Cécile Fontaine

Born in 1957 in the south of France, she grew up in an overseas French “department,” Île de la Réunion, in the Indian Ocean; she studied art in both France (1975-1979) and Boston (1980-1986), where she began making films in 1982 after taking an evening film course at the Massachusetts College of Art and then enrolling full-time at the School of Museum of Fine Arts, majoring in film. She returned to France in 1986 and has lived in Paris ever since, where she teaches art full time at an elementary school and makes films.

Philippe-Alain Michaud

He is curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, in charge of the museum’s film collection. He teaches film history and theory at the Université de Genève. He is the author of Aby Warburg et l’image en mouvement (Macula, 1998), Le peuple des images (Desclée de Brouwer, 2004), Sur le Film (Macula, 2016), Primitive souls. Celluloid, plush and paper figures. (Quodlibet, 2023). He has written several articles on the relationship between cinema and the visual arts. He has been curator of several exhibitions, including Comme le rêve le dessin (Musée du Louvre/Centre Pompidou, 2004), Le mouvement des images (Centre Pompidou, 2006), Nuits électriques (Musée, de la photographie, Moscou et Laboral (Gijon, Spain) 2007, Tapis volants (Villa Medici, Rome et Les Abattoirs, Toulouse) 2010, Beat Generation (Centre Pompidou, 2016), L’œil extatique : Sergueï Eisenstein à la croisée des arts (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2019), Le reste est ombre(Centre Pompidou, 2022).