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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Connaissance de cinéma, the new program by TECHNÈS broadcast on Canal Savoir

Connaissance de cinéma, the new program by TECHNÈS broadcast on Canal Savoir

  • On 1 October 2019
TECHNÈS is launching its new television series Connaissance du cinéma, which plunges to the heart of cinema technology by bringing together professionals from the expanded film community representing two different generations. Conceived by André Habib, professor in the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques de l’Université de Montréal and produced by TECHNÈS, in collaboration with […]
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Connaissance du cinéma episodes now available online

Connaissance du cinéma episodes now available online

  • On 1 October 2019
The first five episodesof the educational series Connaissance du cinéma, conceived by André Habib, professor in the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiquesat the Université de Montréal and produced by TECHNÈS in collaboration with the Laboratoire multimédia (LaM) of the Faculté des arts et des sciencesat the Université de Montréal, are now freely available on the […]
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Connaissance du cinéma referenced in the Toronto Film Review

Connaissance du cinéma referenced in the Toronto Film Review

  • On 1 October 2019
The film criticism web site Toronto Film Reviewpraised the first season of Connaissance du cinéma, the popular education program produced by TECHNÈS, in collaboration with the Laboratoire multimédia (LaM) and the Faculté des arts et des sciences de l’Université de Montréal. We reproduce the site’s comments below: “Un nouveau chef-d’oeuvre d’André Habib? Maybe. . . […]
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Interview with the editor Sophie Brunet

Interview with the editor Sophie Brunet

  • On 1 October 2019
An interview with the editor Sophie Brunet, shot in October 2017 in Rennes as part of the activities of the international Doctoral Committee, has been posted on-line on the site of Université Rennes 2. Links to the three parts of the interview are below: – Matières du montage – Temps du montage – Circulations du montage
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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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