Book presentation: Kino aus zweiter Hand. Zur Ästhetik materieller Aneignung im Film und in der Medienkunst

The film scholar Christa Blümlinger places the theme of shifting and reconfiguring archival images in the context of a change of dispositifs. The re-use of moving images has become commonplace in the age of digital reproduction technologies, but it was born in film editing. The book deals with an archival art that can be understood, although it is related to the past, as a present act of reading, reshaping and incorporating. By means of repetition, found-footage films and essayistic compilations always aim at alteration, reprocessing, rewriting, and rearranging and thus at the originality of the newly conveyed forms of seeing and hearing. Blümlinger will present the book, published by Verlag Vorwerk8, using the example of Ken Jacobs' film performances. (April 27)