020)