Séminaire ACV – “Thresholds of Vision. On Operative Images and Film Corporealities – Martine Beugnet, UPC ECHELLES

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.