The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images

In Film and Video Intermediality, Janna Houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions “what is meant by video?” and “what is meant by film?”

The master’s programme in Film and Photographic Studies at Leiden University covers the history and theory of film and photography within the broad context of visual and other media.

Do you enjoy a great story? In the Bachelor's programme Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University you study the stories behind the stories. Because what makes a novel fascinating or a horror movie frightening? Study film, literature and media from around the entire world and discover the differences…

Are you thinking about studying Film and Photographic Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

Thomas Mes defended his thesis on 9 January 2018.

The Film and Photographic Studies programme will equip you with a broad and interdisciplinary knowledge of lens-based mediums.

The purpose of LENS is to foster, coordinate and support research of visual media of analog and digital photography, film, and video, and the visual arts.

The purpose of LENS – to foster, coordinate and support research in the area of the visual arts and visual media of photography, film, video and digital media – is connected to the objectives of the Master program Film and Photographic Studies.

Haunted Europe offers a comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland…

The master in Media Studies is a one-year programme with four specialisations. Each specialisation explores connections between the various media and examines both present-day and historical material.

LENS is engaged in the drawing up a cartography of the mediascape, past and present, researching the dispositifs and ecologies of image production and presentation, which stretch across diverse geo-political areas as well as institutional, discursive and technological fields.

On some Sunday evenings the NVIC is presenting NVICinema. We bring a varied programme of Dutch or Flemish films, Egyptian classics as well as contemporary Egyptian feature films and short films from young talented directors, all with English subtitles.

If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed.

Show People offers a comprehensive history of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

Leiden University has made history with its many scientific discoveries; a history that is also illustrated in a variety of books and films.

Watch our video about the activity programme titled Beyond Content: materiality of text and image and the in depth video's with our curators. (with subtitles in English)

This programme video is presented in Dutch

On 7 September 2023 Didem Durak Akser successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

On this digital video wall, you can find the videos provided by several attendees of the XY workshop 2022.

View the aftermovies of the run here.

Want to get to know the master's programmes of Leiden University? Watch the video's of the master's programmes at Leiden University.

Watch the introduction video's of the master's programmes at Leiden University. Every introduction video will provide you with the basic information of the master's programme, so after watching you are fully equipped to join the live in-depth presentations during the Master's Online Open Days.

We are excited to announce the book publication of our alumnus Dr. Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: The Auditory Setting Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts.

LUCIS produces various video series and MOOCs to showcase the variety of expertise available at Leiden University.

The Academic Language Centre has developed 4 video clips on Literature Review. Watch them below for a good start to your studies!

The Academic Language Centre has developed 10 video clips on Academic Presenting. Watch them below for a good start to your studies!

How can video on professional practices in university courses be used in a valid and useful way for assessment and feedback?

This thesis manuscript explores the use of video games as tools for conceptual exploration and academic research.

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

The Academic Language Centre has developed 19 video clips on Academic Skills. The videos are divided into three categories. Watch them below for a good start to your studies!

This week 'Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis' by Peter Verstraten was published by Amsterdam University Press, the sequel to Humor and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film from 2016. Each chapter in his 482-page new study begins with a title of Fons Rademakers who made films…

Can playing certain games decrease cognitive decline or even enhance cognitive performance in the aging population?

The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…

A defining fixture of our contemporary world, video games offer a rich spectrum of engagements with the past.

Find out how to apply for Film and Photographic Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.

The transition period in which men become fathers might provide an important window of opportunity for parenting interventions that may produce long-term positive effects on paternal care and, consequently, child development. Existing prenatal programs traditionally focus on maternal and infant health…

The short film Alma & Esperanza , directed by Itandehui Jansen, a PhD candidate (directing supervisor Professor Dr. Kitty Zijlmans) of the Leiden University Academy for Creative and Performing Arts, has been selected to the Short Film Corner of this year’s edition of the Cannes International Film Fe…