Clandestine images Meeting in Toulouse

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

Ophir Levy teaches the history and aesthetics of cinema at the Université 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 23 November 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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