Conference Schedule

Thursday, May 22

Deutsches Filmmuseum und Filminstitut

Schaumainkai 41

60596 Frankfurt am Main

7:00pm-8:00pm:

Conference reception

8:00pm-10:00pm:

Screening

Le Chemin d’Ernoa (Louis Delluc, 1921, 50min)

Fièvre (Louis Delluc, 1921, 44min)

Introduction by Daniel Fairfax (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Friday, May 23

Room EG.01

Normative Orders Building

Westend Campus, Max-Horkheimer-Straße 2

9:30-9:40:

Conference Welcome

Daniel Fairfax (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

9:40-11:20:

Session 1

Speakers:

Jennifer Wild (University of Southern California)

“Louis Delluc and the Languages of Perception”

Marie Rebecchi (Université d’Aix-Marseille)

“On Photogenie. Delluc, Epstein and the essence of the visible”

11:50-13:30:

Session 2

Speakers:

Guido Kirsten (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)

“Louis Delluc and the Art of Scriptwriting and Découpage

Melissa Gignac (Université de Lille)

“The Metteur en Scène as ‘Film Composer’ in France and the United States”

14:30-15:00:

Screening:
La fête espagnole (Germaine Dulac, 1920, 25min, partially restored)

15:00-16:40:

Session 3

Speakers

Sarah Keller (University of Massachusetts Boston)

“At Every Turn, Another Angle”

Tami Williams (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

“Delluc, Dulac, and La fête espagnole (1920): A Short History of a Long Cinematic Impressionism”

17:10-18:00:

Session 4

Speaker:

Viva Paci (Université de Quebec à Montréal)

“Animals on Camera in Louis Delluc’s Writings (Between Alienation and Atmosphere)”


Saturday, May 24

Room EG.01

Normative Orders Building

Westend Campus, Max-Horkheimer-Straße 2

9:40-11:20:

Session 5

Speakers:

Daniel Fairfax (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

“The Style of Film Criticism: Delluc’s Writings on Cinema”

Laurent Guido (Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle)

“Synchronising Bodies and Images: Rhythm, Dance and Musicality in Louis Delluc”

11:50-13:30:

Session 6

Speakers:

Trond Lundemo (University of Stockholm)

“An Industrial Art or Individual Expression? Ambivalences in Delluc’s Film Criticism”

Benoît Turquety (Université Paris VIII-Vincennes St. Denis)

“‘Black Velvet’: Photogénie as Negative Technology”

14:30-16:10:

Session 7

Speakers:

Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

“Three Chaplins: Delluc, Bazin, Narboni”

Sam di Iorio (Hunter College CUNY)

Delluc Against the Historicists: Reading the Past in Midcentury French Film Culture

16:40-18:00:

Session 8

Speaker:

Paula Amad (University of Iowa)

“‘Truth is Not on the Earth’: Reconsidering Louis Delluc and the Origins of Cinephilia through Aerophilia”

Closing Remarks