A well-known historian of early cinema and a pioneer in film narratology, in his current research André Gaudreault is especially interested in the advent of editing, in the phenomenon of opera broadcasts in movie theatres, in technological innovations seen from an “archaeological” perspective and in the impact of the digital on the media universe. He is one of the five founding members of the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema (Domitor), which he led, as the first elected president, from 1985 to 1994. In 1992 he founded, and has led since, the Groupe de recherche sur l’avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique (GRAFICS); from 1997 to 2005 he was also head of another interdisciplinary and inter-university research infrastructure based at the Université de Montréal, the Centre for Research on Intermediality (CRI), of which he was one of the four founders. In 2010, at the Université de Montréal, he founded with the filmmaker and producer Denis Héroux the Observatoire du cinéma au Québec (OCQ), a unique scholarly crossroads whose goal is to promote exchanges between film practitioners and theorists. He is also the director and one of the founders of the International Research Partnership on Cinema Techniques and Technologies (TECHNÈS), which since 2012 has brought together eighteen partners and forty-five researchers from various countries whose goal is to reintroduce the technical element into scholarly thinking about cinema in order to better understand technological change and its interactions with film theory, aesthetics and practices. In 2016, he founded the Laboratoire CinéMédias, an infrastructure attached to the Canada Research Chair in Film and Media Studies, which encompasses, in addition to TECHNÈS, GRAFICS  and the OCQ, the Programme de recherche sur l’archéologie et la généalogie du montage/editing (PRAGM/e).