CONFERENCE: Human Transformation in Contemporary French Cinema with Alice Guillot-Lefeuvre

Schedule

Tue Feb 10 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

1345 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 | San Francisco, CA

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Hosted in collaboration with Villa Albertine and the French Consulate.
About this Event

Join us for a compelling and visually rich conversation with Alice Guillot-Lefeuvre, PhD candidate in Film and Audiovisual Studies at Université Lumière Lyon 2, Université Lumière Lyon 2, whose research sits at the intersection of cinema, the body, and queer theory. Her doctoral work delves into striking images of monstrous metamorphosis in contemporary French genre cinema, examining how bodily transformation becomes a powerful language for exploring identity, desire, and resistance.
Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, particularly gender studies and film iconology, Alice Guillot- Lefeuvre investigates how today’s filmmakers reshape the human body on screen, turning mutation and excess into bold tools for rethinking norms around gender, sexuality, and embodiment.
In this talk, she will guide audiences through the provocative and unsettling worlds of directors such as Julia Ducournau (Raw, Titane) and Coralie Fargeat (The Substance), offering accessible insights into their aesthetics, themes, and cultural impact. Whether you are passionate about film, curious about queer representation in contemporary art, or fascinated by the ways horror and genre cinema reflect social anxieties, this event promises a thought-provoking and engaging experience!

Hosted in collaboration with Villa Albertine and the French Consulate.


Pour en savoir plus... en français!
Alice Guillot- Lefeuvre prépare un doctorat en études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles au sein de l'école doctorale Lettres, Langues, Linguistique & Arts (« 3LA » – ED 484) de l’Université Lumière Lyon 2. Elle est membre du laboratoire Passages Arts & Littératures (**-XXI). Dirigée par Rémi Fontanel, sa thèse se consacre à l'étude des images de métamorphoses monstrueuses dans le cinéma de genre français contemporain et plus largement à la relation entre ces transformations et leurs représentations queer dans le champ des arts. Elle sollicite à ce titre les sciences humaines et sociales, en particulier les études de genre et l’iconologie filmique.
Actuellement en deuxième année de thèse à l’Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Lyon, France), Alice Guillot-Lefeuvre consacre sa recherche doctorale aux figures monstrueuses du cinéma français contemporain, s’intéressant notamment aux lieux de leurs transformations physiques. Elle a par exemple étudié le placard dans les films de body horror transgressifs de Julia Ducournau (Grave, Titane, Alpha) ; la chasse, dans le désert (Revenge) ou le couloir (The Substance) dans les films de Coralie Fargeat ; la salle de bain comme seuil symbolique dans Teddy de Ludovic et Zoran Boukherma ; ou encore l’omniprésence de la Camargue dans Animale d’Emma Benestan. Et si les lieux exerçaient un pouvoir de déclencheur de la mutation des corps?
Son hypothèse ouvre à repenser les espaces et leurs traitements cinématographiques. Cette discussion sera l’occasion de partager ses réflexions sur ces différents exemples.

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