Fragment - Fetish - Photography

• Authors: Michalowska M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aurhoress considers the thesis that an affinity between film and photography should not be sought in the linear order of the technological development of the medium but in the recalling of images by memory. Victor Burgin's text 'The Remembered Film' and Roland Barthes's 'Upon Leaving the Movie Theatre' provide the inspiration for the article. Burgin and Barthes argue that films begin to be regarded not as a coherent narrative continuum but as a 'sequence of images'. We are in the process of being 'trapped by the image' whereas the viewer begins to perceive a scene recorded by the photographic or cinematic medium as if it were part of his own experience. She examines the cinematic and photographic realisations of found footage (films by Bill Morisson, Lewis Klahr, photos of Friedl Kubelka and Andrzej P. Bator). A counterpoint for these audiovisual productions is William Gibson's novel 'Pattern Recognition' (2003) about film clips circulating in the Net. Lacking narrative linearity, the video files become the source of search for identity of Net users. These examples lead to the conclusion that in modern culture, photography and film cease to constitute only a component of specific artistic practice. When absorbed by human memory, they serve to express individual experiences.

Keywords

EN

FOUND FOOTAGE FILMS

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 54-55
• Pages: 255-266
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michalowska M.

• M. Michalowska, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Kulturoznawstwa, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89, 60-568 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01813886