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.