Amherst Center for Russian Culture Marie Rebecchi, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3

Marie Rebecchi teaches as an adjunct professor at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 and Université d'Amiens. She holds a PhD in “Aesthetics and Art Theory”. She spent research periods as Post-Doctoral Researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (EHESS). She specializes in the aesthetics of cinema, with a special focus on avant-garde cinema and abstract cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. She edited with Elena Vogman and Till Gathmann a book (NERO, 2017) and curated an exhibition at NOMAS Foundation (Rome, 2017-18), both entitled Sergei Eisenstein. The Anthropology of Rhythm. Together with Elena Vogman and Till Gathmann she curated the exhibition Eccentric Values after Eisenstein (Espace Diaphanes, 2018). Her book Paris 1929. Eisenstein, Bataille, Buñuel is now published in the collection "Images, médiums" of the publishing house Mimésis (2018). It focuses on Eisenstein’s stay in Paris in 1929-30 and on the relationship between the Surrealist movement and the theories of montage of the 1920s.