“Mourning in the Age of the Digital: Memory, Loss and Experimental Filmmaking.” Lecture by Prof. Marine Beugnet (Edinburgh)
Thursday, March 10th 2011, 5.00-6.30 pm.
Location: Muntstraat 2A, 1.11
abstract:
In this paper I propose to look at a specific instance of film reflecting on its own predicted demise. I look at experimental practices where direct intervention on the film strip becomes part of a process of remembering and mourning. I argue that these are exemplary not merely of a mise en abyme of, or of a nostalgic lament for, the disappearance of celluloid, but of a creative reworking of the “obsolescence” thesis that encourages us to re-consider the “death of film” controversy in material as well political terms.
Professor Martine Beugnet is convenor of Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Marginalité, sexualité, contrôle: cinéma français contemporain, l’Harmattan, 2000, Claire Denis, M.U.P. series on French Directors, Manchester University Press, 2004, Proust at the Movies, in collaboration with Marion Schmid, Ashgate, 2005, Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression, EUP, 2007. She has also written articles and essays on a wide range of contemporary cinema topics, including, in 2009/2010, contributions to the anniversary issues of the Australian Journal of French Studies, Studies in French Cinema and Screen.
This lecture is a special edition of MCW’s What’s Cooking?! research platform, organized by MIRACLE, (http://miracleresearch.wordpress.com/)