ARCHIVEOLOGY/ WALTER BENJAMIN AND ARCHIVAL FILM PRACTICES

C. Russell uses the work of Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveologythe reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakersprovides ways to imagine the past and the future. C. Russell uses the work of Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveologythe reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakersprovides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not f unction simply as a place where moving images are pre...[Read more]