In 1959, Alain Resnais compared the Hiroshima bomb to failed relationships.
In 2010, Americans and Japanese have agreed to work together on the «Hiroshima Reconstruction Project», supervised by Eric Hanson (xRez Studio), to create a virtual model of what Hiroshima was like before 1945.
In «Soleil de la Conscience», Edouard Glissant, when visiting Paris from La Martinique, contrasts the gaze of «the Son» (le Fils) and the vision of «the Stranger» (l’Étranger).
Où va le cinéma ?
Archive en ligne de rencontres et débats qui ont eu lieu en 2008
au centre Pompidou à Paris.
Bolex Digital
Resurrection of the Bolex camera, with the first digital model.
First MOOC on The Holocaust of European Jews by two History professors of UC Santa Cruz (Jewish studies).
Slow Attitude
The Swiss have the reputation for being very slow : «chi va piano, va sano e va lontano».
Slow food, slow dance, slow stories, slow change : slow attitude.
Terrain vague
Terrain vague is a new collective of young filmmakers based in Lausanne.
Towards a scientific architecture
Nicholas Negroponte‘s SEEK exhibition on information technologies and the arts, at the Jewish Museum of New York City in 1970, became a milestone in the history of electronic arts.
Swiss contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn is building a temporary public monument in the Bronx dedicated to the memory of Italian marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who developed the concept of cultural hegemony.
RIP Harris Savides
Rétrospective au MOMA d’un des plus grands chefs opérateurs américains mort à l’âge de 55 ans.