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Thierry Kuntzel

Biography

French film theorist and videomaker Thierry Kuntzel, whose distinguished writings are among the major contributions to the textual analysis of film, also produced an original body of videotapes and installations.

William of Saint-Thierry in the XII century and Beatrice of Nazareth in the XIII century.

Kuntzel's article (first published in ) is about getting an arty Canadian animation (Peter Foldes' Appetite of a Bird []) down to its frames; once fixed.

Thierry Kuntzel is a person of ideas.

WILLIAM KERRIGAN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vir- ginia.

William Anastasi, and Francis Alys.

Kuntzel's theoretical texts propose significant applications of psychoanalytical and semiological constructs as elaborations of the relation of the filmic and psychical apparatuses. Among the concepts that he elucidated in the context of the cinema are condensation and displacement, defilement, the imaginary and the unconscious, the "dream-work" and the film-work.

In the late 1970s, Kuntzel shifted from the analysis of film to the production of video. Minimalist in representation yet richly layered in suggestive content, works such as Nostos I (1979), Time Smoking a Picture (1980) and Le peintre cubiste (1981) use video to uncover the essence of the perception of reality and representation, memory and the unconscious, in relation to the c