Performing a Historical Re-enactment: The Making of a 16mm Home Movie

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference contribution (without a publication) › Academic

    Description

    In this presentation, I will "perform'' the making of a 16mm home movie based on my media archaeological experiments with an original Ciné-Kodak film camera from 1930. A split screen montage shows the recorded analogue film fragments besides footage that illustrates the process of making the film captured by my documentation equipment, including a digital video camera, GoPro and 360 degree camera. My contribution aims to discuss and re-evaluate the performative nature of media archaeological experiments, and how digital (documentation) tools enable new forms of presentation, explication and dissemination of historical tacit knowledge in early-twentieth century amateur filmmaking.
    Period18 Dec 2020
    Event titlePerforming Media Archaeological Experiments
    Event typeWorkshop
    LocationBelval, LuxembourgShow on map

    Keywords

    • media history
    • performativity
    • historical re-enactment
    • analogue film
    • experimental media archaeology
    • 16mm film