Stories from the Archive.

STORIES FROM THE ARCHIVE: HISTORY, REPRESENTATION, AND IDENTITY includes a variety of stories shot in, about, and using archives and archival materials. The films explore the meanings and relationships imbedded in material objects and images and raise questions about how images are created, and circ...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

1. Verfasser:

Educational Resources, Documentary

Format:

Elektronisch Film

Sprache:

Englisch

Veröffentlicht:

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Documentary Educational Resources, 2019.
Kanopy Streaming, 2020.

Zusammenfassung:

STORIES FROM THE ARCHIVE: HISTORY, REPRESENTATION, AND IDENTITY includes a variety of stories shot in, about, and using archives and archival materials. The films explore the meanings and relationships imbedded in material objects and images and raise questions about how images are created, and circulated. Topics range from the contemporary, yet controversial art practice of a pastor who digitally depicts centuries-old Russian Orthodox iconography; the hybrid, poetic uncovering of scientists' journals documenting their collecting practices at Natural History Museums over a century ago; written correspondence between a European Jewish couple following WWII, uncovered by the couples' own grandchild; the use of forensic and photographic evidence to trace Spain's disappeared during the Franco regime; to archival footage and images used to evoke a once-vibrant dance studio in New York City's Hell's Kitchen. The films in this compilation offer different strategies for bringing life to archival materials. The filmmakers variously draw on letters, archival and found footage, and photography. They present letters and journals through voice-over and narration, engage stylized approaches to filming archival collections and objects, and recontextualize historical objects through contemporary interviews, and use "process film" sequences to explore the labor behind the creation of various types of artifacts.

Umfang:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Anmerkungen:

Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.

Format Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Schlagworte:

Anthropology.

Documentary films.

Links:

A Kanopy streaming video