IAN CHRISTIE is professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, and a film historian, curator, and broadcaster. He has written and edited books on Powell and Pressburger, Russian cinema, Scorsese, and Gilliam. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy, director of the London Screen Study Collection, and a past president of Europa Cinemas. His recent publications include The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design (Columbia University Press, 2009), Audiences (Amsterdam University Press, 2012), Doctor Zhivago (Palgrave and McMillan, 2016), and chapters and articles on early film copyright, film in the museum, the representation of the ancient world in early cinema, trick films and special effects, stereoscopy, and space and place on screen. PRISKA MORRISSEY is a lecturer in film studies at Rennes 2 University. As a historian of cinema trades and techniques, she has investigated the history of French cinematographers, which she covered in the book Les as de la manivelle : le métier d'opérateur de prise de vues cinématographiques en France (1895-1930) (AFRHC, 2021). She is currently researching silent-era negative stocks. LOUIS PELLETIER is research professional and instructor at Université de Montréal.
He has published on early and silent cinema, film exhibition, experimental film, amateur cinema, film preservation and film technology in Film History , 1895 , The Canadian Journal of Film Studies , Found Footage and The Journal of Film Preservation . He was co-editor of Tales from the Vaults: Film Technology over the Years and across Continents (FIAF/Technès, 2023) and Le cinéma dans l'oeil du collectionneur (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2023). VALENTINE ROBERT is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lausanne. A historian of both art and film, her research is fundamentally interdisciplinary, focusing on the relationship of cinema to painting, theater, magic lantern and tableaux vivants . Co-editor of Le film sur l'art (PUR, 2015) and Corporeality in Early Cinema (IUP, 2018), she was part of a SNF research project focusing on the representation of Christ, contributed to exhibitions at the Musée d'Orsay, National Gallery of Canada, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and curated film programs for international film archives. Professor JEAN-PIERRE SIROIS-TRAHAN is the director of the Cinéma and digital culture program of the Département de littérature, thé'tre et cinéma at Université Laval. He has co-edited many publications, including a special issue (Fall 2003) of Cinémas dedicated to cinematic " dispositifs ," and an issue of Revue d'études proustiennes on Marcel Proust in the days of early cinema. Recently, he edited the film chronicles written by seminal Quebec journalist and politician René Lévesque ( Lumières vives , Boréal, 2023).
A film theorist and historian, he is currently working on the concept of decoupage , on the history of film criticism, and on early cinema. TAMI WILLIAMS is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and served two terms as President of Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema (2016-2024). She is the author, editor, and/or co-editor of several books, most recently, Provenance and Early Cinema (2021), Germaine Dulac: What Is Cinema? (2019, 2020 CNC Prix du livre) , Global Cinema Networks (2018) , Performing New Media, 1895-1915 (2014), and Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations (2014), as well as a special issue of The Moving Image on "Early Cinema and the Archives" (2016). She also serves as a board member of Women Film History International.