Philippe-Alain Michaud

Philippe-Alain Michaud is a curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, in charge of the film collection and teaches history and theory of cinema at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Aby Warburg et l’image en mouvement (Macula, 1998), Le peuple des images (Desclée de Brouwer, 2004), Sur le Film (Macula, 2016), Âmes primitives. Figures de film, de peluche et de papier (Macula, 2019) and has written extensively on the relationship between film and the visual arts. He has curated several exhibitions, including: Comme le rêve le dessin (Musée du Louvre/Centre Pompidou, 2004), Le mouvement des images (Centre Pompidou, 2006), Nuits électriques (Musée, de la photographie, Moscou and Laboral (Gijon, Spain) 2007, Tapis volants (Villa Medici, Rome and Les Abattoirs, Toulouse) 2010, Images sans fin, Brancusi photographie, film (Centre Pompidou, 2012 with Quentin Bajac and Clément Cheroux), Beat Generation (Centre Pompidou, 2016), L’œil extatique : Sergueï Eisenstei...