L’Image-Exil: L’expérience du déplacement au cinéma d’après Gilles Deleuze et Maurice Blanchot
Published in French by Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2026.

How can cinema represent an experience that resists language? Exile—lived through loss, uprooting, and displacement—becomes, in cinema, a site of formal and sensory reinvention. The Exile-Image explores the power of the cinematic image to give form to this limit-experience. Drawing on several years of research, the book examines the becoming of the image through the work of four major filmmakers of world cinema: Walter Salles, Andrei Tarkovsky, Glauber Rocha, and Wim Wenders. In dialogue with Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Blanchot, Henri Bergson, Giorgio Agamben, and Walter Benjamin, it develops the concept of the Exile-Image at the intersection of visibility and absence, offering a new way of thinking about displacement, memory, alterity, and the contemporary condition of human mobility.

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