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Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema's Futures with Remnants of the Past
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Abstract
In the digital media ecology, archives are changing. Artists, curators, critics and scholars assume the role of accidental archivists. They shape cinema's futures by salvaging precarious repositories and making them matter in new ways. In the process, the cinema's public, a democratic body seemingly... view more
In the digital media ecology, archives are changing. Artists, curators, critics and scholars assume the role of accidental archivists. They shape cinema's futures by salvaging precarious repositories and making them matter in new ways. In the process, the cinema's public, a democratic body seemingly scattered about platforms and niches in a post-pandemic world, re-emerges as a political force. 'Accidental Archivism' brings together programmatic statements and proposals to explore an artistic space between archiving and activism, a space where remnants of the past become the building blocks of new ways of making, showing, teaching and thinking cinema.... view less
Keywords
cinema; film; art; video; cultural heritage; archives
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
meson press
City
Lüneburg
Page/Pages
492 p.
Series
Configurations of Film Series
ISBN
978-3-95796-054-2
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed