Biography

Bérénice Reynaud holds a joint appointment in the School of Film/Video and the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, and has a double background as a film critic/historian/ theoretician and a film/video curator. As a critic, her main areas of expertise have been American independent/experimental film/video; films and video by women; Chinese cinema and video; African cinema; gender and feminist film theory. She has written extensively on Chinese cinema/video and films by women. She has been a regular collaborator of Cahiers du cinéma since the mid-1980s, and has published articles in Sight & Sound, Screen (UK), Film Comment, Afterimage, The Independent (USA), Senses of Cinema (Australia – www.sensesofcinema.com ), Libération, CinemAction (France), Meteor, Springerin (Austria), Nosferatu (Spain) and Cinemaya, the Asian Film Quarterly (India), among others – as well as a number of scholarly publications, encyclopedias and catalogue articles in the US, the UK, France, Austria and Italy. She is the author of Nouvelles Chines, nouveaux cinémas (Paris, 1999) and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “A City of Sadness” (London, 2002). A correspondent for the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Spain) and The Viennale (Austria), she has also curated series of Chinese cinema and video in Paris, New York and Los Angeles.