Raphaël Bassan

Raphaël Bassan is a French film journalist, born in Bulgaria, who has written on experimental cinema (amongst other forms of cinema) in specialist journals such as "Écran" and "La Revue du Cinéma", in national dailies such as "Libération", and in dictionaries and encyclopedias, for example "L' Encyclopædia Universalis" (since 1996), "Une encyclopédie du court métrage français" (2004). He is one of the co-founders of the "Collectif Jeune Cinéma" in 1971, the first French Co-op. to distributed independent and experimental films, and he has made three short films : "Le Départ d'Eurydice" (1969), "Prétextes" (1971), and "Lucy en miroir" (2004). He coined the theory of "cinéma du look" in 1989 in a study about the films of Beineix, Besson and Carax, published by "La revue du Cinéma". The article was translated to English: "The French neo-baroques directors: Beineix, Besson, Carax from 'Diva' to 'le Grand Bleu'" (pp. 11 - 23), in "The Films of Luc Besson: Master of Spectacle" (Under the direction of Susan Hayward and Phil Powrie) Manchester: Manchester University Press. He published « Experimental cinema. Abécédaire pour une contre-culture » (Crisnée: Yellow Now, Belgium, 2014) gathers an extensive set of texts, interviews and articles on some of the key figures and movements that contributed to the emergence of experimental cinema. Bassan's writings spanning the period of the late 1970s to the present.