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It offers theoretical, analytical and informative content related to found footage filmmaking practices. FFM fills the void created by the fact that there has not been, up to this time, any forum for the collection and dissemination of information, critical thinking, and discussion of found footage cinema including all its manifestations: recycled cinema, essay film, collage film, compilation film, archival cinema, mash-up…
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Celluloid Underground
By Ehsan Khoshbakht, 2023
Close-Up Cinema, London, UK
June 16, 2024
If there’s anyone who understands the urgency of preserving film heritage, it is undoubtedly Ehsan Khoshbakht, director of Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato, the most important festival for rediscovering cinema from the past. In his second feature film as director, Khoshbakht introduces us to Ahmad Jurghanian, a collector who hid thousands of films to prevent them from being destroyed by the Iranian Regime. ‘Cellulloid Underground’ follows the friendship between two inveterate film lovers, demonstrating the power that art holds for both bonding people together and as a weapon of resistance against authoritarianism and collective amnesia. Of course, the film features the meticulous labor of resurrecting forgotten footage in all its splendor. Fascinating images from essential film work that, thanks to figures like Khoshbakht, continues to amaze us with its resplendent past.
Followed by Q&A with Ehsan Khoshbakht
Unarchive Found Footage Fest
Rome, Italy
May 28 to June 2, 2024
The second edition of Unarchive Found Footage Film Fest is about to begin.
Featuring works by Vlad Petri, Bill Morrison, Kamal Aljafari, Graeme Arnfield, Alexander Markov, Cécile Fontaine, Annika Mayer, Emilie Pitoiset, Ken Jacobs, Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, Mathias Müller, Stefanie Weberhofer, TT Takemoto, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Gabriele Biasi, Federica Foglia, Jyoti Mistry, Sergei Loznitsa, Ulises de la Orden, Sanaz Sohrabi, David Rimmer, Martin Arnold, Henri Stork, Daniel Eisenberg, Adrian Brunel, and many, many others.
* Film strip from ‘Golf’ (Raphael Montañez Ortiz, 1957).
Festival Internacional de Cinema - IndieLisboa IFF
Lisbon, Portugal
May 23 to June 2, 2024
One of the greatest pleasures in independent film these days, shortly, in IndieLisboa.
Featuring found footage and archival films by Margarida Rêgo, Charlie Shackleton, Mohanad Yaqubi, Michaela Taschek, Sandra Wollner and Britta Schoening, Jean-Claude Taki and Alexandre Gouzou, Luisa Homem and Inês Sapeta Dias, Kamal Aljafari, and Tânia Dinis, among others.
Just like that.
* Still images:
- ‘A Fidai Film’ (Kamal Aljafari, 2024).
- ‘The Revolution Hunter’ (Margarida Rêgo, 2014).
- ‘We Are Fine’ (Michaela Taschek, Sandra Wollner and Britta Schoening, 2013).
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TOWARDS A FILM THEORY FROM BELOW:
Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up
A new book by Jiri Anger
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. date: June 27, 2024
Operating between film theory, media philosophy, archival practice, and audiovisual research, Jiri Anger focuses on the relationship between figuration and materiality in early films, experimental found footage cinema, and video essays.
Would it be possible to do film theory from below, through the perspective of moving-image objects, of their multifarious details and facets, however marginal, unintentional, or aleatory they might be? Could we treat scratches, stains, and shakes in archival footage as speculatively and aesthetically generative features? Do these material actors have the capacity to create “weird shapes” within the figurative image that decenter, distort, and transform the existing conceptual and methodological frameworks?
Building on his theoretical as well as practical experience with the recently digitized corpus of the first Czech films, created by Jan Kríženecký between 1898 and 1911, Jiri Anger demonstrates how technological defects and accidents in archival films shape their aesthetic function and our understanding of the materiality of film in the digital age.
Morgan Fisher at the XV edition of the (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico
A Coruña, Spain
May 31 - June 9, 2024
Breaking news!
The 15th edition of the (S8) International Film Festival, will give a deserved recognition to the work of the American experimental filmmaker Morgan Fisher, a notable figure in found footage cinema, an artist who we truly admire.
