Monographs
2026 Cerecina, I., Assembly Lines: Montage in Post-war French Film. Under contract at University of Minnesota Press. Final manuscript submitted. Projected publication date: February 2026.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
2023 Cerecina, I., Mroz, M., “A Montage of Surviving Images: Deportation footage in Varsovie, quand même… (1954) and Night and Fog (1956),” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, Vol. 63, Nos. 1-2, Spring/Fall 2022, pp. 103-124. (6,000 words. Multi-media piece; contributed three one-minute and one two-minute video essays and half of written text)
– Excerpt from peer review: ‘engages with a very relevant area of image studies, in particularly engrossing detail, and using material (the Bellon film) which is both significant and much under-researched.’
2022 Cerecina, I., ““The very palpitation of life!”: The Leaves Are Stirring in Context,” Camera Obscura, issue 111, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2022, pp. 69-85. (6,300 words)
– Excerpt from peer review: ‘Although Camera Obscura typically does not publish translations, this piece represents a significant contribution, fitting for CO’s mission, addressing a gap in archival feminist film theory.’
2022 Cerecina, I., “The Leaves Are Stirring [Translation of Nicole Vedrès, “Les feuilles bougent,” 1948]”, Camera Obscura, issue 111, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2022, pp. 59-67. (2,700 words)
2022 Cerecina, I., “New Legibilities: Re-Thinking Postwar French Film with Nicole Vedrès’ La Vie commence demain (1950).” Screen, 63/2 (Summer 2022), pp. 158-181. (9,100 words)
-Excerpt from peer review: ‘addresses a significant blindspot in cinema history [that] deepens and enriches our understanding of postwar French cinema… [The article] will be of substantial interest to anyone working on film history, montage theory, women’s films, compilation films, or documentary. In short, it is an excellent piece.” Total views: 1113. 212 PDF downloads. Second-most in issue. (figures as at 07/02/2025)
2022 Cerecina, I., Fielke, G., “Metahistory on Video: Hollis Frampton in the Histoire(s),” Senses of Cinema, January 2022, Issue 100 (Special Dossier: “Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard”). (5000 words)
Reviews of scholarly monographs
2025 Cerecina, I. “The Ethnographic Optic by Laure Astourian,” Studies in French Cinema (forthcoming Summer 2025).
2022 Cerecina, I., “The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973) by Daniel Fairfax,” Screen, 63/2 (Summer 2022), pp. 254-257.
2020 Cerecina, I., “Engaged Vision: Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave, by Steven Ungar,” Senses of Cinema, Issue 95, July 2020.
Conference papers
2025 “Montage, montage, montazh: the career of a word,” Potemkin @ 100, University of Sydney, 17-18 December, 2025.
2025 “Rereading Nicole Vedrès: Montage, Memory, and the Future of French Non-fiction Film,” Australian Society for French Studies, University of Newcastle, Australia. 9-12 December, 2025.
2025 “Teaching Film Analysis: A (brief) history and some notes for the future,” Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association, University of Wollongong, Australia. 25-27 November, 2025.
2022 “Montage révélateur : La Vie commence demain de Nicole Vedrès,” Chris Marker : écrivain en premier, Université Gustave Eiffel (Paris, France). 9 June 2022.
2021 “Montage as Art Historical Method: Malraux, Resnais and the Animation of Culture,” Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), Sydney, Australia. 10 December 2021. Panel convenor: Ivan Cerecina (with Giles Fielke). Panel title: “Montage in a Single Shot.”
2017 “Alain Resnais’ Films on Painting and the French Post-War Popular Art History Project,” European Conference on Media, Communication & Film in Brighton, United Kingdom. 11 July, 2017
2016 “Mapping Art History: Three Films on Painting by Alain Resnais,” Australian Society for French Studies conference, Adelaide, Australia. 4 December 2016.
2016 “Mario Ruspoli, Georges Franju: Two Archival Discoveries,” The University of Sydney Film Studies Higher Degree Research Symposium, Sydney, Australia. 30 September, 2016. Helped to organise symposium with Dr. Richard Smith (The University of Sydney). Presented paper then introduced and screened two post-war French short films that I acquired from Parisian film archives and subtitled in English.
2015 “Tracing the caméra-stylo from Astruc to de Gaulle, 1946-1958,” Camera-Stylo: Intersections in Cinema and Literature conference, Sydney, Australia. 8 November, 2015
Other published articles, film reviews, interviews
Selection of long form essays and film reviews
2025 Cerecina, I., “An Interview with Christian Byers,” Senses of Cinema, Issue 115, November 2025.
2022 Cerecina, I., “Reigniting Campus Life with Thera-films”, ACE Mag, Issue 1, December 2022. (2,500 words). Interview with USYD Film Studies partners about campus film screening initiative.
2022 Cerecina, I. and Leanne Stevenson, ““This is not business as usual”: Belonging in the teaching team,” Online by Design (USYD Educational Innovation and Design online resource). 10 February, 2022. (3,000 words)
2018 Cerecina, I., “The Language of the Image: Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Cantrills,” 4:3, August 4, 2018 (3,000 words)
2018 Cerecina, I., “Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Cantrills: The Language of the Image – An Interview with Curators Audrey Lam and Keegan O’Connor,” 4:3, June 29, 2018 (4,500 words)
2018 Cerecina, I., “In the Realm of Perfection – An Interview with Julien Faraut”, 4:3, April 3, 2018. (5,500 words). Interview conducted in French and self-translated for English publication.
2017 Cerecina, I., “Fixed Sound – An Interview with Michel Chion,” 4:3, August 15, 2017 (4,500 words). Interview conducted in French and self-translated for English publication.
2017 Cerecina, I., “Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” 4:3, July 17, 2017 (2,000 words)
2017 Cerecina, I. “Austerlitz,” 4:3, June 11, 2017 (1,500 words)
2017 Cerecina, I., “Off Frame A.K.A. Revolution Until Victory: An Interview with Director Mohanad Yaqubi,” 4:3, April 3, 2017 (4,500 words)
2017 Cerecina, I. “Review: Horse Money (Cavalo Dinheiro), directed by Pedro Costa (Portugal, 2014).” Philament: An Online Journal of Literature, Arts, and Culture, Vol. 22, 2017.
2016 Cerecina, I., “No Home Movie,” 4:3, June 20, 2016 (1,500 words). Winner of AFCA award for Best Review of an Individual Non-Australian film, March, 2017.
