Valérie Pozner is research director, member of THALIM (Théorie et Histoire des Arts et des Littératures de la Modernité), CNRS, Paris, and associated member of CERCEC (Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies). A specialist in Russian and Soviet Film history, she has conducted several projects related to the visual history of Jews in the Soviet Union, and the visual history of the Holocaust (Kinojudaica, Les representations des Juifs dans le cinéma de Russie et d’Union soviétique des années, 2012). She also coordinated the collective project “CINESOV 1939–1945” (Soviet Cinema at War, 1939–1949), which gave the exhibition “Filming the War. Soviet cameras confront the Holocaust, 1941–1946” (2015), the collective volume
Perezhit’ vojnu. Kinoindustrija v SSSR 1939–1949 (Moscow, 2018), an issue of the online journal “Conserveries mémorielles” on Soviet Film Propaganda during WWII, and the collective volume Le Cinéma soviétique en guerre (2025). She has also translated into French and published the main texts about cinema and film production by Lev Kuleshov, Boris Barnet, Viktor Shklovsky and the formalists. Among her recent publications, Gorki au cinématographe (2023), Victor Chklovski, Lettres à Elsa (2023), L’Art dans la vie! Le constructivisme soviétique dans les textes (2024). She is the former director of the French Research Center in Moscow (2006–2008, 2021-2022).
