Talks by Nicolas Helm-Grovas
A symposium held at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (UAL) on 26 March 2015. Organ... more A symposium held at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (UAL) on 26 March 2015. Organised by Claire M. Holdsworth and Colin Perry, with the support of CSM Research.
This symposium presented papers by researchers based in Britain and Europe, considering exhibition histories, archives, canons and texts relating to film and video practices since the 1960s.
Speakers:
Lucy Rose Bayley (Middlesex University / Institute of Contemporary Arts, London)
Enrico Camporesi (University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 / University of Bologna)
Nicolas Helm-Grovas (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Liz Kim (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Chiara Marchini (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Lisa Parolo (University of Udine, Italy)
Kathryn Siegel (Alumni - Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, UAL)
<http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/3/26/Doctoral-Symposium-Writing-Histories-of-the-Moving-Image/>
Events by Nicolas Helm-Grovas
Co-organiser of one-day conference at Open School East, 23 Jan 2016.
Papers by Nicolas Helm-Grovas
in Martin Brady and Helen Hughes (eds.), The Cinema of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (Cambridge: Legenda, 2023).
This chapter lays out a partial and provisional typology of the intellectual in Huillet’s and Str... more This chapter lays out a partial and provisional typology of the intellectual in Huillet’s and Straub’s films. As a way of drawing out various distinct threads, I deploy three categories: programmes (emphasising a visionary, utopian conception of intellectual work), negations (emphasising its critical aspect), and abolitions (exemplifying a desire to overcome the intellectual as a distinct social type opposed to the manual worker). The analysis is structured around two principles. First, the division between intellectual and manual labour. Second, in Huillet and Straub's films, this is typically figured through the distribution of speech.
British Film Institute eBooks, 2023
Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey (eds.), Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017), 2017
Writing at the end of the 1970s, Raymond Bellour claims that the semiotics of cinema 'never truly... more Writing at the end of the 1970s, Raymond Bellour claims that the semiotics of cinema 'never truly existed except in its first incarnations as pure methodological space, as programmatic overture to a work or as a merely virtual study'. In this book chapter I map some of the contours of this methodological space as it came into being in late 1960s and 1970s British film culture, tracking some of the crucial figures, texts (translations and critical essays), publications, pedagogical spaces and institutions, almost all centred on London, concluding with the importance of semiotics for the politics and aesthetics of a number of independent films in Britain in the period, by the London Women's Film Group, the Berwick Street Collective, and Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen.
This article charts the history of the British film magazine Afterimage, from its prehistory at t... more This article charts the history of the British film magazine Afterimage, from its prehistory at the University of Essex in the late 1960s to its final issue in 1987. I trace Afterimage’s presentation of various interlocking strands of experimental and political cinema, the mutations in its theoretical and aesthetic postures, and the imbrication of the journal and its editors – Simon Field, Peter Sainsbury, and later Ian Christie and Michael O’Pray – in alternative, independent practices of film-making, programming, distribution and publishing. Via Afterimage, I sketch the history of a larger radical film culture in Britain that emerged in the late 1960s but had largely dissipated as the 1980s drew to a close.
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Talks by Nicolas Helm-Grovas
This symposium presented papers by researchers based in Britain and Europe, considering exhibition histories, archives, canons and texts relating to film and video practices since the 1960s.
Speakers:
Lucy Rose Bayley (Middlesex University / Institute of Contemporary Arts, London)
Enrico Camporesi (University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 / University of Bologna)
Nicolas Helm-Grovas (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Liz Kim (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Chiara Marchini (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Lisa Parolo (University of Udine, Italy)
Kathryn Siegel (Alumni - Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, UAL)
<http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/3/26/Doctoral-Symposium-Writing-Histories-of-the-Moving-Image/>
Events by Nicolas Helm-Grovas
Papers by Nicolas Helm-Grovas
This symposium presented papers by researchers based in Britain and Europe, considering exhibition histories, archives, canons and texts relating to film and video practices since the 1960s.
Speakers:
Lucy Rose Bayley (Middlesex University / Institute of Contemporary Arts, London)
Enrico Camporesi (University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 / University of Bologna)
Nicolas Helm-Grovas (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Liz Kim (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Chiara Marchini (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Lisa Parolo (University of Udine, Italy)
Kathryn Siegel (Alumni - Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, UAL)
<http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/3/26/Doctoral-Symposium-Writing-Histories-of-the-Moving-Image/>