OnMay1 1974, the " 14 Juillet Bastille " opened its doors, the first cinema launched by MK2, the company founded by Marin Karmitz in 1967. To mark the fifty anniversary of this event, which marked the development of one of the major adventures in French cinema, Marin Karmitz decided to make his personal archives and those of his companies available for research.
This has led to a series of meetings and an international symposium in partnership with two academic institutions, the École Normale Supérieure and the Collège de France, under the umbrella of PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres), with which MK2 and the Institut MK2 have joined forces for the occasion.
This collective approach brought together some twenty researchers, who were able to work over two years on many aspects of Marin Karmitz's work : his origins, his training, his commitments, his films, his cinemas, but also the works produced, distributed and exhibited by MK2.
In addition, some thirty witnesses, critics, artists, filmmakers, intellectuals and academics wanted to take up and confront some of the questions posed in the films studied, in particular the most urgent : Will cinema disappear ? And how can it continue ?
The debate part of the meetings will take place at the Collège de France, on October16 2024, while the research part of the symposium will be held at the École normale supérieure, onOctober 17 and 18 2024. In the evening, onOctober 15 and 17 2024, in the Salle Dussane at the ENS, film screenings will provide the indispensable cinephile supplement.
Program forWednesdayOctober16 at Collège de France
9h30
Presentation, Antoine de Baecque, Patrick Boucheron
9:45am-10:45am
Screening of Chambre 666, by Wim Wenders (1982)
11am-1pm
Will cinema disappear ?
Interventions :
- Claire Simon :cinema with bare hands
- Marie-José Mondzain :life and death of cinema, dialogue with ChatGPT
- Marc Cerisuelo :the historicity of cinema
- Hervé Joubert-Laurencin : what is the death of cinema?
- Dork Zabunyan :the natural death or murder of cinema ?
- Raphaël Martin-Dumazer the end of argentic cinema ?
- Frédéric Sojcher the ephemerality of cinema
Round-table discussion with Romain Goupil, Mathieu Macheret, Serge Kaganski, Frédéric Bonnaud, Pierre Eugène, David Faroult, Elodie Tamayo, Fernando Ganzo.
Lunch break
2:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Continuing cinema... What do we have to conquer ? What do we have to give up ?
Speakers :
- Alice Diop : Continue
- Isild Le Besco :telling the truth
- Sandra Laugier :Spectator skills
- Olivia Rosenthal :The shipwreck, and after ?
- Jean-Claude Monod all the stories that haven't been told
- Laurent Roth filming with time to spare
- Olivia Cooper Hadjian thwarting mass imagery
- Antonio Somaini :AI-proofing cinema
- Nicolas Klotz the seed of rebirth
Round-table discussion with Charlotte Garson, Monia Chokri, Clément Cogitore, Hélène Frappat, Murielle Joudet, Sandra Onana, Térésa Faucon, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Elisha Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux.
5pm - 6:30pm
Screening of Chambre 999, by and in the presence of Lubna Playoust (2°23)
