Family films, amateur cinema and memory of the world
<p>The resumption of amateur images and home movies in <br />documentaries has intensified over the past two decades. This <br />article discusses the notions of amateur and family movies proposed <br />by the theorist Roger Odin and the gesture of appropriation and <br /&...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revistas.usp.br/significacao/article/view/71254 |
| Summary: | <p>The resumption of amateur images and home movies in <br />documentaries has intensified over the past two decades. This <br />article discusses the notions of amateur and family movies proposed <br />by the theorist Roger Odin and the gesture of appropriation and <br />displacement of these images, as well their recontextualization, in <br />contemporary cinema. We focus our analysis on the work of the <br />Hungarian artist Péter Forgács, who since 1980 makes installations <br />and documentary films with amateur images, largely produced by <br />Jews cameramen from Central. Forgács creates complex plots in <br />his films, where the characters’ life, the directions taken by them <br />and the fate of the world entwine.<br /><br /></p> |
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| ISSN: | 1516-4330 2316-7114 |