Accidental Archivism

Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past (book in English)

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Edited by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Vinzenz Hediger

Type

Studies

Subject

History of Cinema

Keywords

archives, history of cinema

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Meson Press

Collection

Configurations of Film

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 492 pages
6 ¾ x 9 ½ inches (17 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-3-957960-53-5

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Book Presentation:
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.