Lola Rémy

Lola Rémy
Contact Information
Email address: 
lola.remy [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Address: 

McCall MacBain Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Postdoctoral Fellows
Stream: 
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
United States
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Contemporary
Area(s): 
Affect Theory
Archives & Bibliography
Embodied Practice & Ethnographic Approaches
Film & Television
Areas of interest: 

experimental film; archives; feminist historiography; affect theory; women's labour; North-American cinema

Biography: 

Lola Rémy is a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow. She completed her PhD at Concordia University in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (2023), and her MA in Art History at Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris 4 (2016). Her current research project, Affect in the Archive: An Alternative History of the Avant-Garde, is an oral history that centres women’s affective and gendered labour in experimental film archives. This work offers to reexamine women’s labour in founding, organizing, and managing archives as a labor of care, often rooted in their personal relations to filmmakers. It centers women as crucial agents of the circulation, funding, and archiving of experimental cinema. Lola’s research on archives as sites of cultural encounters, racial and gendered violence, and reappropriation by communities and artists has appeared in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Frames Cinema Journal, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, and Synoptique, An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies.

Degree(s): 

PhD Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University, 2023

Selected publications: 

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

“Ré-incarner l’archive, Les ‘film quilts’ de Sabrina Gschwandtner comme forme d’histoire matérielle.” In Actes de la conférence Zone de rupture: Cinéma expérimental et écriture de l'histoire (forthcoming). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes.

“Documenting the Universal: Harry Smith’s Collecting Practice.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue Canadienne d’études cinématographiques 33.2 (Fall 2024).

“.” In “Sensing the Archive - Exploring the Digital (Im)materiality of the Moving Image Archive,” special issue, Frames Cinema Journal (Winter 2022): 43-74.

“.” In “Mapping,” special issue, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies (Autumn 2018): 183-203.

Book and Festival Reviews

“.” Festival review. Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 8.1 (Winter 2019): 138-141.

“.” Book Review. Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 5.2 (Winter 2017): 106-109.

Edited Journal Issues

“.” Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 8.2 (Fall 2019).

Research Reports

. Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, (May 2023).

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023-2026
  • Rockefeller Archive Center Research Stipend, 2020
  • Mitacs Globalink Research Award, 2022
  • Concordia University Stand-Out Graduate Research Award, 2019
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