Image and Movement: Film Studies and Art History
Friday, March 13, 2009 - March 14, 2009
This symposium brought together scholars of film, art, and culture to discuss the relationships between film and art, and between film studies and art history.
Participants included: Yves Abrioux, University of Paris VIII, France; Dudley Andrew, Yale University; Nell Andrew, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia; Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK; Angela Dalle Vacche, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Susan Felleman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Mark Haxthausen, Williams College; Kenneth J. Knoespel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mark Ledbury, The Clark; Martin Lefebvre, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University; Trond Lundemo, Stockholm University, Sweden; John MacKay, Yale University; Nancy Mowll Mathews, Williams College Museum of Art; Lynda Nead, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK; Lara Pucci, The University of Manchester, UK; Sally Shafto, independent scholar and translator, France; Noa Steimatsky, University of Chicago; Richard Suchenski, Yale University; Jeremi Szaniawski, Yale University
PROGRAM:
Film Screenings
Russian Ark (2002, 96 minutes, in Russian with English subtitles)
Introduction by Jeremi Szaniawski
Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet (1989, 52 minutes, in French) and Une visite au Louvre (2004, 49 minutes, in French) directors Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
Introduction by Richard Suchenski
Session 1: Early Encounters of Art and Film
Moderator: Nancy Mowll Mathews
The Artist’s Studio: The Battle of Art and Film
Lynda Nead
A Moving Picture in Early Abstract Art
Nell Andrew
Session 2: Soviet Film Theory and Art History
Moderator: Mark Haxthausen
Vertov and the Line
John MacKay
Art History as a Reserve for Montage in Eisenstein’s Writings and Films
Trond Lundemo
Keynote Address
To the Art Film and Beyond: The Future Study of Cinema and Art History
Susan Felleman
Session 3: Andre Bazin’s Film Theory and Art History
Moderator: Mark Ledbury
Andre Bazin and the System of the Arts
Angela Dalle Vacche
Vertical Sections of Voluminous Time: Bazin and Malraux on Films of Art
Dudley Andrew
Session 4: The Face
Moderator: Mark Ledbury
Of the Face: In Reticence
Noa Steimatsky
Bergman in the Museum?
Thomas Elsaesser
Session 5: Landscape
Moderator: Yves Abrioux
Investigating the Film Landscape
Martin Lefebvre
Remapping the Rural: Ideology and Iconography in Fascist Italy
Lara Pucci
Session Six: The Museum Film
Moderator: Kenneth J. Knoespel
Artistic Encounters: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet and Cézanne
Sally Shafto
A Disturbing Presence? Scenes from the History of Film in the Museum
Ian Christie
* The symposium was supported by a generous grant from the Robert Lehman Foundation.