* Still image from ‘Standard Gauge’ (M. Fisher, 1984).
Thom Andersen: An American Cinematheque Retrospective
American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, US
Through May 18, 2024
A long-time Los Angeles local, writer, teacher, film critic, historian, programmer, and experimental filmmaker, Thom Andersen knows cinema, which is why the American Cinematheque is delighted to welcome the filmmaker in-person for a complete retrospective of his works that break apart and reconstruct the meaning of the art form.
Featuring ‘Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer’ (1975-2014), ‘Red Hollywood’ (1995), ‘Los Angeles Plays Itself’ (2003), ‘The Thoughts That Once We Had’ (2015), and ‘A Train Arrives At The Station’ (2016), among others.
* Still image from ‘A Train Arrives at the Station’.
THIS IS FILM! #4: INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION OF COLLECTIONS
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April 17, 2024
This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice is an annual public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage, with international guest speakers and film screenings.
Under the overarching theme of ‘Presenting of Audiovisual Collections: Experiments and Explorations’, also the theme of this year’s Eye International Conference, scholars and film professionals worldwide will present and discuss remarkable archival practices and initiatives, among them, very notable films like “To the Moon (Tadhg o’ Sullivan, 2020) and ‘Alien Visions’ (Bram Loogman and Pablo Nuñez Palma, 2020).
* Still image from ‘Alien Visions’ (Bram Loogman and Pablo Nuñez Palma, 2020).
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Athens, Ohio, US
April 8-14, 2024
The Athens International Film and Video Festival announces a great lineup of events for its 51st edition (wow).
Featuring found footage and collage films by Alee Peoples, Sasha Waters, Maryam Tafakory, Diogo Baldaia, Gregg Biermann, Jules Louise Biller, Arlin Golden, Brian Gersten, and Tony Buba, among others, plus, a retrospective program on Michael Robinson!
* Still image from ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’ (Michael Robinson, 2005).
THE ARCHIVE HAS A VOICE
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On the image:
- Johannes Hammel’s ‘The Bathers’ (featuring in the FFM 2024 edition)
Su Friedrich and Péter Forgács à la Filmoteca de Catalunya
March 2024
The Filmoteca of Catalunya pays tribute to Su Friedrich and Péter Forgács with a great retrospective program of masterpieces.
Hungarian filmmaker Péter Forgács has built a universe of his own that has been described as a “mixture of anthropology, theatre, documentary and private diary”. His cinema delves into the European collective memory of the 20th century based on private filming and unpublished images from archives, including that of the Filmoteca de Catalunya. It is through found footage and his personal interpretation of the archives, that Forgács gives traumatic historical events a new perspective.
With a clear feminist and humanist consciousness, with honesty, sensitivity and a fine sense of humor, American filmmaker Su Friedrich has made more of twenty films that start from her personal experiences, emotions, dreams, fears and desires to explore forms of self-knowledge and knowledge of the world. Her films have the virtue of be accessible and enjoyable for a wide audience, even for those who are not used to experimental, feminist, or q***r cinema. Coming from The Punto de Vista festival, the Filmoteca de Catalunya will offer a retrospective of her work.
Still images:
- ‘Hide and Seek’ (Su Friedrich, 1996).
- ‘The Maelstrom: A Family Chronicle’ (Péter Forgács, 1997).
- ‘Sink or Swim’ (Su Friedrich, 1990).
- ‘El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War’ (Péter Forgács, 2005).
Italy: Fire and Ashes
By Céline Gailleurd and Olivier Bohler, 2021
‘Italy: Fire and Ashes’ is a richly documented, lyrical, and visionary journey into an unknown universe: the origins of Italian silent cinema, an epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930, narrated by Isabella Rossellini for the Italian and English versions and by F***y Ardant for the French one.
