Claudine Eizykman
Biography
As a filmmaker she has made a dozen films (Selection Committee Prize at the Knokke-Le-Zoute Festival in 1974-75), videos and - in collaboration with Guy Fihman a dozen holographic films and devices to record and present them. Since 1969 she has published numerous studies on narrative cinema ("La Jouissance Cinéma", 1976, ed. 10/18), video art, experimental and avant-garde film, notably on the Vasulkas, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol... From 1993 to late 1995, she programmed films for the French Cinémathèque in a regular slot called Cabinet d'Amateur. Since late 1998, she has programmed experimental and avant-garde films for the Forum des Images in Paris. She was a co-founder of the Paris Film Coop in 1974, publisher of the magazine Melba (1976-79), co-founded Cinédoc, of which she is president and since 1979, has taught as a professor at the Université Paris 8 de Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • as Self
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Herself
Covers the making of the multicolored magazine for technological arts, Melba, edited by Claudine Eizykman and in which Guy Fihman, Dominique Willoughby, among others, were active participants, with 5 issues published between 1976 and 1979.