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From Wallpaper to Interactivity: Use of Archive Footage in Documentary Filmmaking
Wilma de Jong
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DOI:10.17265/2160-6579/2012.03.004
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
“Our relation to the past is being transformed by digital media. Internet and digital databases increase the presence of the past and remake our connection to both past and present” (Manoff, 2010, p. 9). The use of archive footage in documentary filmmaking has increased significantly, since the digitalization of audio-visual archives. Access is facilitated by databases and different interfaces. The theorization about the particular impacts of archive footage on the documentary text has not received much attention as yet as archive usage has been seen as unproblematic and digital archives as just “handy”. This paper is a first step in the development of a taxonomy of how archive footage is being used by documentary filmmakers, while taken into account the production practices and the processes of archivization of archive materials.
archive footage, database culture, documentary filmmaking/documentary production practices