Emeraude Nicolas Born in 1972, she is the daughter of the musician Gilles Nicolas and the writer-writer Dominique Cozette. She is now a graphic designer and artistic director for luxury brands and it is after several collaborations with publishing houses that the idea of this book appeared to her.

Director of the Cinémathèque française from 1991 to 2000, and since then responsible for the multidisciplinary projects of the Center Georges Pompidou. Defends the cinema of authors like: Jean-Marie Straub, Michael Snow as well as Rossellini or Godard, it reaffirms that the invention of the cinema is a matter of author and artist. He affirms, more firmly than in his previous book, Le cinéma, a modern art, an approach to cinema based on figurative motives (idle, sculpted, frozen …), draws a first assessment of the experience of his Exhibition Hitchcock and art, and comments on contemporary attempts to move the cinema from its traditional site, from the room to the museum’s rails.

Azoury Philippe is a French journalist and film critic born in 1971. Collaborator of Cahiers du Cinema since 1998, Philippe Azoury also signed texts for Liberation, Les Inrockuptibles and Vogue1. But also to the biannual journal dedicated to cinema Capricci. He currently works for Obsession, the cultural supplement of the New Observateur1.
He is the author of several books of interviews and monographs cinéasts, and is arguably a writer passionate about cinema as a journalist.