Biography
Bertrand Bacqué (PhD) is associate professor of cinema at the HEAD – Geneva (HES-SO). He has organized several symposiums, including Dans l’antre du chat (2011), devoted to the work of Chris Marker, and Editing Arts! Montage en mouvement at HEAD – Geneva. In 2015, he co-edited Jeux sérieux, cinéma et art contemporain transforment l’essai and, in 2018, Montage. Une anthologie (1913-2018) published by HEAD and MAMCO. His current research focuses on the essay, montage and series.
Contents
18.12.2023
“We Own This City”, a coda to “The Wire”
With We Own This City (2022), David Simon returns to his favourite city, Baltimore. Based on Justin Fenton’s barely fictionalised investigation, he offers a mini-series that is as dry in its narrative…
30.09.2021
Film montage and its effects
Montage is one of the privileged instruments of cinema for directing the attention and emotions of the spectators. Alfred Hitchcock, who defined himself as a director of spectators before being a director…
30.09.2021
Sound, narrative, performative and spatial sequences
These lectures highlight the physical and material dimension of montage in various contexts outside cinema. Through musical composition, theatre, architecture or literary creation, montage can be a technique as much as a…
30.09.2021
Politics and aesthetics of film montage
From cinema to installation
Against a deluge of images, certain forms of montage, compilation and spatialization allow for a critical engagement with images. Doreen Mende looks back at the approaches of Soviet women editors and the…
30.09.2021
Juxtapositions and hyperlinks
Montage from comics to digital cultures
This series of lectures approaches the notion of montage in arts and activities close to cinema such as new media, video games and comics. Freeing himself from cinemacentrism, Frederik Peeters defends the…