ACEC Besson

Conférence de l’ACÈC

Rémy Besson, Toronto, 29 mai 2017

TECHNÈS

• 2015

- 2022 Financement de $2,5 M CAD granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

• Rethink • Study

film history and its methods

the techniques and technologies which accompanied the medium’s mutations

• Create

a digital Encyclopedia of Film Techniques and Technologies

24 RESEARCHERS

26 COLLABORATORS

18 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

• Laboratoire Arts : pratiques et poétiques (Université Rennes 2)# • Cinémathèque française# • La Fémis#

• Groupe Dispositifs (Université de Lausanne)# • Cinémathèque suisse# • École cantonale d’art de Lausanne# • GRAFICS (Université de Montréal)#

• George Eastman Museum# • International Federation of Film Archives#

• Amsterdam University Press#

• Cinémathèque québécoise# • Institut national de l’image et du son# • Canal Savoir# • Bibliothèque des archives nationales du Québec# • National Film Board of Canada# • Presses de l’Université de Montréal# • Érudit# • Idéeclic#

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Past activity

Douglas Trumbull

Journey to the Center of Film Machine

th Cinémathèque française, November 30 rd December 3 2016

David Kenig

Lenny Lipton

Walter Murch

CONFERENCE

Coming soon

Cinema in the Eye of the Collector

th th Cinémathèque québécoise, June 4 - 8 2017

EDUCATIONAL TV SERIES

Connaissance du cinéma, Canal Savoir

Filmed at the Cinémathèque québécoise with Guy Fournier and Julie De Lorimier, projectionists

DIGITAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

• Essays

• 3D

representations of artifacts

• 2D

representations of artifacts

• Archival

documents

“The Williamson Camera and Tripod”, in Talbot, F.A.A. (1913).

Practical cinematography and its applications. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, p. 25.

George Eastman Museum, March 2017

DATABASE

DATABASE

DATABASE

George Eastman Museum, March 2017

3D SCANNING OF CINEMA ARTIFACTS

FILMED INTERVIEWS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

Making-of Kyma with filmmaker Philippe Baylaucq

at the National Film Board of Canada

Demonstration of the Pathé Webo Rio camera

FILMED DEMONSTRATIONS

Demonstration of a Rhytmo band machine

DATABASE

Mock-up by Idéeclic

24 RESEARCHERS

DATABASE

DATABASE AND NARRATIVE?

Thanks to Isabelle L’Heureux for her help with the documentary research

DATABASE AND NARRATIVE?

The key term that now represents the facilitation of digital media in online environments is convergence and the range of activities associated with these environments are grouped under the term of convergence culture (Jenkins, 2006).

Thanks to Isabelle L’Heureux for her help with the documentary research

DATABASE AND NARRATIVE?

As a cultural form, the database represents the world as a list of items, and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause and effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are cultural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world. (Manovich, 2001: 225)

Thanks to Isabelle L’Heureux for her help with the documentary research

DATABASE AND NARRATIVE?

New media, as modes of nonlinear storytelling and communication, help us see that in a much broader cognitive and ideological sense, narrative is also a means of patterning and interpreting the meaning of all sensory input and ‘object of knowledge’ . . . For narratives map the world and its inhabitants and locate us within that textual landscape and seascape, requiring a constant refiguring of our mental cartography with its supporting databases, search engines and representational conventions. (Kinder, 2003: 97)

Thanks to Isabelle L’Heureux for her help with the documentary research

DATABASE AND NARRATIVE?

Database Documentary is a relatively new form of documentary storytelling that uses the combined elements of digital media and on-line platforms. Traditionally, the kind of documentary production linked to Database Documentary is built on a research practice in which access to an archive or other sources of knowledge and information is key. Archives are normally collections of texts, images, letters, and objects, usually in support of an individual's work or legacy or that of a social or public institution. (‌) In this regard, the role of a Database Documentary producer is closer to a curator or designer (Cohen, 2012).

Thanks to Isabelle L’Heureux for her help with the documentary research

DATABASE AND NARRATIVE?

We are coming to recognize, then, gradually but inevitably, that database is a new genre, the genre of the twenty-first century. Its development may turn out to be the most significant effect computer culture will have on the literary world (Folson,2007).

Thanks to Isabelle L’Heureux for her help with the documentary research

DATABASE AND NARRATIVE?

DATABASE AND NARRATIVE?