Henri Arraes Gervaiseau

Professor titular

Universidade de São Paulo

BR

Biographie

Henri Arraes Gervaiseau is Professor of Audiovisual Documentary at the Universidade de São Paulo and independent movie maker. His artistic works and scientific publications focus on transnational displacements as well on documentary classic and essayistic films and vídeos. He is author of O abrigo do tempo: abordagens cinematográficas da passagem do tempo (SP: Alameda 2012) and of several documentary and essayistic films and vídeos.

Articles (1)

enptHenri Arraes Gervaiseau

Immigrants in New York: Cinematographic Representations (1898-1914)

Statue of Liberty, a small film of approximately fifty seconds produced by the Thomas Edison Company, can be considered one of the first cinematographic representations of the arrival of a transatlantic ship in New York.