Archival Spaces 265 Love and Death in “ism” Cinema Uploaded 19 March 2021 I’m reading and reviewing for a German publication an excellent new book on Israeli cinema, Projecting the Nation. History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen (2020) by Eran Kaplan. I was particularly struck by a line in his chapter on Eros: “The real fulfillmentContinue reading “265: Love & Death in Cinema”
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264: Restored Avant-Garde Films (NL)
Archival Spaces 264 Restored Avant-Garde Films from the Netherlands Uploaded 5 March 2021 Between February 24 and March 9, 2021, the Eye Museum, Amsterdam and Anthology Film Archives, New York, are presenting a streamed film program, “THERE ARE NO RULES!: RESTORED AND REVISITED AVANT-GARDE FILMS FROM THE NETHERLANDS,” co-curated by Simona Monizza, Mark-Paul Meyer andContinue reading “264: Restored Avant-Garde Films (NL)”
263: Jaimie Baron: Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
Archival Spaces 263 Jaimie Baron: Reuse, Misuse, Abuse Uploaded 19 February 2021 In her first book, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014), Jaimie Baron analyzes the effects of appropriating archival film and video footage on historical representation. How do the meanings of archival images change when they are inserted into new contexts? InContinue reading “263: Jaimie Baron: Reuse, Misuse, Abuse”
262: International Holocaust Day
Archival Spaces 262 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Uploaded 5 February 2021 On 1 November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” in order to commemorate the liberation by Soviet Russian forces of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945. According to the website of theContinue reading “262: International Holocaust Day”