Join us for the launch of Ivan Cerecina’s book Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2026), with a discussion between Cerecina and Robert Hughes (Curator, Australian Cinémathèque) and a screening of Statues Also Die (1953), directed by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet. Commissioned by the pan-Africanist journal Présence Africaine, this essay film explores the way museums strip African art of meaning and value, and asks why it is relegated to ethnographic displays. This landmark work of anti-colonial cinema was banned in France for fifteen years. 30min. Subtitles.
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Ivan Cerecina teaches in Film Studies at the University of Sydney. He has been a research fellow at the Cité Internationale des Arts and the City of Paris’s International Artists and Writers Residency Program. His work has been published in Screen, Camera Obscura, and Framework. Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film is his first book.
Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet 'Statues Also Die' 1953.
