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