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The Second Annual French Festival
Presented by The French Studies Program
in collaboration with
Cornell Cinema and The Society for the Humanities
at Cornell University
FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CINEMATIC FUTURES
A conference of film screenings and analyses
November 5-7, 1998
Thursday, November 5
4:30 p.m. Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Welcoming Remarks, Timothy Murray (Cornell
University)
Plenary Speaker, Raymond Bellour (CNRS, Paris)
"Memories, `Immemory'"
9:30 p.m. Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight Theatre
Screening, Merzak Allouache, Salut Cousin!
(France, Algeria, Belgium,
Luxembourg, 1996)
Friday, November 6 All events will be held at Cornell Cinema,
Willard Straight Theatre
9:00 a.m. Moderator, Nelly Furman (Cornell University)
Réda Bensmaïa (Brown University)
"Salut Cousin! or the New Figures of Nomadism"
10:30 a.m. Screening, Zaïda Ghorab-Volta, Souviens-toi de
moi? (France, 1996)
1:15 p.m Moderator, Amy Villarejo (Cornell University)
Dominique Blüher, University of Paris X,
Nanterre
"Souviens-toi de moi? A Hip-Hop Film?"
3:00 p.m. Screening, Chantal Akerman, Portrait d'une jeune
fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (France, 1994)
4:00 p.m. Moderator, Marie-Claire Vallois (Cornell
University)
Judith Mayne, Ohio State University
"Girl Talk: Chantal Akerman's Portrait d'une
jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles"
7:30 p.m. Screening, Dani Kouyate, Keita! L'heritage du
griot (France/Burkina Faso, 1994)
Saturday, November 7
All events will take place at Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight
Theatre
Moderator, Margaret Morse (University of
California, Santa Cruz)
9:00 a.m. Presentation of French Digital Art
Timothy Murray (Cornell University)
Anne-Marie Duguet, University of Paris I,
Sorbonne
9:45 a.m. Anne-Marie Duguet, University of Paris I,
Sorbonne
"Performing the Projected Image"
11:15 a.m. Moderator, Donald Fredericksen (Cornell
University)
Dudley Andrew (University of Iowa)
"From Mouth to Ear: Rumors of West African Film"
2:00 p.m Screening, Chris Marker, Level 5
4:00 p.m. Moderator, Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College)
Maureen Turim (University of Florida)
"Virtual Discourses of History: Collage,
Narrative, or Documents"
4:45 p.m. Panel Discussion of Marker and Digital Futures
Raymond Bellour, Yukiko Hanawa, Timothy Murray,
Maureen Turim, and Ueno Toshiya (Joint session with "Empire of Readers:
Book, Image, and Mass Subjectivity in Modern Japan" Conference)
Special funding from The James B. Pendelton Endowment of the Roy
H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College
Co-sponsored by: The East Asia Program, The Mario Einaudi
Center for International Studies; The Graduate Program in Film and Video
Studies; LBG Studies, The Women's Studies Program, The Audiovisual
Department of the French Embassy, New York
Conference admission free, with the exception of evening
screenings at Cornell Cinema. Non-Cornell colleagues and students most
welcome.
Housing Information in Ithaca: www.ithaca.ny.us/Commerce/lodging.html
For other information, please contact:
The Society for the Humanities
A. D. White House
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
tel: 607-255-4086
e-mail: mea4@cornell.edu
Timothy Murray
Professor of English and Acting Director of The Society for the
Humanities
Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video
A. D. White House
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
office: 607-255-4086
e-mail: tcm1@cornell.edu
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