Posts Tagged ‘ archive ’
I had a real scare on Tuesday, that has revealed to me my own stupidity. “What took you so long?” you may ask. Anyway, let me preface this story: I have been on an interesting journey whilst at the NWFA. I have begun to appreciate the value of archiving of future generations, and the kind [ READ MORE ]
At the AV10 Recycled Film Symposium, Rick Prelinger suggested that “everyone is their own archivist” and framed archival practice as a kind of pro-active and creative selection process rather than an objective hoarding exercise. Rather than being a “place where films go to die” the archive is a “point of origin”. I started to think [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been thinking about the way film as a medium is traditionally preserved and archived compared to folk music. With film, through the proper care and preservation in the right conditions, the physical images can remain intact for many years. The ideas held within those images can be copied in high fidelity to newer mediums [ READ MORE ]
The audience watch a film from the archive. They are encouraged to hold up their phones / cameras to record a section from the archive, to steal it. As they do, a live camera feed behind them captures this action, re-incorporating it into the live film. The act of theft becomes part of the film [ READ MORE ]
I am just watching the beginning of ‘Requiem for Detroit‘ and am all ready feeling that twinge of excitement and anxiety of seeing someone use film projected in space. This isn’t a new 3D mapping onto buildings animation, but something far simpler and story led. The opening sequence features archive film (1960s?) of a presenter [ READ MORE ]
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