Martine Beugnet : “Thresholds of Vision. On Operative Images and Film Corporealities” (voir résumé ci-dessous). Séance en lien le Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University at Buffalo.
Résumé :
Once confined to specific fields of expertise (sciences, medicine, surveillance, the military) operational images have started to
populate our screens. In relation to the human body in particular (still the conventional measure and reference in film), there is no denying the capacity of operational images to question and renew cinematic forms. In this paper Beugnet explores the ways in which operational images extend the boundaries of film aesthetics while troubling, in fundamental ways, the relation between the visible and the legible. Of particular interest will be Eléonore Weber’s, Il n’y aura plus de nuit, 2020, and Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 2022, two films where operational imaging is prevalent, but comes from specific areas of activity resulting in distinctive visual productions and cultures: the military and the medical.