Join renowned film scholar Nicole Brenez (University of Paris 3/Sorbonne Nouvelle) for an exploration of the theory and practice of Internationalist Cinema, a historically-anchored form of political filmmaking which emerges from the belief that isolated sites of struggle are linked by a profound continuum of social and aesthetic concerns. This talk is one of the inaugural events in “French Cinema: History, Theory, Politics,” an ongoing series of cross-campus lectures sponsored by Columbia University and The Graduate Center. It is being held in conjunction with “Internationalist Cinema for Today,” a ten-day retrospective curated by Nicole Brenez for Anthology Film Archives, and with a talk Professor Brenez will give at Columbia University on Thursday, March 1st.
Participants
Nicole Brenez
Nicole Brenez is Professor at the University of Paris-3/Sorbonne Nouvelle. Graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, agrégée of Modern Litterature, she is also a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She published notable works, such as, Une histoire du cinéma d’avant-garde et expérimental en France (2001) or Jean Epstein. Bonjour Cinéma und andere Schriften zum Jean Epstein. Bonjour Cinéma und andere Schriften zum Kino (2008). She is the curator of the Cinémathèque Française’s avant-garde film sessions since 1996 and recipient in 2000 of the ‘Film Preservation of the Anthology Film Archives Award’ in New York.