An art and a dazzling industry that gave birth to the first international stars, to hundreds of peplum, melò and adventure films, and launched the first filmmakers. Its world of fasts and romantic deliriums, between Verdi’s symbolism and D’Annunzio’s decadentism, soon reached international fame, fascinating crowds, intellectuals and artists from all over Europe, reaching out to the United States and South America. The protagonists of ITALIA – Fire and Ashes are male and female directors, actors and actresses, technicians and critics who contributed to the exuberant originality of that cinema.
‘Italy: Fire and Ashes’ is currently streaming on
THE REALITY OF THE IMAGE: THE CINEMA OF THOM ANDERSEN
Cineteca Madrid, Spain
January 27 - 31, 2024
“The films and writings of Thom Andersen might be said to subscribe to a similar kind of guardedly humanistic postmodernism. Straddling the worlds of film theory, history, and criticism, running the gamut from primitive silent cinema to the Hollywood mainstream to the avant-garde and everything in between, Andersen’s tastes are nothing if not eclectic.” —Matthew Cole Levine, Found Footage Magazine, issue #5.
Cineteca Madrid presents a complete retrospective on the American filmmaker Thom Andersen, an unique opportunity to enjoy his masterpieces on the big screen.
* Still image from ‘The Thoughts That Once We Had’ (2015).
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.
Serpentine South Gallery - London, UK
From February 1 to March 17, 2024
Happy New Year friends!
Let’s start with a great event.
Combining images drawn from mass-media photographs with provocatively concise language, Barbara Kruger has been creating explorations of social relationships imbued with her distinctive sense of urgency and humor for more than 40 years.
For her first solo exhibition in London in over two decades, Serpentine South Gallery will feature Kruger’s iconic pieces reconfigured as video works, including ‘Untitled (I shop therefore I am)’ (1987/2019) and ‘Untitled (Your body is a battleground)’ (1989/2019).
Lyrical Nitrate: Experimentations with archival films
CCCB - Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Spain
January 21, 2024
Keep this date in mind.
Chief curator of the Eye Filmmuseum Giovanna Fossati, presents a selection of experimental found footage films from the Eye Filmmuseum collection in Amsterdam. From the poetic ode to silent cinema in the classic found-footage masterpiece Lyrical Nitrate to the contemporary explorations of materiality in Liquidator and Under Saturn (Act 1), this screening delves into the various approaches of archival reuse and explores the visualization of materiality, decomposition, and digital manipulation.
- 'Lyrisch Nitraat' (Peter Delpeut, 1991).
Filmmaker, writer and former deputy director of the Dutch Filmmuseum Peter Delpeut draws from the Desmet Collection (1907-1916) to craft a visually stunning tribute to early cinema. This found-footage classic film showcases the richness of cinematography, mise en scène, acting, and colour in silent cinema from the Desmet Collection, a UNESCO Memory of the World treasure.
- 'Liquidator' (Karel Doing, 2010).
Experimental filmmaker Karel Doing’s study of the non-fiction film 'Haarlem' (1922) unfolds as a fascinating exploration of film’s materiality. Undertaken during the restoration of the original film, Liquidator is an experimental journey into nitrate decomposition within the digital domain.
- 'Under Saturn (Act 1)' (Alexandra Navrtil, 2018).
Created during Alexandra Navratil’s Artist in Residency at Eye, this work explores the materiality of early non-fiction films (ca. 1895–1935). Focused on industrial films related to coal or oil, alongside microscopic images of blood-cells and micro-organisms, Navratil employs digital tools to provide a highly original visual and aural perspective on the archival material.
* Still image from 'Liquidator' (Karel Doing, 2010).
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FOUND FOOTAGE MAGAZINE - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - ISSUE #10
DEADLINE: MARCH 15th, 2024
Next year, Found Footage Magazine will celebrate its 10th anniversary with an ambitious print edition.
The call for papers is open, and submissions for essays, articles, interviews, and book reviews will be accepted through March 15th, 2024.
We're looking forward to many participating!
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L'Alternativa, Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
November 10-19, 2023
Ephemeral moments from the archives, reused, upcycled in new discourses.
The different ways in which found footage is employed, will be largely illustrated in the forthcoming edition of L'Alternativa with an impressive selection of films.
