Performing Moving Images: Access, Archives and Affects

By Senta Siewert

Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned to oblivion. Through a comparison of recent international case studies from festivals, museums, and gallery spaces, the book analyzes their new contexts, and describes the affective reception of those events. The study asks: what is the relationship between an aesthetic experience and memory at the point where film archives, cinema, and exhibition practices intersect? What can we learn from re-screenings, re-enactments, and found footage works, that are using archival material? How does the affective experience of the images, sounds and music resonate today? Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects proposes a theoretical framework from the perspective of the performative practice of programming, curating, and reconstructing, bringing in insights from original interviews with cultural agents together with an interdisciplinary academic discourse.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462985839
• ISBN13: 9789462985834
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"