University of Amsterdam
Media Studies
This research aims at providing a Bazinian approach to framing in Peter Greenaway’s The Tulse Luper Suitcases (P. Greenaway, 2003) by discussing both the ontology of the digital image and the aesthetics of internal framing in which... more
This essay elaborates on how the digital derealisation allows the cinematic screen to be framed internally, thereby deserting the frame-is-screen paradigm and resulting in what I call non-diegetic framing as opposed to diegetic framing.
By analyzing aerial perspectives in W. Wenders' "Wings of Desire" (1987), this paper elaborates on what could be described as a vertiginous cinematic experience in which the relationship between memory and history is conceived in terms of... more
I borrowed the title for this essay from a particular moment in Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World (1991). Throughout the film, Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) follows her future lover Sam (William Hurt), who has been collecting... more
Le cinéma au musée ? Les installations vidéo ? Le recyclage généralisé des images ? Les fi lms sur internet ou sur le téléphone portable ? Les grands écrans urbains qui éclairent la nuit des noctambules ? N'en déplaise aux puristes, aux... more
On the occasion of this meeting I propose to expound the arguments which are the first part of my PHD. The main hypothesis is that « apparatus theory » is following the structurals methods (developped during the sixties). To argue this... more
A brief introduction to the possible link between Bazin's implicit existentialism and the film historical importance of an avant-garde, in the context of the 1949 Festival du film maudit.
Au moyen d’une association inimitable du cinéma avec le monde, André Bazin développe son idée d’un mythe du cinéma, dans laquelle il développe sa notion du “réalisme intégral” comme l’ontologie de l’image cinématographique. Comme il écrit... more