Nicole Brenez teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Sorbonne nouvelle. She is the Director of the Analysis & Culture Department at the Femis and curator of the avant-garde film sessions at the Cinémathèque française. Graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, agrégée of Modern Litterature, she was a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2011-2016).
She works directly with filmmakers such as Philippe Grandrieux, with whom she produces the film collection It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve, devoted to revolutionary filmmakers forgotten or neglected by the histories of cinema. The three episodes already made, about Masao Adachi, René Vautier, Arthur McCaig, get 13 international awards. She also works with Jean-Luc Godard (2015-present, Le Livre d’image, Special Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival, 2018), Jacques Kebadian (2016-present), and worked for Jean-Gabriel Périot, Chantal Akerman.
She published notable works, such as De la Figure en général et du Corps en particulier. L'invention figurative au cinéma (1998), Abel Ferrara (2007), Traitement du Lumpenproletariat par le cinéma d’avant-garde (2007), Cinéma d'avant-garde Mode d'emploi (2012), «‘We support everything since the dawn of time that has struggled and still struggles.’ Introduction to lettrist cinema » (2015), Jean-Luc Godard théoricien des images (2015), and Manifestations (2019). She is the editor or co-editor of La Vie nouvelle/nouvelle Vision (2004), Jean-Luc Godard : Documents (2006), Biotope de João Tabarra (2015), Clarisse Hahn. Politics of Presence (2018), Jocelyne Saab. Zones of War (2018), Jeune, dure et pure. Une histoire du cinéma d’avant-garde et expérimental en France (2001), Jean-Luc Godard : Documents (2006), Jean Epstein. Bonjour Cinéma und andere Schriften zum Kino (2008), Le cinéma critique. De l’argentique au numérique, voies et formes de l’objection visuelle (2010), Cinémas libertaires : « Au service des forces de transgression et de révolte » (2015), Raymonde Carasco et Régis Hébraud À L’Œuvre (2016). She is also the scientific editor of the writings of Masao Adachi (Rouge profond, 2012), Jean Epstein, Edouard de Laurot.
