French composer of experimental music and a theoretician and teacher of audio-visual relationships. His book "L’audio-vision. Son et image au cinéma," originally published in France in 1990, is critically acclaimed as the definitive book on the relations between sound and image in film. Link to Wikipedia biography
Born: Thu Jan 16 1947 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Birthplace: Creil, France
Chion Michel is a French film critic, historian, and theorist. He has written extensively on film history, theory, and criticism, and has also worked as a curator and exhibition designer.
Michel is a member of the editorial board of the journal "Trafic" and has taught at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and the École nationale supérieure des métiers de l'image et du son (ENS Louis-Lumière).