The seventh art is ‘the art of ghosts’, as Jacques Derrida once said. This is what Clélia Zernik, professor of aesthetics at the Paris Beaux-Arts, demonstrates in her brilliant essay L’attrait du…
Pauline Julier’s latest film, Follow the Water (2022), focuses on the Atacama Desert in Chile. This desert, the driest on our planet, is home to huge lithium mines, a metal needed for…
Assemble. That’s the watchword of British artist and filmmaker Louis Henderson. For the past thirteen years, Henderson has been building a 2.0 filmography, essentially using the teeming universe of expanding images and…
Just as the pioneers of experimental cinema reused and distorted sequences from film footage, filmmakers are now drawing on the vast reservoir of Internet images to create new narratives. This feature looks…
“The world has already been filmed, it is now a matter of transforming it”, said Guy Debord in The Society of the Spectacle in 1973. This reservoir of images has since been…
From a fantasy aroused by some men′s underwear packaging, to the search for oneself in the depths of social media, to research into one′s own Iraqi origins; these three films created within…
Marked out by authoritative voices and a proven research methodology, the academic path may seem fairly straightforward. In her book Zizanies, art historian and critic Clara Schulmann takes a different approach, allowing…
Whether working behind the camera, in casting studios, nightclubs, or on a football field, river is methodically helping trans and queer people gain visibility. For a long time, the film industry’s conservative…
There is a unique sort of drama to court proceedings. It is this shaping of reality which sparked Yamina Zoutat’s interest in filmmaking when she was a court reporter. In her films,…
The cinema Department's "À qui donne-t-on la parole?" (Whose Voice?) seminar invited filmmakers and thinkers to offer critical and inquiring perspectives on the issues of representation and the construction of our imagination.…