Thinking about cinema and interacting
with those who think and make
it have always been at the heart of the
CFF fundamentals that our friend,
Nejib Ayed, has never ceased to defend.
As an Intellectual and cinema duff, he
wanted to multiply these centers of thoughts in order
to maintain the primary vocation of this festival.
The Master classes of this session will welcome
Jean-Michel Frodon , a critic, historian and university
lecturer.
The meeting with Jean-Michel Frodon will focus on
themes that concern the author of Horizon cinema. It
will be a matter of redefining the new challenges that
are emerging around the seventh art, its place and
functions in present times that are marked by two
fundamental aspects: globalization and digitization.
Two interdependent processes that disrupt the original
structure and status of cinema tend to «unify the
imaginaries».
Are we facing a new crisis of the seventh art?
How and where does cinema resist this double movement?
What is the role of criticism?
Tarek Ben Chaabane
French journalist, critic, teacher and film historian. He has a degree in
history. He is a journalist and film critic for the weekly Le Point, then for
the daily Le Monde, where he then became head of the film section.
From 2003 to 2009, he was editor of the Cahiers du cinéma. Since
September 2009, he has been running the Public Projection blog on slate.
fr and became editor of this online media in 2010.
In 2014, he was appointed vice-president of the Commission aide aux
Cinémas du monde, which is part of the CNC and the Institut français.
He is a contributor to many film magazines. He writes frequently for the
online daily news paper AOC. He is also a regular lecturer at universities:
he is a professor at Sciences Po and an Honorary Professor at the University
of St Andrews in Scotland.
In 2017, he became a member of the Scientific Council of La Fémis.
He co-organizes several film events. He is the creator and animator of the
association Exception, a film reflection group in which Olivier Assayas,
Claire Denis, Emmanuel Ethis and others participate...
He has published some twenty books, including : La Projection nationale,
Hou Hsiao-hsien, Horizon cinéma, Le Monde de Jia Zhang-ke, Crisnée,
Yellow Now, Treize Ozu...
Jean Michel Frodon
