Performing Moving Images: Access, Archives and Affects

Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned to oblivion. Through a comparison of recent international case studies from festivals, museums, and gallery spaces, the book analyzes their new contexts, and describes the affective reception of those events. The study asks: what is the relationship between an aesthetic experience and memory at the point where film archives, cinema, and exhibition practices intersect? What can we learn from re-screenings, re-enactments, and found footage works, that are using archival material? How does the affective experience of the images, sounds and music resonate today? Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects proposes a theoretical framework from the perspective of the performative practice of programming, curating, and reconstructing, bringing in insights from original interviews with cultural agents together with an interdisciplinary academic discourse.

Senta Siewert ============= Senta Siewert is a Film Scholar and leads the DFG-funded research project ＂Programming, Curating and Reconstructing as elements of a Performative Practice of Film Historiography＂ at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. She was Guest Professor for Film Studies with the focus on film theory and film aesthetics at the Ruhr-University Bochum and has taught in Berlin, Stuttgart, Bayreuth, Bochum, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam. She obtained her Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam in 2009 and holds an M.A. in Film Studies from the Free University Berlin. She is the author of the books Fassbinder und Deleuze (Tectum 2009) and Entgrenzungsfilme. Jugend, Musik, Affekt, Gedächtnis: Eine pragmatische Poetik zeitgenössischer europäischer Filme (Schüren 2013).