Bergala, A;
(2025)
A pedagogy of contagion.
Film Education Journal
, 8
(2)
, Article 2. 10.14324/FEJ.08.2.02.
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Abstract
In this essay Alain Bergala, one of the co-founders of Le cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse (CCAJ) reflects on thirty years of the film education project, exploring its distinctive pedagogy rooted in community, shared cinematic references and intergenerational exchange. Bergala argues that true film education emerges not from programmes which privilege metrics and evaluation or outcome-based frameworks, but through the ‘contagion’ of taste, memory and lived encounters with cinema. Drawing on experiences with filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami, Chantal Akerman and Agnès Varda, he highlights the transformative potential of films that resist easy assimilation, enabling participants to discover cinema as ‘their thing’ – a personal compass, cultural inheritance and enduring source of creative identity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A pedagogy of contagion |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/FEJ.08.2.02 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/FEJ.08.2.02. |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 2025, Alain Bergala. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/FEJ.08.2.02. |
| Keywords: | Le cinéma de cent ans de jeunesse, film education, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10219748 |
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