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ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 137-163Publisher
DE GRUYTER POLAND SP ZOO
DOI: 10.1515/ausfm-2018-0008
Keywords
found footage film; socialist past; medium-specific noise; haptic visuality; intermediality
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- Ministry of National Education, CNCS - UEFISCDI Romania [PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0418]
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This article examines how sensual aspects of the moving image, such as visual errors, blurring and technical disturbances are employed in found footage films dealing with Eastern European socialist past and the regime changing events. In the selected films Eastern European socialist visual culture is reworked with the cinematic practices of the post-media age in order to shape the spectators' historical consciousness. By deliberate reframing and intensifying the medium-specific noises of the archival sources, or by an artificially created visual precariousness a new type of spectatorial awareness is created. The article delineates four different strategies through which the mediality of the recycled archival footage is brought to the fore and made operational (engaging the senses of its viewers).(1)
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