Seeing Without Words, Understanding Beyond Borders
Cinema Objects' Silent Film Project transforms passive film consumption into active composition. Our amplified information processing platform analyzes credited cinema through a unique lens, encouraging learners of all backgrounds to unlock deeper meaning, maintain and create narratives. We participate in the evolution of language by distributing essential twenty-first-century skills that control for bias, elevate culture and affirm our shared global identity.
Traditional literacy education overlooks film, the dominant medium of our time. Media illiteracy limits critical thinking about narrative structures and stokes disengagement for those seeking human connection and inclusion.
Interactors learn what filmmakers were doing by doing it themselves in a new medium. They compose with moving images grounded in scholarship and critical reception. By attaching work to objects that outlast them, artists reformulate their positions in space and time.
In our industry creators claim a new medium and compose within it. When artists create custom screen work that attaches to tangible objects, they gain access to fluency intertwined with innovated positions in space (art objects) and time (new films). Through use in our new medium, silent era cinema's visual language, cited, cultivated and verified, re-emerges, then grows.
Kirsten Stoffa has over twenty years directing complex media projects across film, television and digital platforms. Key credits include editorial work on Che: Part One (2008) and Fading Gigolo (2013), ten seasons of public television, and subtitling for international co-productions.
Through Stoffa Productions she directed web design and creative strategy for clients including the Mahalia Jackson biographical site (Webby Award, 2005) and Release, founded by George Harrison. For this project she applies language learning model technology and amplified information processing to verified research for writing tool building and linguistic medium development.
MA Latin American Studies, Tulane. BA Latin American Studies, UT Austin. Certificates: Creative Writing (Wesleyan), Film Editing (NYU, The Edit Center). Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish. French in progress.