Taking the dynamics of multilingual encounters as its starting point, At the Bottom of the Frame. Über Untertitel addresses the complex­ities of subtitling, the challenges associated with translation processes and the multi­faceted relationship between cinematic and linguistic content. Visual material from the video work Rengashis' Room by Lea Hopp (former Dorothea Schlegel Artist-in-Residence) enters into dialogue with an essay by Sulgi Lie on artistic strategies of text-image juxtaposition and their theoretical implications, while a conversation between Hopp and Carol O'Sullivan sheds light on the manifold functions fulfilled by subtitles throughout their history.

The video work Rengashis' Room, in which this sixth volume of the con·stel·la·tions series has its origins, was realised by Hopp in dialogue with the EXC 2020 research project Motdynamo (Anna Luhn, Research Area 4: Literary Currencies).

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On 17 September 2025, a book launch took place at the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg "Carl von Ossietzky" as part of the IndieStabi event series.

  

Lea Hopp, Sulgie Lie, Caroll O'Sullivan. At the Bottom of the Frame. Über Untertitel. con·stel·la·tions 06. Hamburg: Textem Verlag, 2025 (open access).