Benoit Turquety

Benoît Turquety is Associate Professor of cinema history and aesthetics at the Université de Lausanne. He is Director of the SNF research project on Bolex and amateur cinema and of the EPIMETE/Digital Media Epistemology research axis. He is a founding member of the Material Archival Studies Network and a member of the Dispositives research group, of the Network for Experimental Media Archaeology, as well as the Technology and the Humanities project. His recent publications include Inventing...See more

Benoît Turquety is Associate Professor of cinema history and aesthetics at the Université de Lausanne. He is Director of the SNF research project on Bolex and amateur cinema and of the EPIMETE/Digital Media Epistemology research axis. He is a founding member of the Material Archival Studies Network and a member of the Dispositives research group, of the Network for Experimental Media Archaeology, as well as the Technology and the Humanities project. His recent publications include Inventing Cinema: Machines, Gestures and Media History (Amsterdam University Press), Medium, Format, Configuration: The Displacements of Film (Meson Press), and Des avant-dernières machines. Cinéma, techniques, histoire (co-edited with Selim Krichane, L'Âge d'Homme). See less