Conferences
Alex Leo Şerban - And Yet, Why Do We Watch Movies?
On Sunday, January 18th, 2009, at 11 o'clock, at the Black Box Hall, together with Alex Leo Şerban, we invite you to a conference that attempts to answer the question And yet, why do we watch movies?
"Following in the footsteps of the book published in 2007 by Polirom and awarded by the Filmmakers’ Union, the conference And Yet, Why Do We Watch Movies? proposes a journey through cinematic Arcadia, trying to answer some practical questions: What are we looking for in a movie? What are the most suitable stories for this art? How do they touch us? When are we most available to see a movie? And: Where is it preferable to see it - in a movie theatre, on TV, on a computer?" Alex Leo Şerban
About Alex Leo Şerban
He is a film critic and senior editor at Dilema (Veche) magazine.
He made his debut in 1976 with a poem in Chicago Review, USA
He was a fellow of the French Ministry of Culture, "International Visitor" in the USA, GE / NEC fellow.
He taught at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Bucharest and at UATC, and currently holds a master's degree course at the Center of Excellence for Image Study.
He has been on the juries of many Romanian and international film festivals.
He has been published in various foreign journals (Cahiers du cinéma, France, Carta di cinema, Italy, Cover Magazine, USA).
Collaborates on Elle, Idei în dialog, Libertatea, LiterNet, Observator Cultural, Suplimentul de cultură.
Several photography exhibitions (in the country and USA).
He wrote (in collaboration with Mihai Chirilov and Ştefan Bălan) the volume Lars von Trier: The Films, the Women, the Ghosts (Idea Publishing House), earning the Prize of the Romanian Film Critics Association and (in collaboration with Şerban Foarta) Jeu de paume (LiterNet, exchange of versified letters in French).
Other published books: Robinson's Dietetics (Curtea Veche Publishing House, nominated for the Literary Romania Awards and the Writers' Union Awards) and Why We Watch Films (Polirom Publishing House, Film Critics Award of the Union of Filmmakers). A second volume about (Romanian) film will soon be published by Polirom Publishing House.
He supervises the "Film Library" collection of Humanitas Publishing House.
He was the only Romanian critic invited to Bernard Pivot's "Double Je" show and was interviewed by "The New York Times".
In January 2008, he was voted - following a poll on the Cinemagia website -" The favourite film critic of Romanian moviegoers ".
Photo: Rareş Avram
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
