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Design of the Mind
Cold War spy films bear witness to a polarity between overt technophilia and a critique of technology’s hold on the human mind. In this text, which prefigures an exhibition that Alexandra Midal is preparing on this analysis of a section of post-war cinema…
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Talking Heads – La voix dans tous ses éclats
With Véronique Auguereau, Philippe Peythieu, Olivier Lebrun, Marge & Homer Simpson
Actress Véronique Augereau and actor Philippe Peythieu are the voices behind the French Marge and Homer Simpson. For this Talking Head, Augereau and Peythieu sit down with graphic designer Olivier Lebrun, author of the cult book A Pocket Companion…
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Film Montage and its Effects
Montage is one of the privileged instruments of cinema for directing the attention and emotions of the spectators. Alfred Hitchcock, who defined himself as a director of spectators before being a director of actors, agreed with this. This series of…
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Head to Head II – Alexandra Midal
In this portrait, which takes the form of an interview, Julie Enckell Julliard seeks to grasp the originality and radicality of Alexandra Midal’s thinking, which enlarges the field of design theory by tackling unusual topics such as the links between…
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Alexandra Midal – Conclusion
As soon as the colloquium is over, Alexandra Midal undertakes the flashback exercise. Her synthetic and personal re-reading unravels the spool of time and narratives, proceeding in between myth, animism and apocalypse but also speculation,…