With Miranda Pennell, Janie Geiser, Vlad Petri, Maxime Martinot, Charlie López, Laura García Pérez, Agustina Comedi, Axel Danielson y Maximilien Van Aertryck, Natalia Lucía, Xacio Baño, and Karla Crnčević, among others.
More info: https://alternativa.cccb.org
IDFA International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November 8-19, 2023
Maxime Martinot, Jean-Marie Tén, Fiona Tan, Bill Morrison, Godfrey Reggio, Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Jyoti Mistry, Maryam Tafakory, Milisuthando Bongela, Tessa Leuwsha, Ulises de la Orden, Sue Ding, Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze, Pegah Ahangarani, Daniel Cortés, Khaled Abdulwahed, João Pedro Bim, Şirin Bahar Demirel, Thunska Pansittivorakul, Marley McDonald and Brian Becker, and Olga Chernykh, among others.
Shortly, at IDFA in Amsterdam.
* Still image from 'Koyaanisqatsi' (Godfrey Reggio, 1982).
More info: https://festival.idfa.nl
In the 2023 edition of Found Footage Magazine, a collection of essays, articles, interviews, and book reviews to make experimental cinema a vital part of our daily lives.
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FOUND FOOTAGE MAGAZINE - 2023 EDITION
Filmmakers and visual artists discussed in issue #9, October 2023:
Craig Baldwin, Bruce Conner, Adam Curtis, Peter Delpeut, Doplgenger, Jennifer Dysart, Michael Fleming, Hollis Frampton, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Ja’Tovia Gary, Sam Gurry, Louis Henderson, Ken Jacobs, Chris Kennedy, André Lage, Kent Lambert, Mark Leckey, Malcolm Le Grice, Jorge Lozano, Jesse McLean, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Bill Morrison, Miranda Pennell, Jennifer Proctor, Kathryn Ramey, Al Razutis, Michael Robinson, Phil Solomon, Courtney Stephens, Amy Szczepanski, Naomi Uman, and Ryan White, among others.
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FOUND FOOTAGE MAGAZINE 2023 ANNUAL EDITION
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New issue #9 includes a monograph on Peter Delpeut as well as essays, articles, book reviews and interviews from scholars and practitioners on a wide array of topics related with the reuse and repurposing of extant media in moving image art.
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Dear friends,FOUND FOOTAGE MAGAZINE’s 2023 ANNUAL EDITION IS OUT !!!
New issue #9 includes a monograph on Peter Delpeut as well as essays, articles, book reviews and interviews from scholars and practitioners on a wide array of topics related with the reuse and repurposing of extant media in moving image art.
Contributors Found Footage Magazine issue #9:
Jananne Al-Ani, Greg de Cuir Jr, Peter Delpeut, Clint Enns, Giovanna Fossati, André Habib, Johannes Hammel, Abigail He, Mike Hoolboom, Isidora Ilić, Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė, Kamila Kuc, Matthew Cole Levine, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Hugo Ljungbäck, Scott MacDonald, Miranda Pennell, Boško Prostran, Kristin Reeves, Dave Rodriguez, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Catherine Russell, Arindam Sen, Matt Soar, Joshua Gen Solondz, César Ustarroz, Josh Weissbach, and Holly Willis.
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Final countdown for the new annual edition of Found Footage Magazine!!!
Very soon, in October ’23.
* Film strip composition from 'Billionaires Gnaw Their Tongues From the Pain’ by Matt Soar, 2021 (Found Footage Magazine Issue #9, October, 2023).
Chicago Underground Film Festival
September 13-17, 2023
Chicago, US
Terrific news:
Very soon, at CUFF, the experimental practice of found footage filmmaking, full of fiery imagination in the work of Louise Bourque, TT Takemoto, Michael Flemming, Joshua Gen Solondz, Courtney Stephens, Macon Reed, James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Scott Stark, among others.
Still image from 'NE CORRIDOR' (Joshua Gen Solondz, 2022).
More info: https://cuff.org
Fronteira Festival
Brasilia, Brazil
August 29 to September 3, 2023
A new edition of Fronteira is approaching, and it's a delight to share with you, friends, a taste of its wonderful selection of films.
