The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film by Domietta Torlasco

By Domietta Torlasco


The Heretical Archive examines the connection among reminiscence and production in modern works of art that use electronic expertise whereas appropriating movie fabrics. Domietta Torlasco argues that those electronic movies and multimedia installations appreciably rework our reminiscence of cinema and our knowing of the archive. certainly, such works outline a idea of archiving no longer because the passive protection of audiovisual indicators yet as an intervention and the inventive rearticulation of cinema’s perceptual and political textures.


Connecting psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and feminist concept in cutting edge methods, Torlasco analyzes state of the art electronic works that have interaction with the prior of ecu cinema and visible tradition, together with video installations by means of Monica Bonvicini (Destroy She Said) and Pierre Huyghe (The Ellipsis), Agnès Varda’s movie The Gleaners and I, Marco Poloni’s multimedia set up The desolate tract Room, and Chris Marker’s CD-ROM Immemory.


Torlasco’s valuable declare is if the records of psychoanalysis and cinema have lengthy privileged the lineage that runs from Oedipus to Freud, the information of the electronic age—what she calls the “heretical archive”—can support us think an unruly, porous, multifaceted legacy, one within which marginal figures go back to talk of misplaced existence up to of existence that calls for to be lived.


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