1. What’s your PhD focused on?

My PhD focuses on creating film structures, which I call Affective Signs, that combine unpredictable moments in reality, nuances of performance and elements of cinematic style, in order to dislocate narrative and give rise to what I refer to as ‘affective significance’. Affective significance is an audio-visual meaning that is located outside of language, knowledge and communication – a meaning that is felt before it can be thought. Affective significance is produced by the Affective Sign in a constant, overtonal (discordant) resonance between Affect and Sign in the moving-still structure of film. For film can be thought of as being simultaneously moving and still: film is a still structure (a series of static frames), permanent and re-playable, opening up to reading and interpretation as text, yet has the ability to capture echoes of the movement of the real, through its indexical, mechanical, non-human access to…