Introduction Compact Cinematics: Screen, Capture, Attention // Pepita Hesselberth (Leiden University, The Netherlands) & Maria Poulaki (University of Surrey, UK)Part 1 [Short] Minimal Narratives
1. Countdown to Zero: Compressing Cinema Time // Tom Gunning (The University of Chicago, US)
2. On Conflict in Short Film Storytelling // Richard Raskin (Aarhus University, Denmark)
3. Accelerated Gestures: Play Time in Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7 // Peter Verstraten (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
4. Lynch on the Run: The Proximity of Trauma in the Short Film // Todd McGowan (The University of Vermont, USA)Part 2 [Condensed] Polyphonic Archives
5. The Ethics of Repair: Re-Animating the Archive // Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
6. Long Story Short // Natalie Bookchin (Rutgers, USA)
7. Skip Intro? Short Video Intros as a Reflexive Threshold in the Interactive Documentary// Tina M. Bastajian (Webster University the Netherlands, The Netherlands)
8. The Viewser as Curator: The Online Film Festival Platform // Geli Mademli (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Part 3 [Compressed] Pleasure & Productivity
9. The Contingent Spectator // Francesco Casetti (Yale University, USA)
10. Speed Watching, Efficiency, and the New Temporalities of Digital Spectatorship // Neta Alexander (The New York University Tisch School of the Arts, USA)
11. Visual Pleasure and GIFs // Anna McCarthy (The New York University Tisch School of the Arts, USA)
12. Solitary Screens: On the Recurrence and Consumption of Images // Pasi Väliaho (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)Part 4 [Miniature] Mobile Cinematics
13. Archaeology of Mobile Film: Blink, Bluvend and the Pocket Short // Kim Louise Walden (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
14. Children’s Little Thumb Films or “Films-Poucets” // Wanda Strauven (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) and Alexandra Schneider (University in Mainz, Germany)
15. Of Flip Books & Funny Animals: Chris Ware’s Quimby the Mouse // Yasco Horsman (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
16. Mobile Cinematics // Maria Engberg (Malmö University, Sweden) and Jay David Bolter (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)Part 5 [Compacted] Urban Ecologies
17. Screening Smart Cities: Managing Data, Views, and Vertigo // Gillian Rose (The Open University, UK)
18. Of Compactness: Life with Media Façade Screens // Ulrik Ekman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
19. Codified Space: Cinematic Recodings of Urban Reality // Justin Ascott (Norwich University of the Arts, UK)