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François Bovier
François Bovier is a senior lecturer in the Film Studies Department at the University of Lausanne and a research fellow at Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL/HES-SO) in Switzerland. Co-founding editor of the film magazine Décadrages (Lausanne, 2003), he is the author of H. D. et le groupe Pool: Des avant-gardes littéraires au cinéma ‘visionnaire’ (L’Âge d’Homme, 2009) and Lettrisme et cinéma: De la lettre au photogramme (Paris Expérimental, 2023). He has written numerous articles on experimental cinema, militant films and artists’ films in scholarly journals and books. He has led different research projects founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland and had edited numerous books on performance art, experimental films, exhibited cinema and early video art. He has recently published the following books and volumes: ‘Chantal Akerman’, Décadrages, 46&47, Autumn 2021–Spring 2022 (F. Bovier and S. Margel [eds]); Marguerite Duras, Le cinéma que je fais. Ecrits et entretiens (ed. F. Bovier and S. Margel), P.O.L., 2021; F. Bovier, A. Mey, T. Schärer and F. Truniger (eds), Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland, JRP/Les presses du réel, 2020; F. Bovier and S. Margel (eds), ‘Cinéma ethnographique’, Décadrages, 40–42, Autumn–Spring 2019; F. Bovier (ed.), Early Video Art and Experimental Films Networks. French-Speaking Switzerland in 1974: A Case for ‘Minor History’, ECAL/Les presses du réel, 2017; F. Bovier and S. Margel (eds), ‘Happenings & Events’: Tulane Drama Review, hiver 1965, Les presses du réel, 2017; F. Bovier (ed.), ‘Cinéma de re-montage’, Décadrages, 34–36, Autumn 2016–Spring 2017.