To accompany the release of this book, Érik Bullot offers an illustrated lecture on the hypothesis of a performative becoming of cinema. Can we make a film with words? Is cinema doubled by translation games or transcoding? This session will be the occasion to evoke, through theoretical fragments and extracts of films, the performative categories of paper film, script film and film conference by reversing the usual relations between film and speech. Excerpts from films by Peter Rose, Jean Eustache, Marguerite Duras and Filipa César will be presented as well as Traité optique (Érik Bullot, 2017). The public will be invited to discuss it with him.

Érik Bullot is a filmmaker and theorist. He is the author of about thirty films, halfway between the film of an artist and experimental cinema. His work has been presented in numerous festivals and museums, in France and abroad. He recently released Sortir du cinéma (Mamco, 2013), Renversements 2 (Paris Experimental, 2013) and Le film et son double (Mamco, 2017). He teaches cinema at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art in Bourges.

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