Dr. Gabriele Biotti is a film theorist and a multidisciplinary researcher. He obtained a PhD degree in Film Aesthetics at Lille3 University (Doctoral School “Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société”), jointly with the University of Siena, his scholarly areas are Film Studies, Memory Studies, Historiography and the Anthropology of Representations. His PhD thesis is a research work on the anachronism in cinema and on the essay film practice.
Gabriele has explored questions of film aesthetics, film history writing, epistemology of history of film theories, memory practices and forms of memory telling and writing. He has published books and articles on film aesthetics, film styles and the relationships between film form and the practice of history writing and memory telling. Some of his publications are about the cinema of David Lynch, Samuel Beckett’s films for television, Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour, the cinema of Edgar Reitz, the cinema of Chris Marker, Giuseppe Bertolucci’s nonfictional works and Cesare Zavattini’s idea of cinema and the audiovisual.
Dr. Biotti has given courses of “Teorie e Tecniche del Linguaggio Cinematografico” and “Metodologia della Critica Cinematografica” at the University of Siena, where he has also given seminars and lectures for the courses of “Storia delle Teorie del Film” and “Storia e Critica del Cinema”, with seminars on New German Cinema, film aesthetics and the epistemology of history, film and experience and a lecture on Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. His focus has been on a group of films by Michelangelo Antonioni, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke, Alexander Kluge, Ingmar Bergman, Chris Marker, Wim Wenders and Stanley Kubrick.
Gabriele has presented papers in conferences such as the International Film Studies Conference (Udine), Avanca Cinema Conference (Avanca, Portugal), the Festival “Jeunes chercheurs dans la cité” (Brussels), the III International Conference on Myth Criticism (Madrid), the Arts in Society Conference (London), the “Mirror, Mirror: Perceptions, Deceptions, and Reflections in Time” Conference (London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research) and the “International Conference on Film Studies: Identity, Projection and the Other” (London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research). In 2018 he created and co-organized the “Play, Masks and Make-Believe” Conference (London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research). Currently he is developing a research project on ritual processes of remembering through the analysis of Uruguayan documentary cinema.
