Professor of Cinematographic Studies at La Sorbonne, programmer at the Cinémathèque Française and theoretical writer. Among her publications, De la Figuer en général et du Corps en particulier stand out. L'invention figurative au cinéma (1998), Abel Ferrara (2007), Traitement du Lumpenproletariat par le cinéma d'avant-garde (2007) and Jean-Luc Godard theoricien des images (2014), among others. She is also the co-editor of the writings of Masao Adachi and Jean Epstein and has organized numerous retrospectives such as Jeune, dure et pure. A history of French avant-garde cinema for the Cinémathèque Française (2000).