Yes, I agree that the mediality of the thing must have radically different effects on differently situated viewers (with respect to age, surely also gender, class, ethnic background, etc.). Looking forward to your post! ...
I've been thinking a lot about cameras and screens as central sites of the transformation of moving-image media from cinematic to post-cinematic forms. This contrasts with the more common focus on editing-- which clearly has become more frenetic in m ...
These ideas about post-cinematic cameras and screens are developed further in a chapter I've written for the book that Julia Leyda and I are co-editing:_Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film_, which will be coming out soon as an open-access volum ...
Thanks for posting, Leo! Yes, I agree completely that it is very important to bear in mind the distinction between found footage as an experimental practice (with a history of its own) and the faux found footage genre that is so popular today (though I ke ...
It might also be worth mentioning, as I already did over on FB, that the original prompt for the theme week (to which my video essay and post here responded) spoke of "Found Footage Video Aesthetics"-- which I interpreted to include the appropri ...
Great post, Leo, which brings a very different perspective to the week's discussion. A number of things you point out make Scratch seem very similar to some of the conflicting impulses in more recent digital-based work utilizing datamoshing, databend ...
It's interesting to think about this in the context of a theme week on found footage aesthetics. It's almost as if this use of videocassette adds yet another layer of faux-ness to the faux found footage aesthetic that we've been talking abo ...
That's a great quote, Anthony, and it brings out another aspect that interests me in many of the films and media objects that we've been talking about. This idea that "it can be shot on a cell phone" (but the real work is in making it ...
Thanks for your comment, Laura, which raises a lot of important issues. I can certainly understand your point about containing the horror through this historical (and indeed media-historical) distance that VHS introduces. My own experience of the film is ...
Yes, you're raising a very interesting point here. I wonder, too, how such a film (and the format) either works or doesn't work (or perhaps just works in a different way) for a younger generation of viewers. I can only speculate, but I would be ...
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