The vampire screen

He embodies in turn power, the parasite, passion. From literature to the silver screen, the vampire travels and metamorphoses. The exhibition “Vampires” maps the trajectory of this protean figure who, like cinema, becomes a surface projection of the anxieties of the time.

Matthew Orlean is an artistic collaborator with the General Management of La Cinémathèque française, responsible for temporary exhibitions since 2004. He has notably been the curator of the exhibitions: Almodovar Exhibition! (2006), Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood (2008), The Enchanted World of Jacques Demy (2013), Amos Gitai Architect of Memory (2014), Martin Scorsese (2015), Gus Van Sant Icons (2016) and When Fellini dreamed of Picasso (2019). He is the curator of the exhibition Vampires (2019).

Since 1998 he has been writing about cinema and the visual arts for the press and for various works (Chantal Akerman, Self-portrait as a filmmaker And Raymond Hains, I have memory who works for the Centre Pompidou publishing house, among others). In 2011, his book dedicated to the filmmaker Paul Vecchiali was published by Éditions de l’œil, The Cinema House.

The exhibition “Vampires” was presented at the Cinémathèque française from October 9, 2019 to January 19, 2020, then moves to the CaixaForum in Madrid (February 13-June 7, 2020) and Barcelona (July 7-October 25, 2020).

Shooting and editing: Ariel Suhamy.

Round table in the presence of Matthieu Orléan at the Collège de France on the occasion of La Nuit des idées: