Spring 2009
Emilie Vergé is a Ph student at the Université de Paris-3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, currently preparing a dissertation on the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. In 2009, she received a grant from the Terra Foundation for the American Arts, and came to do research in the United States. She has been a visting scholar at New York University (and studied at the MoMA and the Anthology Film Archives). Since the beginning of 2010, she is a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder. More generally, her research and writings focus on the visual nature of images, and modernist art forms (especially in film, but also in painting and poetry). She also did an extensive research on the French filmmaker Philippe Garrel.