PhD in preparation in media theory and aesthetics, laboratory Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Cinema and Audiovisual (ESTCA), University Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis.

The aim of this research-creation project is to construct a theory of screen capture as a medium, a “screen-camera” that has become a tool for capturing our interactive and connected experiences. Starting from the drawing up of an archaeology of this medium, and then from the study of texts on the ontology of the cinematographic “prise”, I try to show how screen video capture re-enacts the issues of cinema, a century later, in an era characterised by acceleration and automation. By capturing the dizzying flows of the internet, this medium makes it possible to document and archive the reality of our virtual interactions and existences, and thus to propose, from these images, plastic and critical elaborations that carry meaning. The analysis of a corpus of films and video artworks based on video screen captures as a device for image production sheds light on the multiple reflexive, narrative and poetic uses of this medium in contemporary cinema and video art. The thesis consists of a documentary essay (La mécanique des fluides, 2022) and a manuscript.

Supervisor: Cécile Sorin, Université Paris 8 and Sergi Sánchez, Pompeu Fabra University.

Defense: expected in 2023.