Gustave Eiffel University, Sorbonne University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Turku, University of Caen Normandy & the Norwegian University Centre in Paris
Paris, France November 14th-15th, 2024
Joachim Trier is one of the most internationally acclaimed contemporary Nordic filmmakers, and his cinema is a particularly interesting subject for researchers in film studies and Nordic studies. His cinema is an invitation to explore Norwegian culture, as it allows us to discover Oslo and its contemporary art scene. What’s more, he tackles Norwegian social issues that have an international echo: the issues of sexuality today, our relationship with drink or melancholy, freedom of expression and lifestyle choices, etc. In this regard, he has developed one of the finest artworks to catch the urban individual.
Furthermore, Trier is also a filmmaker, whose tradition is rooted in the French auteurism. His work constantly refers to French literary works or films. It is therefore impossible to penetrate his cinema without Paris and France. Trier has a detailed knowledge of French art and literature, while at the same time being a keen observer of his Norwegian contemporaries. In this way, his films establish a dialogue between the two cultures, which deserves to be highlighted and discussed with him. It seems to us that Trier has a lot to say about French culture and that it is time for the Norwegian view of it to be valued. In this respect, Trier is a Norwegian filmmaker in every sense of the word, but he is also the most French of them all. Our project aims to make Joachim Trier better known in France, and to open up the French public to the discovery of Norway through his cinema. To this regard, we aim to showcase this much-loved but still mysterious filmmaker to the French public.
This international conference is an opportunity to bring together a group of international experts in Paris. This event is also the occasion to discuss with Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier’s screenwriter and himself a filmmaker, about the contemporary norwegian auteur cinema and its importance within the nordic cinema
Programme:
•Thursday, November 14th, 2024. Copernicus Auditorium (Amphithéâtre Copernic) – Gustave Eiffel University
09:00-09:15 Welcome
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
09:15-10:25 Anne Gjelsvik: Urban Memories in The Oslo Trilogy
10:25-10:45 Coffee break
POETICS
Chair: Anne Gjelsvik & Aymeric Pantet
10:45-11:15 Christian Bank Pedersen (University of Caen Normandy): Trier’s Repetitions
11:15-11:45 Diane Arnaud (Gustave Eiffel University): Oslo, mon amour Either/Or L’Année dernière à Paris
11:45-12:15 Marc Cerisuelo (Gustave Eiffel University): The Ghosts of French Literature in Oslo, 31th of August
12:15-12:30 Q&A
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
AESTHETICS
Chair: Diane Arnaud & Frédérique Harry
14:00-14:30 Ilona Hongisto (University of Helsinki): Unbound by the Image. Aesthetics of the Frame in Joachim Trier’s Films
14:30-15:00 Kevin Dahan (Gustave Eiffel University): Sound Makes Sense
15:00-15:30 Aymeric Pantet (University of Turku): ‘Nostalgia is a reaction against the irreversible’ (Jankélévitch): on Trier’s Use of Rack Focus
15:30-15:45 Q&A
15:45-16:00 Coffee break
SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACHES
Chair: Christian Bank Pedersen & Aymeric Pantet
16:00-16:30 Corinne François-Denève (University of Burgundy): Oslo-Paris, a One Way Ticket: the Critical Reception of Joachim Trier in France
16:30-17:00 Frédérique Harry (Sorbonne University): Trier: Religion at Stake
17:00-17:15 Q&A
• Friday, November 15th, 2024. Center for franco-norwegian Cooperation in the Social and Human Sciences, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 54 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris
09:00-09:15 Welcome
INFILTRATION OF REALITY
Chair: Frédérique Harry & Anne Gjelsvik
09:15-09:45 Pietari Kääpä (University of Warwick): Trier’s Ecocinema – From Bad Environmentalism to Banal Materialism
09:45-10:15 Audun Engelstad (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences): Undecidable Focalization in Thelma
10:15-10:45 Andrew Nestingen (University of Washington): Drugging, Drinking, Addiction and Trier
10:45-11:00 Q&A
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
IDENTITIES, BODIES, INDIVIDUAL
Chair: Diane Arnaud & Christian Bank Pedersen
11:15-11:45 Valérie Carré (Sorbonne University): Representations of Body and World in The Oslo Trilogy
11:45-12 :15 Anne Jerslev (University of Copenhagen): Joachim Trier’s Close-Ups and Autonomous Moments
12:15-12:45 Claire Delahaye (Gustave Eiffel University): Feminism and Anti-Feminism in The Worst Person in the World
12:45-13:00 Q&A
13:00-14:45 Lunch break
CONVERSATION WITH ESKIL VOGT
14:45-16:00 Eskil Vogt in conversation with Anne Gjelsvik
16:00-16:30 Q&A
16:30 Closing Words
• Organization:
Diane Arnaud, Gustave Eiffel University
Anne Gjelsvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Frédérique Harry, Sorbonne University
Aymeric Pantet, University of Turku
Christian Bank Pedersen, University of Caen Normandy
• Scientific Committee:
Kevin Dahan, Gustave Eiffel University
Éric Dufour, Paris Cité University & IUF
Anne Gjelsvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sarah Harchaoui, Sorbonne University