Jaimie Baron

Jaimie Baron is a researcher, editor, curator, and theorist. She is the author of The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (Routledge, 2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (Rutgers, 2020), as well as numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews. She founded and programmes the Festival of (In)appropriation, an annual international festival dedicated to experimental short films using found footage. She is also co-founder and co-editor of Docalogue, an online space where academics and filmmakers discuss contemporary documentary filmmaking, as well as the editorial collection associated with the project. She also co-edited the collection Media Ventriloquism: How Audiovisual Technologies Transform the Voice-Body Relation (Oxford, 2021) and co-authored, with Bill Nichols, the 4th edition of the manual Introduction to Documentary. Previously, she was a professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a Harvard Radcliffe Fellow for the 2022–2023 period and currently teaches Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley.

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

15:OCT 2:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m. 60'
Batalha Centro de Cinema

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.

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Talk
With Jay Rosenblatt by Jaimie Baron

17:OCT 2:00 p.m.—2:54 p.m. 45'
Batalha Centro de Cinema

In this conversation, Jaimie Baron will engage with Jay Rosenblatt about the intersections between his cinema and the concepts of archive, memory, and time. Combining found footage material with an intimate and poetic perspective on themes such as trauma, childhood, and the passage of time, Rosenblatt's work resonates particularly with Baron's concepts of the "archive effect" and "archival anticipation." This on-stage conversation will be an opportunity to explore the ways in which cinema can reconfigure the past and reveal the invisible through images.

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