Criticism and Research Workshop

Associate professor at the New Sorbonne University since 2011. Film critic and programmer. A significant part of her current research focuses on the connections between film and animism, eco-criticism and the vegetable life forms in visual culture. Aside from these issues, she works on eco-feminism and feminist historiographies. Member of the advisory board at the international documentary film seminar Doc’s Kingdom.

Programmer, commissioner and cultural worker who explores the relations between contemporary art and moving image. He is an audio-visual curator in the fields of film essay, political documentary film, experimental film and authorial film at the Museum Reina Sofía, where he is responsible for the film and video programming since 2012 as head of the cultural and audio-visual activities.

by Mariana Souza
Brazil

Based on current artistic productions, I investigate to what extent the images produced by historical subjects marked by the processes of diaspora and non-white raciality are opening the ballasts of colonial fiction created by Western thought.

Desconfiar de las imágenes: memoria y archivo en el cine documental contemporáneo
latinoamericano, by Karina Solórzano
Mexico

Distrusting images is an idea taken from Harun Farocki that refers to how their use produces meanings, which eventually make up a certain ideology. My research will study how certain contemporary Latin American films reflect different dimensions of memory.

Visiones de Anáhuac. Periplos mexicanos en el cine de vanguardia, by Salvador Amores
Mexico

From Eisenstein’s attractions to the surrealism of Breton and Buñuel, the land and life of Mexico have aroused the affinities of many avant-garde artists. Film has not been the exception: there it discovered an exotic environment and a space for formal inquiries.