Amateur film, Benjamin's aura and the archive or: the archive as amateur film's age of technological reproducibility Universiteit Gent
Against the background of contemporary archival theory, stressing the active role of archives as shapers and (co-)creators of records, meaning and memory, this paper investigates the mechanisms of the film archive by discussing its relationship to amateur film. More precisely, as a critique of archival practices informed by readings of Benjamin, Derrida and Groys, the paper analyses the influence of the film archive on amateur filmU+2019s ...