Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned to oblivion. Through a comparison of recent international case studies from festivals, museums, and gallery spaces, the book analyzes their new contexts, and describes the affective reception of those events. The study asks: what is the relationship between an aesthetic experience and memory at the point where film archives, cinema, and exhibition practices intersect? What can we learn from re-screenings, re-enactments, and found footage works, that are using archival material? How does the affective experience of the images, sounds and music resonate today? Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects proposes a theoretical framework from the perspective of the performative practice of programming, curating, and reconstructing, bringing in insights from original interviews with cultural agents together with an interdisciplinary academic discourse.
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Experimental Cinema, Expanded Cinema, and Artist's Film
- Chapter 1. Access: Agents, Archives
- Archive - Whether to preserve or to show
- Programming - Historiography in the making
- Curating - Montage of contexts
- Case study: Arsenal – Living Archive Project, Berlin
- Expanded cinema - Expanded consciousness and event
- Case study: Forum Expanded, Berlin Film Festival
- Case study: International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
- Case study: Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone
- Archival impulse - Archive fever
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2. Affect: Performance, Audience
- Black box and white cube
- Case study: Anthology Film Archives, New York
- Case study: LUX, Light Industry, Filmforum, LaborBerlin
- Case study: Harun Farocki
- Case study: Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam
- Aesthetic experience
- Music in film studies
- Sensual pleasure
- Case study: Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam
- Case study: Psychedelia and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
- Programming affects
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3. Reconstruction: Memory and Audio-Visual Heritage
- Historiography - Films that make history
- Case study: The Realm of Possibilities 4 - Access: Diamonds, Enter, Fin
- Documents - Testifying the past
- Found footage - Sampling and remixing images and music
- Experimental music videos in museums
- Case study Deutsches Filminstitut Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
- Audio-visual heritage
- Expanded heritage
- Memory - Joyful archive of experiences
- Experimental films and philosophy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Outlook
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- General bibliography
- Index