M. Gilles Ciment

Born in 1962, Gilles Ciment has been thinking about filmed and drawn images for thirty years, which led him to teach the history of cinema at the University of Paris X Nanterre and the aesthetics of comics at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, to preside over the Maison des Auteurs and to sit as an expert in various commissions of the National Center of Cinema and juror in many festivals. He has also edited several books, collaborated on around forty books and numerous critical or historical publications, and curated around twenty exhibitions. In 1983 he created the Cinéma Library in Paris, which he directed until 1991, when he joined the National Library of France under construction as project manager in the Audiovisual Department. After a mission with the Forum des Images, he joined the MK2 group in 1995 as director of communication then deputy general manager, before producing Chinese films and editing DVDs at Paradis Films, where he was director of development from 1999. to 2006.