A transnational history of film schools in the 20th Century – Season 2 ! 2025-2026
We are very pleased to inform you that our international online seminar « A transnational history of film schools in the 20th century » will start again on next Wednesday 12th November 2025 at 4 pm Paris time, at this link .
We will have the pleasure to listen to Klara Trskova (Film curator at the National Film Archive of Prague), who will give a talk entitled « Fading histories: Latin American Students and their FAMU Experience ».
This online seminar aims to bring together researchers from different countries working on film schools in the 20th century from a historical and transnational perspective. The following themes will be addressed: the circulation of political ideas, artistic practices and the creation of transnational professional networks. The focus will be on the social actors – teachers, administrative staff and students – and their productions (student films).
The seminar will continue then on :
–December 10 2025, Claire Demoulin (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier) : « Max Reinhardt’s Film Schools in a Transatlantic Context: From the Vienna Schauspiel- und Regieseminar to the Hollywood Workshop for Stage, Screen and Radio »
–January 21 2026 – upcoming program
–February 18 2026, Cassandra Boldor (Universidad de la República Uruguay – UdelaR) : « En Praga (1964): the documentarist Mario Handler between Montevideo and FAMU. »
–March 18 2026, Pascaline Morincôme (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne) : « “Everything must change”: alternative Film Schools in United Sates and in Europe (1970-1990) »
-On April 18 2026, we will finally hold a prospective session, where everyone is welcome to discuss the conclusions of our seminar, what is to be done next, what field, countries and schools still need to be investigated upon, what current researches are being led but not yet finished, etc.
Call (still open for 2025-2026) : https://calenda.org/1226324
Contacts
m.pierre.bouthier@u-picardie.fr (write there to be added to the mailing list!)
gabrielle.chomentowski@univ-paris1.fr
perrine.val@univ-montp3.fr
To know more about the speakers’ research
Chomentowski Gabrielle, « Caméra au poing et valise à la main : les mobilités étudiantes du sud vers les écoles de cinéma de l’Est socialiste », in Cahiers du monde russe, 63/3-4, 2022, p. 619-646,
Chomentowski Gabrielle, « Décolonisations et cinéma. Les étudiants africains en cinéma à Paris et Moscou (années 1940-1960) », in Diasporas, n°37, 2022, p. 41-60,
Chomentowski Gabrielle, “Filmmakers from Africa and Middle East trained at VGIK during the Cold War”, in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, vol 13, issue 3, 2019, pp. 189-198,
García López Sonia, Caza de brujas en las aulas: La censura española en la Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía. Studies in Spanish & Latin-American Cinemas, 2022, 19 (1), 91
García López, Sonia, Miradas invisibles: mujeres en la Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía (1947–1976), Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2021, 22(3), 311–329.
Lowe Birghid, Together with Lorenza Mazzetti, 2023, Documentary,
Miller Henry K., The Slade School and Cinema: Part Two, Vertigo, vol.3, no.5, 2007
Miller Henry K., Film studies before film studies: Derek Jarman at the Slade, Screen, Volume 57, Issue 3, Autumn 2016, Pages 371–378
Miller Henry K., ‘Peter Whitehead: The Slade Years’, Framework, vol. 52, no. 1 (2011)
Navitsky Rielle, The Cine Club de Colombia and Postwar Cinephilia in Latin America: Forging Transnational Networks, Schooling Local Audiences, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2018, 38(4), 808–827.
Navitsky Rielle, Transatlantic Cinephilia, Film culture between Latin America and France, 1945-1965, University of California Press, 2023
Pierre-Bouthier Marie , “A founding transnational experience for the pioneers of Moroccan national cinema: studying in Łódz film school in the 1960s-70s”, in The Journal of North African Studies, 2022. En ligne :
Pierre-Bouthier Marie, “The transnational trajectories of Moroccan filmmakers: Film training between socialist Poland and postcolonial France in the 1960s and 1970s”, in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2021, pp. 355-376 :
Val Perrine, « Entre romantisme exotique et paternalisme socialiste : l’Afrique et le monde arabe vus par le cinéma est-allemand », in Emmanuel Droit, Anne Kwaschik, Silke Mende (dir.), France, Allemagne, Afrique : représentations, transferts, relations, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024, 197-209.