Presenters:
Jean-Louis Comolli (by video)
Thomas Elsaesser
Philip Rosen
Jane Gaines
Francesco Casetti
Dudley Andrew
and many more
Conference Schedule
Thursday, November 28
2:00pm-2:15pm Conference Welcome
Daniel Fairfax (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) and Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
2:15pm-4:00pm Session 1: Cinema and Spectacle
Video presentation: Jean-Louis Comolli, “‘Cinema/Ideology/Criticism’: Yesterday and Today”
Keynote address: Thomas Elsaesser (Columbia University), “Spectacle: Making the Visible Invisible”
4:30pm-6:00pm Screening
À voir absolument (si possible): Dix années aux Cahiers du cinéma 1963-1973 (dir. Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, 2011, 80min)
Friday, November 29
9:30am-12:30pm Session 2: History and Ideology
Moderator: Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Panellists: Marco Grosoli (Habib University), “The Unaccomplished Divorce. Comolli's writings in the first half of the 1960s” Sam Di Iorio (Hunter College, CUNY), “Detour #2: Jazz Direct & Indirect” Elif Sendur (SUNY Binghamton), “Neither Singular nor Collective: Cahiers du Cinéma’s Experimentation with Young Mr. Lincoln”
1:30pm-4:30pm Session 3: Theory and Textuality
Moderator: Sonia Campanini (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Panellists: Daniel Fairfax (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), “The Insights and the Oversights: ‘Cinema/Ideology/Criticism’ viewed from 2019” Philip Rosen (Brown University), “Textual Disruption and Film Theory, Then and Now” Jane Gaines (Columbia University), “If Reality is Nothing More Than the Prevailing Ideology”
5:00pm-7:00pm Session 4: Language and Ontology
Moderator: Rembert Hüser (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Panellists: Pierre Eugène (Université de Paris-Nanterre), “Serge Daney from 1968 to 1972: In and Out of Cahiers du cinéma” Dudley Andrew (Yale University), “The Persistence of Rohmer at Cahiers du cinema, 1968-1972”
7:00pm-8:00pm Screening
Une partie de campagne: Les Cahiers du cinéma face au film (dir. Bernard Eisenschitz, 1969, 52min).
Saturday, November 30
9:30am-12:30pm Session 5: Critique and Practice
Moderator: Daniel Fairfax (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Panellists: Volker Pantenburg (Freie Universität Berlin), “Repercussions of a Debate: Cahiers vs. Cinéthique in Filmkritik” Christa Blümlinger (Université Paris-VIII), “Critical Activity as Utopia” Sulgi Lie (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), "Political Modernism or Late Modernism? Film Criticism, Jameson and Aesthetic Historicity".
1:30pm-3:30pm Session 6: Cinephilia and the Apparatus
Moderator: Philipp Dominik Keidl (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Panellists: Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), “The Repentant Cinephile: On Film Criticism as Self-Criticism” Francesco Casetti (Yale University), “Lost in the Apparatus: The Last Revival of the Fear of Cinema”