constance-mdc brings together my writings on moving image culture — cinema, media art, contemporary art, and online media — over four decades.

The archive collects essays, reviews, and interviews published from the 1980s onward, in journals, magazines, websites, exhibition catalogues, and anthologies. Texts appear in their original languages — principally English and French.

The rubriques are an ongoing space for new shorter writing.

MDC is a curated selection of texts taken from the nine issues of the journal Mondes du Cinéma.

Constance publishes new essays and interviews, following a similar editorial line to MDC.

AGM will explore anime, gaming, and manga.

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Stephen Sarrazin is a film and moving image critic, curator, and professor based in Tokyo, working between Tokyo and Paris. He lectured at Paris 8 University from 1990 to 2024, and was Visiting Professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts and Aoyama University. He has guest-lectured at Columbia University, New York University, SUNY Buffalo, the Ontario College of Art and Design, Yale, Oxford, and Edinburgh, as well as numerous institutions across Asia.
He has contributed to Art Press, Flash Art, Composite Japan, Cahiers du cinéma, Parachute, HK Extrême Orient, and InterCommunication. He is co-editor in chief of Mondes du Cinéma, a film and media art journal published in France by Lettmotif (2013–2018), and now leads Constance, its forthcoming online continuation.
His books include a monograph on artist Gary Hill (I Believe It Is an Image, Watari-um, 1992), Surfing the Medium (Chimaera, 1993), and Réponses du cinéma japonais (Lettmotif, 2014), a collection of essays and interviews on contemporary Japanese cinema. He co-edited and contributed to Mamoru Oshii Rencontres (Les Moutons Electriques, 2021). He edited the first French-language monograph on Lynn Hershman Leeson, and published Méandres et Médias, a monograph on media artist John Sanborn. In 2022, he curated Between Order and Entropy: The Media Art of John Sanborn at ZKM, Karlsruhe, and co-edited, with Peter Weibel, an accompanying volume published by Hatje Cantz in 2023.
He has curated installation exhibitions and programmed video art screenings across Europe and Japan for nearly three decades, in museums, galleries, and independent art spaces. Notable collaborations with artists include Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Shelly Silver, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Tony Oursler, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Pascal Lièvre, Mako Idemitsu, and John Sanborn. He is currently working on three books — one on women’s voices in Japanese cinema, another on the history of exclusion in video and media art between 1980 and 2000, and lastly, one of the history of Japanese cinema as told by France.

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