With Giuseppe Spina and Giulia Mazzone, Julio Bressane and Rodrigo Lima, João Pedro Bim, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Mike Hoolboom and Jorge Lozano, Katherine Waugh and Fergus Daly, Sanaz Sohrabi, Saskia and Bernardo Oliveira, and Niles Atallah, among others.
More info: https://www.fronteirafestival.com
CROSSROADS 2023
San Francisco Cinematheque
Curated by Steve Polta
September 8–10, 2023
Very good news from the city of lights!
Crossroads experimental film festival announces its full program of events for 2023, with a stellar lineup of found footage and collage films.
Featuring works by Scott Stark, Louise Bourque, Francisco Álvarez Ríos, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Janie Geiser, TT Takemoto, Nik Liguori, and Sailor DiNucci-Radley, among others.
* Still image from 'Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung)' (TT Takemoto, 2021).
British artist, experimental filmmaker, beat poet, performer, graffiti, sound artist Jeff Keen, would have been 100 this year.
Here is an excerpt from his collage film 'Flik Flak' (1963), included in FOUND FOOTAGE & COLLAGE FILMS: SELECTED WORKS, a deluxe limited edition of sixteen short films for enthusiasts of experimental cinema only.
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Dokufest International Documentary & Short Film Festival
Prizren, Kosova
August 4-12, 2023
From Prizren, Kosova, Dokufest brings together emerging and established names from around the world. This year, found footage, archival films, and audiovisual essays by Naomi Uman, Fiona Tan, Anthoni Ing, Neritan Zinxhiria, Još jedno proleće, Maryam Tafakory, Divlje cvijeće, Jan Soldat, Mark Cousins, Maxime Martinot, and Louis Henderson, among others.
More info: https://dokufest.com/en/
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British artist, experimental filmmaker, beat poet, performer, graffiti, sound artist Jeff Keen, would have been 100 this year. Here is an excerpt from his collage film 'Flik Flak' (1963), included in FOUND FOOTAGE & COLLAGE FILMS: SELECTED WORKS, a deluxe limited edition of sixteen short films for enthusiasts of experimental cinema only. With 10% discount until July 31st, 2023 CODE: FFMDVD10 More info: https://foundfootagemagazine.com/issues/dvd-bluray-book/
We love share our passion. "Varela's great achievement is to offer a vision of the specific character of the archives by tracing a path towards a transcendental film, which is projected beyond time, and where cinema becomes a natural way of capturing non-dialectical repetitive needs and gestures. (...) 'The Prototype' shows how found footage, in its involuntary and epiphanic nature, can unveil our vulnerabilities, like the dream, or like the signs of another time."__Byron Davies, Desistfilm, 2022. For now, we'll leave you to enjoy an excerpt from Bruno Varela’s last film ‘El prototipo’. Happy New Year friends!
Now September begins to feel like fall, a reminder on the below: In the 2021 print issue of Found Footage Magazine you will find interviews, articles, essays, artworks, and other surprises aimed to promote experimentation in moving image practices. And, a insightful monograph on Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller. Contributors: Ernesto Baca, Alejandro Bachmann, Frank Beauvais, Matthew Cole Levine, Paul Cronin, Anna Doyle, Lola Dupre, Clint Enns, Peter Freund, Peet Gelderblom, Christoph Girardet, Audrey Jeamart, Scott MacDonald, Pablo Marín, Jean-Jacques Martinod, Stefano Miraglia, Matthias Müller, Bill Noir, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Catherine Russell, Nazaré Soares, Miriam Tölke, César Ustarroz, Monique Vettraino, Joshua Wille, and The Estate of John Baldessari. Get your copy via link in bio with special discounts and offers: @foundfootagemagazine #FoundFootageFilms #RecycledImages #CollageFilms #ArchivalFilms #Remix #FoundObject #ExperimentalCinema #EssayFilm #AppropriationArt #CulturalAppropriation #ReadyMade
On December 11th, 1928, the Cuban genius Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was born. "Memorias del subdesarrollo" (Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968) is still illuminating the path.
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