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Critical thinking encounters

As well as welcoming individual residents, CÉCI organises professional encounters and symposia around leading authors and writing workshops on short or full length film scripts...

Critical thinking exercise

Originating from the critical thinking encounters created by Jean Breschand at the Moulin d’Andé in 1999, this new series of critical thinking is in keeping with the current ideas expressed in the review “Vertigo”, extending the ideas expressed there to writing; a new field of exploration which should show that cinema is today, even more than yesterday, one of the most fertile areas in which to gaze out at the world.

The art of cinema brings us back to the world, if it is true that other arts have distanced us from it. During the course of its history it has forced and still forces us to take the world into consideration”, explained Eric Rohmer in 1962. It is a matter of a non-exclusive, broader way of looking at cinema, by opening it up to fields and methods of thinking from social sciences and their approach to contemporary images. This approach should allow the true character of cinema to be reaffirmed.

Preface by Christian Delage.

Publications in the Critical Thinking Exercise Collection

1. “Ecriture critique, état de veille”
   (Critical writing, in a waking state), published August 2004



2. “Le paradoxe du personage”
   (The paradox of the important person), published August 2004



3. “De l’ellipse à la syncope”
   (From the ellipsis to the syncope), published March 2005



4. “Tendre l’oreille, ouvrir l’oeil”
   (Prick up your ears, open your eyes), published March 2005

To order any of the above