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Lola Remy
Lola Remy is a PhD candidate in Film and Moving Image Studies in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal. She received her MA in History of Arts from Université Paris-Sorbonne. Her dissertation investigates and contextualizes the formation of a post-war universalist discourse as expressed in experimental film practices of assemblage. She offers a decolonizing perspective on the appropriation of Indigenous artefacts and imagery, at the core of this discourse. Her work has been published in NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies. She is a member of the Global Emergent Media Lab at Concordia University. She was the co-editor in chief of Synoptique, A Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies from 2018-2020.
- April 2022 Globalink Research Award, Mitacs
- February 2022 Quebec Mobility Bursary, Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur du Canada
- February 2020 Rockefeller Archive Center Research Stipend. Awarded for archival research at the Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow
- April 2019 Marret Asset Management Scholarship, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
- April 2019 Graduate Student Mobility Award. Awarded for archival research at the Getty Research Institute Archives, Los Angeles
- April 2019 Concordia University Stand-Out Graduate Research Award. Awarded for the peer-reviewed article “Making the Map Speak: Indigenous Animated Cartographies as Contrapuntal Spatial Representations.”
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Russell
Thesis Title: The 'Universal Language of Images': Interdisciplinary Assemblages in Post-War Experimental Cinema
Research Interests:
- experimental cinema
- postcolonial theory
- film and ethnographic archives
- indigenous films and media
- cultural history
Teaching/TAships:
- Fall-Winter 2022-23 French Conversation Workshop Leader, GradProSkills, Concordia University
- Fall 2022 Teaching Assistant – “Film Analysis” Instructor: Dr. Terri Ginsberg
- Winter 2022 Teaching Assistant – “Noir without Borders” Instructor: Dr. Troy Bordun
- Winter 2022 Teaching Assistant – “Moving Camera Aesthetic” Instructor: Dr. John Locke
- Fall 2021 Teaching Assistant – “Women and Film” Instructor: Dr. Terri Ginsberg
- Winter 2021 Teaching Assistant - "Topics in Indpendent Cinema: Film Curation and Knowledge Production" Instructor: Ilona Jurkonyte
- Fall 2020 Co-instructor - "Cinema and the Body"
- Winter 2020 Guest Lecturer - “Fourth Cinema”, in “History of Film Since 1959” Instructor: Prof. Joshua Neves
- Winter 2020 Teaching Assistant - “History of Film Since 1959” Instructor: Prof. Joshua Neves
- Fall 2019 Instructor - “Methods in Film Studies”
- Fall 2018 Teaching Assistant - “Methods in Film Studies” Instructor: Dr. Weixian Pan
- Winter 2018 Teaching Assistant - “Non-Fiction Film since 1956” Instructor: Prof. Luca Caminati
- Fall 2017 Teaching Assistant - “Methods in Film Studies” Instructor: Dr. Rachel Webb Jekanoswski.
- Winter 2017 Teaching Assistant - “Introduction to Film Studies” Instructor: Dr. Donato Totaro.
- Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant - “History of Film to 1959” Instructor: Dr. David Douglas.
Selected Publications:
2022
“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,” ed. Catherine Russell, special issue, Frames Cinema Journal (Winter 2022): 43-74. https://framescinemajournal.com/article/remediating-the-archive-sabrina-gschwandtners-film-quilts-as-forms-of-material-knowledge
Cross-Disciplinary Research Networks and Universal Communications: Stan VanDerBeek’s Multimedia Collaborations. Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, November 2022).
2019
“The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry.” Special issue of Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 8.2. Edited with the medialabour collective (Fall 2019)
“‘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)
2018
“Making the Map Speak: Indigenous Animated Cartographies as Contrapuntal Spatial Representations.” In “Mapping,” special issue, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies (Autumn 2018)
2017
“When Curating Meets Film Theory: Philippe-Alain Michaud’s Sur le film.” Book Review. Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies5.2 (Winter 2017)
Email: lola.remy@concordia.ca