[sixpackfilm] RECYCLED CINEMA – A Retrospective at the Austrian Film Museum (oct 23 – nov 26, 2020)

Wed Oct 21 15:56:00 CEST 2020

RECYCLED CINEMA 

October 23rd to November 26th at the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna

While “found footage filmmaking,” vast and diverse as it is, appears both marginal and elusive as the subject of a retrospective, the sheer number of artists who devoted their entire careers to found footage speaks to its lasting legacy and ongoing impact. There are the deeply ethical and political implications of working with footage to reframe discourse, to challenge identity and to rewrite history. There is the promise of an accessible and democratic art form that empowers independent filmmaking, “desktop cinema” avant la lettre, if you will. And then there is, of course, the world of aesthetic possibilities that this practice offers: poetics that transform the ever so often utilitarian banality of the industrial medium of film and turn waste into art, a trademark of filmmakers like Peter Tscherkassky, Peggy Ahwhesh, Cécile Fontaine or Bruce Conner.

A retrospective like ours of course cannot be considered “complete”. Our aim was not to create a comprehensive, international, historical overview of the found footage filmmaking tradition. Our curatorial approach, and the selection of titles for this season was driven by two principles: to create an attractive, thought-provoking selection that would introduce some of the key positions within this rich practice; and to make no distinction whatsoever between commercial and underground, popular and obscure, industrial and artistic, feature length and short, fiction and documentary. Instead we prefer to understand this term as a hypernym for other existing monikers that describe this practice, like collage film or compilation film. Furthermore, we were looking for works which have the impetus to make a strong artistic statement in respect of conventional storytelling, the entertainment industry, the representation of gender and racial discrimination, the brutality of political power, the rhythm and beauty of ephemeral films or the advertising and news practices: we can also call it applied film and media criticism.

This year's Viennale-Filmmuseum retrospective celebrates both the global nature and character of the found footage tradition and its strong home base in Viennese arts practice and film culture. In this regard, the show also celebrates the curatorial and entrepreneurial excellence of Viennese film distributor sixpackfilm, born thirty years ago from a film series on precisely this same subject: found footage cinema. 
(Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Michael Loebenstein, Jurij Meden)

A Programm of Austrian Filmmuseum and Viennale in cooperation with sixpackfilm
curated by Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Michael Loebenstein, Jurij Meden

detailled informations on the program here <https://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1597801830195>:

© Gustav Deutsch
Harun Farocki || Stefanie Weberhofer || Sabine Marte
Bill Morrison || Peter Tscherkassky || Germaine Dulac
Cécile Fontaine || Phil Solomon || Dietmar Brehm
Nana Swiszinsky || Eve Heller || Lisl Ponger 

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