Anna Kolesnikov delivered the paper on simulating drone and bodily gestures entitled “Rhythmic Patterns and Time Perception in Audiovisual Experience” at the Rethinking Rhythm in Film one-day symposium, held at Anglia Ruskin University on 22 May 2025.
More than fifty years ago, Noël Burch observed that ‘cinematic rhythm is defined by the sum total of all the parameters’ of film. Contemporary studies, however, tend to be more circumscribed in their ambitions; despite much important contemporary research, rhythm rarely occupies the same kind of anchoring position it held for many pioneering film theorists, from Sergei Eisenstein to Jean Mitry via Jean Epstein. This one-day symposium aims to contribute to the reinvigoration of the study of rhythm as a central aspect of film, whether developing strands of contemporary thought and practice, suggesting entirely new avenues of investigation, or revising and rethinking earlier theories.