School of Creative Technologies (CT)

BSc (Hons) (Imperial)

MA (London)

MA (Westminster)

PG Dip. (Westminster)

 

I am a maker and writer on cinema and other performing arts. I am currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Portsmouth in the film essay and cine auto-ethnography in Jewish London.

My short films have included Leaving the Table (2007) and L'Esprit de l'Escalier (2010) both of which enjoyed exposure at several international film festivals. I am currently completing my first mixed animation/live action docu drama on Leon Trotsky entitled Dream Life of Debris.

I have co-written and edited the textbook, Introduction to Documentary Production (2002) and contributed to Introduction to Film Studies (2012) and Promotion in the Age of Convergence (2013).

My only play, Isle of Joy, was presented as a workshop performance at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London, 2005.

 

Current Research

I am currently a candidate for a practical PhD in the film essay and cine auto-ethnography, My Jewish London, University of Portsmouth. There is evidence to suggest that for reasons to do with self-identification as ‘other’  that Jewish Londoners will have a heightened awareness of where they are within the public realm (paraphrasing Vaughan, 2012). Rituals, performativity, social practices that are played out in “private” may bleed into what is recorded in “public,” on the walk by the participants (see Botticello 2007: 7-24). In my practical PhD I test the utility of the filmed performative, contemplative walk as a method to decentre, challenge and upstage the dominant representation of Jewish London in mainstream documentary. I have taken as my fieldwork study the Liberal (Reform) Jewish London Community – in particular the communities self defined as LGBTQ – Rainbow Jews (oral history project funded by National Lottery), JGLG and BKY.

Publications

Books^{[Back to top]}

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Kochberg, S. (2002). Introduction to documentary production. London: Wallflower Press.

Edited Books^{[Back to top]}

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Kochberg, S. (2002). Introduction to documentary production. London: Wallflower Press.

 

Articles^{[Back to top]}

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Kochberg, S. (2003). What’s up docs. Kamera, 1, 41-44.

 

Chapters in Edited Books^{[Back to top]}

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Kochberg, S. (2013) Cinema: A Reflection on How the Film Industry Promotes Itself. In: Powell, H. eds. (2013) Promotional Culture in an Era of Convergence. 1st ed. London: Routledge.

Kochberg, S. (2012) Industrial contexts of film production. . In: Nelmes, J. eds. (2012) Introduction to Film Studies. 5th ed. London: Routledge, p.2-40.

Kochberg, S. (2011) Jewish London and film. In: Kolsky, R. and Rawson, R. eds. (2011) Jewish London: A comprehensive handbook for visitors and Londoners. 1st ed. London: New Holland, p.204-205.

Kochberg, S. (2007). The industrial contexts of film production. In J. Nelmes (Ed.), Introduction to film studies, 4th edition (pp. 24-58) London: Routledge.

Kochberg, S. (2003). Cinema as institution. In J. Nelmes (Ed.), Introduction to film studies, 3rd edition (pp. 00-00). London: Routledge.

Kochberg, S. (1999). Cinema as institution. In J. Nelmes (Ed.), Introduction to film studies, 2nd edition (pp. 00-00). London: Routledge.

Kochberg, S. (1996). Cinema as institution. In J. Nelmes (Ed.), Introduction to film studies (pp. 7-59). London: Routledge.

 

Book Reviews^{[Back to top]}

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Kochberg, S. (2013) The Worlds of Wolf Mankowitz by [Unknown], reviewed in FFNM (Jewish Film and New Media: An international journal), 0(0), 00.

Kochberg, S. (2010) Academic Films for the Classroom: A History, reviewed in JAST (Journal of American Studies of Turkey), 32(0), 111-113.

Kochberg, S. (1997). Blumenfeld: a fetish for beauty by [Unknown], reviewed in Jewish Quarterly, 43(4), 00.

 

Invited Guest/Plenary Lectures^{[Back to top]}

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‌London Jewish Cultural Centre (Various, 2013+).

“Jewish London and Film”, Jewish Book Week, Phoenix Theatre, London (Feb 2012).

 

Conference Papers (unpublished)^{[Back to top]}

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Kochberg, S. (2013) ‘Roots and Routes’, accepted for International Visual Sociology Association 2013, Goldsmiths College, London.

Kochberg, S. (2013) ‘My Jewish London’, accepted for MeCCSA Conference, University of Ulster, Derry.

Kochberg, S. (2010) ‘Terms of Reference’, accepted for Visible Evidence XVII Conference, Bogazici University, Istanbul.

Friedman, Y., Kochberg, S. (2005) ‘Jews and Gypsies Strand: Conference Paper’, accepted for Fortress Europe Conference, University College London, London.

 

Artefacts (Films)^{[Back to top]}

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Kochberg, S. (Dir., 2013). Dream Life of Debris. Mixed live action/ docu drama short. To be entered in Documentarist Film Festival, Istanbul, 2013.

‌Kochberg, S. (Dir.), Paskin, S., Lee, C. & Jordan, D. (2010).  L’Esprit de l’Escalier. A short poetic documentary whose themes are architectural space, identity politics and memory. Screened at Festival du Cinéma de Paris, Paris, 2011; Documentarist Film Festival, Istanbul; Visible Evidence XVII Conference, Bogazici University, Istanbul;  Jewish Eye International Film Festival, Beer Sheva, Israel, November 2010.

Kochberg, S. (Dir., 2006). Leaving the table. Screened at the Jewish Eye International Film Festival, Beer Sheva, Israel, 2006; Limmud Conference, University of Warwick, 2009. (On Youtube).

Kochberg, S. (Dir., 2005) Isle of Joy. Performed reading at Tristan Bates Theatre, London, 2005.

Kochberg, S. (Dir., 2003). Irene Runge: My Way. Screened Crosscurrents, countercurrents: border crossing in European cinema, University of Bath, 2004; Fortress Europe conference, University College London, 2004; Limmud Conference, University of Warwick, 2009. (On Youtube).

 

Professional Memberships^{[Back to top]}

Steering Committee, Rainbow Jews, Oral History Project – funded by the National Lottery

Member, British Film Institute