PRESIDENCY:

DOMITOR
Scott Curtis (2011)
Department of Radio-Television-Film
Northwestern University
1920 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
USA
tel: 847-491-2249
email: scurtis@northwestern.edu

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SECRETARIAT AND DOMITOR BULLETIN:

DOMITOR
c/o Priska Morrissey (2011)
email: priskamorrissey@gmail.com

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TREASURER AND SUBSCRIPTIONS:

DOMITOR
Pierre Véronneau (2009)
Cinémathèque québécoise
335, boul de Maisonneuve est
Montréal, Qc
Canada H2X 1K1
tél. : +1 (514) 842-9768 p.231
fax: +1 (514) 842-1816
email: pveronneau@cinematheque.qc.ca

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

Roland Cosandey (Switzerland) (2011)
email: roland.cosandey@ecal.ch
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Donald Crafton (USA) (2010)
email: dcrafton@nd.edu
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Nico de Klerk (Netherlands) (2010)
Email: nklerk@filmmuseum.nl

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François Jost (France) (2009)
email: francoisjost@ceisme.fr

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Matthew Solomon (USA) (2011)
Email: solomon@mail.csi.cuny.edu
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Vanessa Toulmin (UK) (2011)
email: fairground@sheffield.ac.uk

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FULL BIOS:

PRESIDENCY

Scott Curtis (PhD, Iowa) is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA. His areas of expertise include early German cinema and the early uses of motion pictures for scientific and medical research. These interests are combined in his forthcoming book, Managing Modernity: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany (Columbia University Press). He has also published essays on early sound technology, the history of the MPPC, and early film theory in such journals as Film History, Cinema et Cie, and montage/av.



SECRETARIAT AND DOMITOR BULLETIN

Priska Morrissey is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Rennes 2 (France). Her areas of expertise include early French cinema, the history of professions in the film industry, the history of film techniques, and the art of lighting. Her dissertation (2008) examined the profession of cinematography in France from 1895 to 1926. She has also published Historiens et cineastes, rencontre de deux écritures (Paris, 2004), on the status and function of historians as motion picture advisers.



TREASURER AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

Pierre Véronneau is an established historian of Canadian film, and is director of collections at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montréal. He is also a professor of cinema at Concordia University and the Université de Montréal. He is a member of the Groupe de recherche sur l’avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographiques et scéniques (UdM). He has curated many exhibitions on cinema, published in 2003 David Cronenberg: la beauté du chaos (Paris, Cerf-Corlet) and co-edited with André Gaudreault and Catherine Russell The Cinema: A New Technology for the 20th Century (Editions Payot Lausanne, 2004). Véronneau's articles have appeared in many books and reviews, including Moving Image, Film History, 1895, Cinémas,Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, and others



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Roland Cosandey teaches in the Cinema Department at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (Switzerland) and is also a practicing historian. He co-edited the first two proceedings of the Domitor symposia and is one of two recipients of the Prix Jean Mitry awarded in 2006 by the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone. His research focuses particularly on the early years of cinema in Switzerland, the question of archives, and historiography. Recent publications include a contribution to a book on Emile Cohl to be published in September 2008 (Pascal Vimenet, ed., Editions de l'Oeil, Paris) and to the first volume of a regional filmography, Neuchâtel, Canton Pictures: Neuchâteloise Filmography, vol 1, 1900-1950 (Aude Joseph, ed.)



Donald Crafton is the Notre Dame Professor of Film and Culture in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre specializing in film history and visual culture. His research interests have focused on the early history of motion pictures and the history of animation. Among his books are Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film and The Talkies: American Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1926-1931.  His Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928, has been in print for twenty-five years. A third book on animation, Shadow of a Mouse: Performance in Classic Animation, is in progress. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Crafton an Academy Film Scholar in 2001, he has been the recipient of two NEH Fellowships, and he is the recipient of the French Jean Mitry prize in film history.



Nico de Klerk works at the Nederlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. He has done research on such topics as early nonfiction film, colonial cinema, the programme format, and home movies. He has published on these topics in international film historical journals and anthologies. He co-edited three Filmmuseum books: Nonfiction from the teens (1994), “Disorderly Order”: Colours in Silent Film (1996), Unchartered Territory: Essays on Early Nonfiction Film (1997). He has presented film programmes from the Nederlands Filmmuseum's archive on these and other topics at various international conferences (such as Domitor, Visual Delights, and Orphans) and universities. He has curated programmes for the Nederlands Filmmuseum as well as for archival festivals in Pordenone and Bologna, including “Dark Treasures” and “All's Well in the Colony” (both on colonial cinema); “The American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1896-1903”; “100 Years of Film Exhibition”; and retrospectives of Fritz Lang, Raymond Depardon, Péter Forgács, and Cary Grant.



François Jost is Full Professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III University, where he is Director of the Centre d’Études sur l’image et le Son Médiatiques (CEISME), and teaches television analysis, narratology, and semiology. He has authored numerous books and articles on cinema and television, includingL’Œil-caméra (1987), Le récit cinématographique (with A. Gaudreault, 1990), Un monde à notre image (1993), La Télévision du quotidien (2001), L’Empire du loft (2002), Realta/Finzione (2003), Comprendre la télévision (2005).  He has published numerous essays on early cinema and has participated in most of the Domitor Congresses. One of his books, Le temps d'un regard: Du spectateur aux images (1998), primarily concerns early cinema.



Matthew Solomon is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he coordinates the master’s program in Cinema and Media Studies. He has published on magic and early cinema in Cinema et Cie, Theatre Journal,Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, and KINtop, and curated the “Magic in Film” programs for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in 2006. He is the author of Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2009, forthcoming) and editor of Méliès’s Trip to the Moon: Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination (State University of New York Press, forthcoming).



Vanessa Toulmin is  Professor in Early Film and Popular Entertainment at the University of Sheffield and Director of the National Fairground Archive held in the University Library. With Martin Loiperdinger she coordinated the International Network on Local Films and programmed the Crazy Cinematograph project for Luxembourg and Wider Regions Capital of Culture in 2007. With the British Film Institute she curated the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection and has published widely in the fields of nineteenth-century popular entertainment and early cinema, including The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film (London: British Film Institute, 2004) and  Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection (London: British Film Institute, 2006).  With Simon Popple, she is founder and editor of the Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture (published by Routledge) and co-founder of the Visual Delights series of conferences held triannually at the University of Sheffield.