Occitane Lacurie

Occitane Lacurie is a PhD student at the École des Arts de la Sorbonne in Paris, a film journalist, as well as a video-essayist. Her academic work like her videographic practice are interested in media archaeology and the way hardware or software can be used to unveil invisible phenomena and untold chapters of the history of ideas. As a film critique, she is a member of the editorial board of the French film journal Débordements and appears in Mediapart's cultural podcast, "L'Esprit critique". Her articles are focused on the forgotten history of feminist French criticism and the way images could be considered as crystallised political discourses. As a video essayist, her works have been shown in several international festivals such as Pesaro Film Festival (ReEdit competition award 2022), Cinéma du Réel (Parallel selection 2021), En Temps Réel (2024), Mariendbad Film Festival (Video Essay selection 2024). They explore the way in which the material history of media can be told by reusing the images produced by the audiovisual fabric of reality.