Slippery Screenings presents: Archive Fever

Only a few decades after the medium’s birth, filmmakers had already begun to work with pre-existing material. Archive Fever traces this impulse across a century of found footage, collage films, archival films, and video works, revealing how filmmakers have reimagined the archive as both a source and idea of history. Beginning with Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart (1936) and moving through the postwar essay film, Soviet montage, and three end-of-the-century salvos, the program explores how the reuse of film prompted new ways of thinking about history and the moving image.

Featuring found footage and archive-based films by Joseph Cornell, Bruce Conner, Ken Jacobs, Artavazd Peleshyan, Alain Resnais, Peter Tscherkassky, William E. Jones, and John Akomfrah.

* Still image: Our Century (Artavazd Peleshyan, 1983).

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