Conference: “Plan” et “Champs” dans le cinéma des premiers temps

Conference: “Plan” et “Champs” dans le cinéma des premiers temps

  • On 5 October 2019
The conference “Plan” et “Champ” dans le cinéma des premiers temps was held from 8 to 12 June 2016 at the Centre Culturel International de Cerisy. Today, when we analyse a film, we generally employ fairly regularly the concepts “shot” (plan)and “field” (champs), which are then discussed in terms of questions around découpage and image composition, […]
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Study Day: Pour une histoire des laboratoires cinématographiques

Study Day: Pour une histoire des laboratoires cinématographiques

  • On 5 October 2019
The group at the research unit Arts: Pratiques et Poétiques at Université Rennes 2 UFR ALC* organised on Friday 5 October 2018 a study day entitled Nuits rouges: pour une histoire des laboratoires cinématographiques. With François Ede, Jean-Pierre Neyrac and Vanessa Nicolazic in attendance, the study day addressed questions around mergers and acquisitions, Super 16, developers, early colour timing, […]
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Conference: Matérialité, esthétique et histoires des techniques : la collection François Lemai comme laboratoire

Conference: Matérialité, esthétique et histoires des techniques : la collection François Lemai comme laboratoire

  • On 5 October 2019
The international conference Matérialité, esthétique et histoire des techniques: la collection François Lemai comme laboratoirebrought together specialists working in various disciplines at Université Laval from 13 to 17 May 2019 in order to collectively rethink an issue too infrequently taken up in cinema studies, that of the role of technical objects and devices in media history. […]
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TECHNÈS at the 2019 Digital Humanities Showcase

TECHNÈS at the 2019 Digital Humanities Showcase

  • On 5 October 2019
Image: Screen shot of the capsule “La restauration du cinéma amateur sur pellicule: présentation du téléciné” (2019) The seventh edition of the DH Showcaseof the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN), an annual survey of the most recent research in the digital humanities in Montreal, was held on 1 February 2019 at the Université […]
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D-BOX : Demonstration of immersive cinema seats and discussion

D-BOX : Demonstration of immersive cinema seats and discussion

  • On 5 October 2019
Image: Members of the doctoral committee try out D-BOX seats © D-BOX Technologies On Tuesday, 19 February 2019, the Montreal section of the doctoral committee was the guest of D-BOX Technologies, a Quebec company working in sound and virtual reality and which is known in particular for move theatre seats with an immersive motion technology. Following a […]
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An honorary doctorate for André Gaudreault

An honorary doctorate for André Gaudreault

  • On 5 October 2019
The director of TECHNÈS, André Gaudreault, has received an honorary doctorate from Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. This latest distinction was bestowed on him on 14 March 2019 by the University’s president, Patrick Gilli, for having “ceaselessly contributed to the great recognition of cinema studies and of cinema as an artistic experience in its own right . . . […]
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Filmed interviews for the Encyclopaedia of Cinema Techniques and Technologies

Filmed interviews for the Encyclopaedia of Cinema Techniques and Technologies

  • On 5 October 2019
Image: Photograph of the filmed interview with François Ede (February 2019) In February 2019, André Gaudreault and Laurent Le Forestier carried out filmed interviews with Jacques Malthête and François Ede at the Cinémathèque universitaire of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. An expert on the work of Méliès, Jacques Malthête provided invaluable information about stop-camera trick effects and negative and positive […]
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André Gaudreault, Winner of the 2018 Killam Prize for the humanities

André Gaudreault, Winner of the 2018 Killam Prize for the humanities

  • On 1 October 2019
The Laboratoire CinéMédias of the Université de Montréal is pleased to announce that cinema professor André Gaudreault of the Université de Montréal is the winner of the 2018 Killam Prize for the humanities, granted by the Canada Council for the Arts. “The Killam Prizes are awarded to active Canadian scholars who have made a substantial […]
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TECHNÈS on the airwaves of CISM 89.3

TECHNÈS on the airwaves of CISM 89.3

  • On 1 October 2019
Rémy Besson, postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal and scholarly coordinator at TECHNÈS, was interviewed by the radio station CISM 89.3 FM by journalists from Quartier Libre, the student newspaper of the Université de Montréal. This was an opportunity to revisit the various missions underway in the international partnership TECHNÈS, along with its upcoming […]
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The international research partnership on film techniques and technologies, TECHNÈS, aims to rethink film history and its methods by examining the techniques and technologies that have accompanied the medium since its beginnings. For this ambitious program, TECHNÈS is dedicated to the creation of a space for dialogue between universities, archives, cinematheques, and film schools, as well as between scholars and industry technicians.

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