Class Appropriation of Archive Film Footage: Creative Memory

Practice of the vitality of the archive not as an inert documentation, but as a creative material for analysis and art practice in a way that the documented events the archive refers do not fall into oblivion, in a way that they will be constantly activated.

Theory

1. Introduction: the archival turn
2. The archive as a living organism
3. The traces of time: the “found footage”
4. The archive as main material for artistic creation
5. The use of the archive to animate and perform possible futures
6. Analysis of examples: Harum Farocki, Jean-Luc Godard, Bill Morrison, Peter Delpeut, Gustav Deutch, Peter Tcherkassy, Pietro Marcello ...

Practice

Elaboration of a n essay-film / fiction or documentary with audio visual material from archives

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