Angela Dalle Vacche
Full Professor of Film Studies, Georgia Institue of Technology
Project: Andre Bazin's Film Theory; Art, Science and Religion
Angela Dalle Vacche has been working on Andre Bazin's film theory: Art, Science, Religion since 2008. When Dalle Vacche came to Camargo, she had the body of the book, especially the art and science part, in good shape. She improved the religion part and did further research on Bresson. Thus this third section came together. Then, during her 8 weeks at Camargo, she wrote her introduction and conclusion. The introduction most especially was painful, but because of the pressure of her project presentation, she pulled it off, just in time. The conclusion was much easier. The book also contains a chapter on the History of Ideas, before the sequence of Art, Science and Religion. Luckily for her, the husband of one of the Resident Fellows was a physicist and he helped me with some concepts from Einstein that are relevant to cinema. This was a total coincidence, but it is most helpful to meet everybody including their spouses and partners, because the intellectual level around here was extremely high and diversified. It was a great experience. Dalle Vacche left Camargo looking forward to wrapping up her book with footnotes, bibliography, pictures, and all the rest that it needs. She also started using the Camargo Library for her future project: African Film, African Art . She said that she did not waste one single minute of her time, but also enjoyed meeting everybody and thinks that all these contacts will stay on for a long time.