The REC.forward research project, dedicated to the contemporary re-use of amateur film, has been running for three years within the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaires Récits, Cultures et Sociétés (LIRCES) at the University Côte d’Azur (France). The international meetings and screenings organized as part of this project have encouraged interactions between researchers, artists, filmmakers, archivists and programmers, focusing on reused artefacts of all kinds. These cross-analytical reflections have confirmed the relevance of an interdisciplinary approach to the construction of theoretical and methodological frameworks for the analysis of the contexts, gestures and objects of re-use, dealing with amateur material in the field of creation, especially film. Based on the various re-use films that we have come across in the course of our research into these issues, in this Master Class we will propose a typology of the re-use methods observed, whether this gesture is apprehended at the level of the film as a whole, or at the level of each shot considered from a communicative perspective.

biografia

Sophie Raimond is Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the Université Côte d’Azur (France). Her research, conducted in the interdisciplinary laboratory LIRCES, focuses on visual creation, artistic practices of reuse and text/image connections, with a particular interest in the aesthetic and political issues of Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema and, in her most recent research, on narrative in the digital context and the contemporary re-use of amateur film. Her publications are available on the Hal portal. With Christel Taillibert, she directs the REC.forward research project on the contemporary reuse of amateur film.

Christel Taillibert is Professor in Information and Communication Sciences at the Université Côte d’Azur. Her research, developed within the LIRCES (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaires Récits, Cultures et Société) questions the relations between cinema and education from a transhistorical perspective: the history of educational cinematography, image education, film festivals, cinephilia and its online variations, etc. Her recent work also focuses on the mutations of the audiovisual ecosystem on the Web, on webproduction, and on the contemporary re-uses of amateur films. Her publications are available on the Hal-SHS web portal.With Sophie Raimond, she directs the REC.forward research project on the contemporary reuse of amateur film.

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