Performing Moving Images

Senta Siewert is a Film Scholar and Guest Researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and was Guest Professor for Film Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum and has taught in Berlin, Stuttgart, Bochum, Frankfurt, Bayreuth, Paderborn, Jena, Hamburg and Amsterdam. She is a Curator and Filmmaker and Author of Entgrenzungsfilme — Jugend, Musik, Affekt, Gedächtnis. Eine pragmatische Poetik zeitgenössischer europäischer Filme (2013) and Fassbinder und Deleuze — Körper, Leiden, Entgrenzung (2009).

"Performing Moving Images is the newest book from the acclaimed Framing Film series, published by Eye Filmmuseum and Amsterdam University Press. [...] This book will be hugely valuable to anyone with a keen interest in discovering more about how films emerge from archives to appear before an audience." - Helen de Witt, FIAF Journal of Film Preservation, April 2021

• Introduction: Experimental Cinema, Expanded Cinema, and Artists' Film Chapter 1: Access: Agents, Archives Archive - Whether to Preserve or to Show Programming - Historiography in the Making Curating - Montage of Contexts Case Study: Living Archive Project - Arsenal, Berlin Expanded Cinema - Expanded Consciousness and Event Case Study: Forum Expanded, Berlin Film Festival Case Study: International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen Case Study: Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone Archival Impulse - Archive Fever Chapter 2: Affect: Performance, Audience Black Box and White Cube Case Study: Anthology Film Archives, New York Case Study: LUX, Light Industry, Filmforum, Lightcone, LaborBerlin Case Study: Harun Farocki Case Study: Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam Aesthetic Experience Music in Film Studies Sensual Pleasure Case Study: Sonic Acts Festival Case Study: Psychedelia and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) Programming affects Chapter 3: Reconstruction: Memory and Audio-Visual Heritage Historiography - Films that Make History Case Study: The Realm of Possibilities 4-Access: Diamonds, Enter, Fin Documents - Testifying the Past Found Footage - Sampling and Remixing images and music Experimental Music Video Clips Case Study: Deutsches Filminstitut Filmmuseum, Frankfurt Audio-Visual Heritage Expanded Heritage Memory - Joyful Archive of Experiences Experimental films and philosophy Outlook Conclusion Acknowledgements Illustrations General Bibliography Index