Lola Rémy
experimental film; archives; feminist historiography; affect theory; women's labour; North-American cinema
Lola Rémy is a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow. She completed her PhD at Concordia University in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (2023), and her MA in Art History at Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris 4 (2016). Her current research project, Affect in the Archive: An Alternative History of the Avant-Garde, is an oral history that centres women’s affective and gendered labour in experimental film archives. This work offers to reexamine women’s labour in founding, organizing, and managing archives as a labor of care, often rooted in their personal relations to filmmakers. It centers women as crucial agents of the circulation, funding, and archiving of experimental cinema. Lola’s research on archives as sites of cultural encounters, racial and gendered violence, and reappropriation by communities and artists has appeared in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Frames Cinema Journal, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, and Synoptique, An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies.
PhD Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University, 2023
- Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
- Book and Festival Reviews
- Edited Journal Issues
- Research Reports
Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“Ré-incarner l’archive, Les ‘film quilts’ de Sabrina Gschwandtner comme forme d’histoire matérielle.” In Actes de la conférence Zone de rupture: Cinéma expérimental et écriture de l'histoire (forthcoming). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes.
“Documenting the Universal: Harry Smith’s Collecting Practice.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue Canadienne d’études cinématographiques 33.2 (Fall 2024).
“Remediating the Archive: Sabrina Gschwandtner’s Film Quilts as Forms of Material Knowledge.” In “Sensing the Archive - Exploring the Digital (Im)materiality of the Moving Image Archive,” special issue, Frames Cinema Journal (Winter 2022): 43-74.
“Making the Map Speak: Indigenous Animated Cartographies as Contrapuntal Spatial Representations.” In “Mapping,” special issue, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies (Autumn 2018): 183-203.
Book and Festival Reviews
“‘Yours in Sisterhood’: Rethinking the Feminist Archive at the 2018 Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal.” Festival review. Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 8.1 (Winter 2019): 138-141.
“When Curating Meets Film Theory: Philippe-Alain Michaud’s Sur le film.” Book Review. Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 5.2 (Winter 2017): 106-109.
Edited Journal Issues
“The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry.” Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 8.2 (Fall 2019).
Research Reports
The 1963 Ford Foundation Program for Film Makers and the Networks of Experimental Cinema. Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, (May 2023).
- Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023-2026
- Rockefeller Archive Center Research Stipend, 2020
- Mitacs Globalink Research Award, 2022
- Concordia University Stand-Out Graduate Research Award, 2019