What do we mean by practices of the 7th art? Those adopted by film-makers and film producers, spectators, critics and instructors.
Frédéric Sojcher reveals the inadequacies of the European audiovisual policy and tackles the challenges encountered by the French cinema from a new angle. He identifies the cultural and economic stakes of film distribution and relates the Belgian cinema's heroic struggle to survive.
As he mentions the various films he has directed (with Lorànt Deutsch, Patrick Chesnais, Serge Gainsbourg, Michael Lonsdale, Micheline Presle, etc.), he asks questions which range far beyond his own film repertoire. Pratiques du cinéma reads like a history of films from their inception to their reception.

Film-maker Frédéric Sojcher heads a Masters programme in screen writing and film direction and production at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne