Clandestine images Meeting in Toulouse

Since the 1960s-1970s, the confused memory of the concentration camps and of genocide of the Jews has gradually become omnipresent, to the point of engendering an authentic imagination of the camps " whose motives resurface in films that have no connection with the World War II.
These clandestine images appear according to three main modalities – imagery, persistence and afterlife – which affect both Hollywood science fiction cinema (Fleischer, Spielberg), television series or zombie films as well as the so-called European 'art house' cinema (Godard, Bergman, Resnais, Akerman, Duras).
Thus, what images are woven under the images? What mysterious circuit do they sometimes take in order to reach us? And above all, of which obsessions and which discourses are our contemporary images the vehicles?

Ophir Levy teaches history and aesthetics of cinema at the University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle. Doctor in the history of cinema (Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne), his work on "clandestine images" was awarded the 2014 Research Prize by the Inathèque.

This meeting will be followed on November 23 by the screening at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse of the film I love you, I love you by Alain Resnais. (Introduction by Ophir Lévy)

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