Ella Raidel

download cv
Singapore (residence), Austria (citizenship)
research interests: Experimental Cinema, Contemporary Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Interdisciplinary Research Urban Studies, East and Southeast Asian Cinema, Sinophone Cinema, Nonfiction Cinema, Documentary Film
affiliation: NTU Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
en

Ella Raidel, Ph.D., is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher. She is Asst.Prof. at NTU Singapore in a joint appointment between ADM The School of Art, Design, and Media and WKWSCI Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. In her interdisciplinary works – films, videos, research, and discourses – she focuses on the socio-cultural aspects of globalization, urbanization, and the representation of images. Her hybrid practice is to create a discursive space for filmmaking, art, and research. In recent years, she has been concerned with China’s unprecedented growth and rapid urban changes, in experimenting with new documentary modes, narrations and methods.

 

 

www.ellaraidel.com

www.hauntedspaces.net

www.apileofghosts.com

www.doublehappiness.at

 

research

research expositions

  • Of Haunted Spaces (2022) author(s): Ella Raidel published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    Of Haunted Spaces is an art-based research project focusing on Chinese ghost cities. This exposition follows the making of an essay film that combines acting and documenting to indicate the phantasmatic aspect of global capitalism. In China, the need to maintain and boost economic growth through surplus production results in more cities being built than are needed. This exposition investigates how global capitalism is affecting and haunting living conditions today. Urban spaces, which were once a grandiose vision for boosting prosperity through collective fantasy, have now become exhausted and empty sites. Ella Raidel develops a performative documentary film to create a discursive space in which facts, analyses, commentaries, and references are woven into one narrative.
     open exposition comments (0)