Cyril Neyrat has worked as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma and Vertigo. He has taught cinema at Paris 3, Paris 7 and HEAD-Geneva, and continues to lecture at several art and film schools. In addition to numerous articles and critical essays published in catalogs and collective works, he is the author of books based on long conversations with filmmakers (Pedro Costa, Jean-Claude Rousseau, Albert Serra, Pierre Creton). He is also associate editor of Éditions de l’œil (among others, Pedro Costa. Matériaux, with Luc Chessel (ed.), 2022). He was a resident at the Académie de France in Rome (Villa Médicis) in 2009-2010. Between 2019 and 2023, he worked in a home for autistic adults. A member of the FIDMarseille selection committee (2006-2009, and since 2019), he was Artistic Coordinator of the festival in 2022 and 2023.
He has been appointed Artistic Director of FIDMarseille in 2023.