Christopher Nolan Weekend

The topics covered include

• Interstellar and the depiction of astrophysics
• An aesthetic analysis of Nolan’s films
• The multiple personalities of Batman and Joker
• Music and sound in Nolan’s films
• The arts of memory and Memento
• The inversion of time’s arrow, embedded layers and pluriverses in Inception, Dunkirk, Interstellar and TenetOppenheimer, the Manhattan Project and its links with cybernetics, and Nolan’s assertion that artificial intelligence may be the modern-day equivalent of the atomic bomb

The participants include

• Timothée Gérardin (film critic and author)
• Isabelle Labrouillère (film researcher and author)
• Roland Lehoucq (astrophysicist)
• Elsa Courant (literature researcher)
• Dick Tomasovic (Film professor and analyst)
• Clément Pelissier (literature researcher)
• Thierry Hoquet (philosophy professor)
• Chloé Huvet (musicology researcher)
• Emmanuelle Bobée (doctor of musicology)
• Virginie Ollagnier (novelist and comic book writer)
• Sam Azulys (philosopher and film professor)
• Gilles Menegaldo (literature and film professor)
• Peter Strain (illustrator)

Editorial and cultural mediation committee

• Gilles Alvarez (artistic director of Biennale Némo)
• Donatien Aubert (artist)
• Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis (artist)
• Julie Sauret (head of communication and coordination of the Arts & Sciences Chair at École polytechnique, École des Arts Décoratifs-Paris and Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso)
• Frédéric Landragin (CNRS research director and author)
• Christopher Robinson (lecturer at École polytechnique, specialist in science fiction and fantasy)

#performance
CASCADES 
Franck Vigroux et Antoine Schmitt / Cie d’Autres Cordes 

The weekend will culminate with CASCADES, a performance by Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt accompanying the cinema of Christopher Nolan. A work of rare visual and sonic power, CASCADES is a stream of pixels and sounds both immutable and continually changing, where disaster may strike. Synesthetic and contemplative, reflective and physical, the performance pulls us into an (almost) black hole, or perhaps a wormhole like in Interstellar.