Handmade films and artist-run labs: the chemical sites of film’s counterculture
Handmade films and artist-run labs: the chemical sites of film’s counterculture
This article addresses handmade films and artist-run labs in particular as sites of hands-on film culture that reactivate moments and materials from media history. Drawing on existing research, discourses, and discussions with contemporary experimental filmmakers affiliated with labs or practicing their work in relation to film lab infrastructure, we focus on these sites of creation, preservation, and circulation of technical knowledge about analog film. But instead of reinforcing the binary of analog vs. digital, we argue that the various material practices from self-made apparatuses to photochemistry and film emulsions are ways of understanding the multiple materials and layered histories that define the post-digital culture of film. This focus links our discussion with some themes in media archaeology (experimental media archaeology as a practice) and to current discussions about labs as arts and humanities infrastructures for collective projects and practice-based methods.
Film, experimental film, media archaeology, Laboratory
Parikka, Jussi
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Catanese, Rossella
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Parikka, Jussi
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Catanese, Rossella
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Parikka, Jussi and Catanese, Rossella
(2018)
Handmade films and artist-run labs: the chemical sites of film’s counterculture.
NECSUS - the European Journal of Media Studies, Autumn 2018.
Abstract
This article addresses handmade films and artist-run labs in particular as sites of hands-on film culture that reactivate moments and materials from media history. Drawing on existing research, discourses, and discussions with contemporary experimental filmmakers affiliated with labs or practicing their work in relation to film lab infrastructure, we focus on these sites of creation, preservation, and circulation of technical knowledge about analog film. But instead of reinforcing the binary of analog vs. digital, we argue that the various material practices from self-made apparatuses to photochemistry and film emulsions are ways of understanding the multiple materials and layered histories that define the post-digital culture of film. This focus links our discussion with some themes in media archaeology (experimental media archaeology as a practice) and to current discussions about labs as arts and humanities infrastructures for collective projects and practice-based methods.
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 October 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 November 2018
Keywords:
Film, experimental film, media archaeology, Laboratory
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Local EPrints ID: 428424
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428424
ISSN: 2213-0217
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Rossella Catanese
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