Interview with Raymond Bellour – film audience: unique memory

Monday, 5th December 2012, 12h, Molekula (Delta 5/1, 51000 Rijeka)

A major contributor to contemporary French critical thought, French critic and author Raymond Bellour has advanced the theoretical application of semiotics, psychoanalysis and post-structuralism to the understanding of literary and cinematic texts. From his work on the 19th-century literature of Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne and the Brontës, this discourse has continued with his influentual textual analysis of the apparatus of the classic American cinema, most notably the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Bellour has also written extensively on contemporary video art and curated several major exhibitions. The first volume of his collected essays on film and video,l’Entre-Image, Photo Cinema, Video, was published in 1990; the second volume,l’Entre-Images 2, Mots, Images, was published in 1999.
Bellour received a B.A. and M.A. from the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines in Lyon before founding and directing Artsept cinema journal in 1963. In 1964, he entered the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in psychology and philosophy. At the Institut d’Esthétique et des Sciences de l’Art, he researched both the history and theory of cinema, and French and English literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Bellour received his doctorate from the University of Paris I in 1979. Professor at the Centre Universitaire Américan de Cinéma in Paris from 1973 to the present, he has also been a visiting professor at New York University and the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently director of research at CNRS. Bellour is the co-editor of the cinema journal Trafic.

Organisation by Drugo More and Potufilm. This event is part of the Reflkes series.

Financed by the Croatian Foundation for Civil Society and the Croatian Ministry for Culture.