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Published: 02 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024576-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9360-2
Published: 22 October 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022138-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2213-8
..., while seemingly adhering to documentary practices by cinematically capturing the destruction of the social and spatial-urban condition of Palestinian life in Jaffa, are more accurately a cinematic investigation of the image archive of Jaffa. By recycling and manipulating footage from Israeli films...
Published: 01 January 1999
DOI: 10.1215/9780822396680-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9668-0
Published: 05 September 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822390206-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9020-6
Book Chapter

By Sarah Nuttall, Mark Gevisser
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 01 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059417-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5941-7
... The chapter discusses Penny Siopis’s “tentacular art,” beginning with She Breathes Water and considering other cameo appearances of the octopus figure/footage in previous films and well as the significance of water, swimming, and diving in Siopis’s film work. A close reading of Obscure White...
Published: 03 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373414-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7341-4
... Chapter 4 moves past professional documentaries to consider amateur videos that circulate online. It analyzes two violent 2009 deaths that were each captured by multiple mobile phone cameras, with footage posted on YouTube. The victims were Oscar Grant, a young Black man killed in Oakland...
Published: 03 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373414-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7341-4
... are themselves mortal. While an aura of death denial pervades the public’s attitude toward digital recordings—thought immortal, never to curl and decay like celluloid film—the files that store death footage face their own deaths through, for example, neglect in the endless process of migration to new formats...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060420-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6042-0
... unique musical score—it uses audio recordings from the bodycam and bystander footage—as well as by way of its musical dramaturgy. In the end, the piece opens an alternate way of engaging this event of antiblack brutality/murder as a mere passive observer in an antiblack world, asking listeners to listen...
Series: Thought in the Act
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027782-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2778-2
... of military drone footage in the Pentagon and Google's Project Maven initiative; the Triple Chaser activist aesthetic investigation by Forensic Architecture; and artistic attempts to bear witness to data centers, machine learning algorithms, and artificial intelligence. machinic affect artificial...
Book Chapter

By Homay King
Published: 02 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375159-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7515-9
...-four-hour video installation made entirely of found footage of clocks and references to the time. The answer to the question “Is this clock analog or digital?” unsolders these two terms from their medium-specific connotations and reveals them to be less fully opposed than one might think. time...
Book Chapter

By Geoffrey M. White
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374435-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7443-5
... history, is never fixed in words or images. Listening to discussions of the film and arguments about reasons to change or retain the original footage exposes not only warring narratives, but warring historiographies and underlying assumptions about the moral work of film in the memorial context...
Series: a Camera Obscura Book
Published: 19 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373100-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7310-0
... that this theatrical convention associated with the professional reporter has been transformed into a humanitarian testimonial convention. The chapter undertakes a comparative analysis of Anderson Cooper’s live coverage of Hurricane Katrina and Trouble the Water (2008), a film featuring live eyewitness footage...
Published: 03 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373414-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7341-4
... execution films, images from Nazi concentration camps, home movie footage of President Kennedy’s assassination, and television news coverage of the Vietnam War—through their struggle to capture the “moment of death.” It argues that such attempts form a collective and enduring fantasy for documentarians...
Book Chapter

By Matthew Omelsky
Published: 03 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027508-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2750-8
... into their filmic architectures. Using archival newsreel footage, ambient electronic music, voice-over narration, and other features, Black Audio cinematically locates an ephemeral beyond-world of release in Handsworth ’s dialectical “third space” of montage and in Twilight ’s nondiegetic queer tableaux...
Book Chapter

By Mary R. Desjardins
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 09 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376033-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7603-3
... star recyclings take place. This chapter examines star recyclings circulated by online venues that rely on user-generated content. While many video mash-ups on YouTube featuring past stars use found footage and collage strategies reminiscent of the avant-garde films discussed in chapter 5, and within...
Book Chapter

By Sarah Nuttall, Laura Rascaroli
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 01 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059417-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5941-7
... otherwise. Combining found footage with sound and subtitles, her films tell untold or censored histories that are markedly alternative. They speak to auto/biographical concerns and to instances of colonialism, war, apartheid, migration, globalization, and ecological crisis, being at the same time...
Published: 03 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373414-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7341-4
... this structure draws. Culled from ten thousand hours of digital video, the startling suicide footage included in The Bridge made newly visible a type of highly public dying that had remained socially and politically invisible for decades. While the film’s harshest critics condemned the mere act of recording...
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 01 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059417-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5941-7
... by the contributors to the book itself: writers, scholars, curators, filmmakers, and artists. The introduction draws out the signal arguments of each chapter to offer the reader an overview of the emerging field of Siopis scholarship and engagement. Penny Siopis’s almost exclusive use of found footage, her refusal...
Book Chapter

By Sarah Nuttall, Griselda Pollock
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 01 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059417-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5941-7
... does not aestheticize trauma and suffering; rather Siopis’s use of found home movie footage works to riddle this historical trauma into critical consciousness that, following Ettinger, might become a “transport-station of trauma.” Siopis’s film work uncannily echoes the process, it is argued...