Archival Anticipations: the articulation of temporal transformation through “found” footage Masterclass

A frequent function of archival filmmaking is the visual articulation of time’s passage, in other words, of change over time. In my earlier work, I discussed the experience of “temporal disparity” as a constituent aspect of the “archive effect.” Sometimes, however, temporal disparities may accumulate, revealing not simply difference but, rather, transformation. The technologically enabled ability to store audiovisual fragments of present moments in expectation of future retrospection has led some moving image artists to actively produce and store images in anticipation of a retrospective gaze that will reveal what cannot be seen in the present, a move similar to that of burying a time capsule. Indeed, the experience of sequential differences may produce a revelatory perception of time inaccessible through any other means. I refer to this form of filmmaking as “archival anticipation,” a looking forward to the promise of looking back.

This masterclass will be conducted in English and requires prior registration through a form to secure a seat. Admission is free, but a ticket must be collected in advance.

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Jaimie Baron

 Jaimie Baron is a writer, editor, curator, and theorist. She is the author of The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (Routledge, 2014) andReuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era(Rutgers, 2020) as well as many journal articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews. She is the founder and director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos. She is also a co-founder and co-editor of Docalogue, an online space for scholars and filmmakers to engage in conversations about contemporary documentary, and the Docalogue book series. She also co-edited a collection entitled Media Ventriloquism: How Audiovisual Technologies Transform the Voice-Body Relation (Oxford, 2021) and co-authored the 4^th edition of Introduction to Documentary with Bill Nichols. She previously held the position of professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a 2022 – 2023 recipient of a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship. She currently lectures in Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley.