EVENTS
Jacques Perconte: Digital Landscapes: 10/11 June 2022
This two-day programme presents the work of Jacques Perconte, a visual artist and a major figure in the French digital art and avant-garde-scene.
Experimental Self-Portraits in the LUX collection: 28 January 2017, Birkbeck University, London.
Presentation of a selection of experimental self-portrait films drawn from the LUX collection. After the screening, Muriel Tinel-Temple was in conversation with LUX deputy director Maria Palacios Cruz.
Filmmaker at Work: Self-Portraits: SCRATCH PROJECTION 12 April 2016, Studio des Ursulines, Paris.
To coincide with the publication of her book FILMMAKER AT WORK: SELF-PORTRAITS (Hermann publisher), the author will present a selection of films that explore the different facets of the self-portrait.
Magic Mirror: restaging the Self-Portrait’: 16 October 2015, Birkbeck University, London.
Sarah Pucill and Laura Mulvey in conversation on:
Magic Mirror, Sarah Pucill, UK, 2013, 75 min. and Cindy the Doll Is Mine, Bertrand Bonello, France, 2005, 15 min.
The Self-Representation in Visual Culture research group presents a double-bill of films that experiment with the re-staging of self-portraits as a form of mise en abyme.
‘The Notebook films’ screening and presentation: 16 January 2015, Birkbeck University, London.
In preparation for the inaugural Essay Film Festival 2015 (BIMI, Birkbeck College London), this was a session that featured several examples of “notebook” films:
The Self-Portrait in the Moving Image’: two-day conference 28/02-1/03 2014, Birkbeck University, London.
This conference proposed to reassess the practice of self-portraiture in the moving image by showcasing and discussing a broad variety of films. It was an opportunity to discover some rarely screened experimental films from the Lightcone collection (Paris), which were projected in 16mm and Super 8.
