Hervé Joubert-Laurencin is a professor of Film Studies in the Arts Faculty at the University of Amiens. He is also a translator and specialist in Pier Paolo Pasolini, about whom he has organised several congresses. Other specialisations include animation film and the film writings of André Bazin. Among other works, he has published Pasolini, portrait du poète en cinéaste (Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 1995), Le Dernier poète expressionniste. Écrits sur Pasolini (Besançon: Les Solitaires Intempestifs, 2005) and La Lettre volante. Quatre essais sur le cinéma d’animation (Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1997). Opening Bazin, a significant collaborative book – the result of a Franco-American encounter on André Bazin which he organised in conjunction with Dudley Andrew – will be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press.

Hervé Joubert-Laurencin was invited by the MACBA in November 2009, as part of the seminar Fernand Deligny: Permit, Draw, See, where he delivered the conference which we are publishing in this edition of Quadern Portàtil: “Camérer, découper, déparalyser ou Le cinéma comme acte de la contingence.”