Session chaired by : Jean-Michel Frodon, critic and lecturer at Sciences Po
Jean-Michel Frodon is a journalist, film critic, writer and teacher. He first wrote for the weekly Le Point (1983-1990), then for the daily Le Monde (1990-2003), where he became head of the cinema section in 1995. He was editorial director of Cahiers du cinéma (2003-2009). Today, he is a journalist and film critic on the slate.fr news website and on the Projection publique blog. He is a member of the editorial board and contributor to the Spanish magazine Caiman, Cuadernos de Cine, the Korean magazine Filo, the American magazine Cineaste, and the Balkan website Camera lucida.
Founder of the think-tank L'Exception http://lexception .rezo.net/, former editor-in-chief of the collaborative website http://artsciencefactory.fr, Jean-Michel Frodon is an associate professor at Sciences Po Paris, and a member of the teaching committee of SPEAP (Master d'enseignement des arts politiques) alongside Bruno Latour. As a teacher, he is also a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Film Studies and Creative Industries at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), and a lecturer at the Film Factory, a school founded by Bela Tarr in Sarajevo. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of La Fémis and of the host team for the SACRe program.
He organizes programs and meetings in numerous institutions, festivals and educational venues, and regularly collaborates with the French Institute to promote cinema around the world. In 2014-15, he was vice-president of the "Cinémas du Monde" commission co-organized by the CNC and the Institut français. He has curated several exhibitions and programs, notably at the Centre Pompidou and the Cinémathèque française.
