Biography
Isabel Krek (*1985) is Senior Research Assistant SNF in the research project "Research with and on analog film equipment from private Swiss collections" led by Prof. Dr. Florian Krautkrämer. She studied German language and literature, Popular Culture Studies, and Film Studies at the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne and worked for several years as an archivist at the Cinémathèque Suisse before accepting a position in 2018 as a research assistant in the Section d’histoire et esthétique du cinéma at the University of Lausanne, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. on the projection technologies of the silent film era. In addition to this position, she continued to hold various roles at the Cinémathèque Suisse until 2023, including work in film restoration and, most recently, as curator of the equipment collection.
Her key research areas focus on media archaeology and the history of film and cinema technology, film historiography, early film history, the history of the cinema as a space of communal experience, and film restoration. Her other interests include personal artistic collaborative projects (music, illustration), social ecology and political theory.
