Matthias Grotkopp is Assistant Professor at the Seminar for Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He supervises the project “Intervening World Projections: Audiovisuality of Climate Change” at the CRC 1512. Grotkopp was post-doc and deputy director at “Cinepoetics – Center for Advanced Film Studies” (2015-2024) and is the author of Cinematic Poetics of Guilt. Audiovisual Accusation as a Mode of Commonality (2021). His research interests include the audiovisuality of the climate crisis, the relation of politics and poetics, as well as digital methods of film analysis.