Name Jean-Louis Comolli | Role Writer | |
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Born 30 July 1941 ( 1941-07-30 ) Philippeville, Algeria Occupation film critic, director, screenwriter Books Free jazz black power, Free jazz/black power, Free jazz, black power Movies L'ombre rouge, The Carabineers, Plein sud, Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue, Winter 1960, Petition Nominations Cesar Award for Best Short Film - Fiction Similar People Jean Narboni, Jean‑Andre Fieschi, Jean‑Luc Godard, Raoul Coutard, Luc Beraud | ||
Interview de jean louis comolli
Jean-Louis Comolli (born 30 July 1941) is a French writer, editor, and film director. He was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1966 to 1978, during which period he wrote the influential essays "Machines of the Visible" (1971) and "Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field" (1971-2), both of which have been translated in English anthologies of film and media studies. This work was important in the discussion on apparatus theory, an attempt to rethink cinema as a site for the production and maintenance of dominant state ideology in the wake of May 1968.
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- Interview de jean louis comolli
- Naissance d un h pital de jean louis comolli
- Select Filmography
- References
After his tenure at Cahiers, Comolli continued his work as a director and has since published numerous works on film theory, documentary, and jazz. He currently teaches film theory at the Universities of Paris VIII, Barcelona, Strasburg and Genève.
In the spring of 2008, Comolli was invited to the Visions du réel documentary film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, where he developed his theory of documentary cinema.