Analyzing cinematographic and audiovisual works in a digital context. New tools, new practices. – NUMALYSE

The Collaborative Research Project "Analyzing cinematographic and audiovisual works in a digital context. New tools, new practices" (NUMALYSE) will offer the academic, educational and cultural communities new digital tools to facilitate the analysis of cinematographic and audiovisual works and their presentation in order to support the development of new practices. It associates six research teams in France and one in Quebec, from the arts, in particular film and audiovisual studies, and from Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies.
The project, which will last four years, will take place in two phases. The first period will be dedicated to a review of the practices of film and audiovisual analysis and to a historical, epistemological and socio-technical questioning of the "equipped" practices of analysis. This research will feed the conception of new tools and the exploration of innovative modalities of presentation of analytical work. A software tool will be developed - a "super" video player (SLV) with enhanced functionalities - for all practitioners of analysis. Prototypes of "critical works" - analyses of films or audiovisual productions presented in alternative forms (video essays, scenographed video installations, immersive works...) - will be produced according to a research-creation process.
In a second phase, also a time to promote the project to cultural institutions and audiences, artificial intelligence modules of recognition (detection of forms and behaviours) will be developed which will eventually be integrated in an evolved version of the SLV software. The production process of the critical works will be documented, and they will be exhibited, together with the main scientific events of the project, and finally on the web platform of the project.