Found Footage & Collage Films Selected Works

For enthusiasts of avant-garde cinema, this deluxe limited edition of sixteen short films provides a vivid account of various creative processes in the recycling of images in experimental moving image art. Found Footage & Collage Films: Selected Works comes complete with a book filled with analysis and insights of the selected films. Written by leading scholars and film critics for the occasion, this publication is an essential reading for understanding the aesthetics and contexts of found footage filmmaking in contemporary moving image culture.

Unified by the common end of reusing existing images to extract from them intimate insights for critical appropriation, this selection displays multiple avenues of media reappraisal in the recycling of home movies, pornographic films, newsreels, commercials, educational, scientific, and institutional films. We are interested in a vast array of different incursions, in the dialogue with an existing heritage. (...) Because the borrowed images are containers of the enchantments and tensions that produced them, once intervened, they become refashioned into allegories that condense the initial nature of the image itself—doubtless, a movement for developing the cinematic language.

(from Preface by César Ustarroz)

FILMS

Gymnopédies
Lawrence C. Jordan, 1965

Diario africano/ African Diary
Yervant Gianikian
& Angela Ricci Lucchi, 1994

Light Is Calling
Bill Morrison, 2003

The Color of Love
Peggy Ahwesh, 1994

Girl from Moush
Gariné Torossian, 1993

Zillertal
Jürgen Reble, 1997

Tito-Material
Elke Groen, 1998

Cruises
Cécile Fontaine, 1989

Is This What You Were Born For - Part 5: Covert Action
Abigail Child, 1984

Last Lost
Eve Heller, 1996

Under Twilight
Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2006

The Garden of Delight
Michael Fleming, 2017

Flik Flak
Jeff Keen, 1964-1965

Freude
Thomas Draschan, 2009

National Tapestry
Steven Woloshen, 2015

The Exquisite Corpus
Peter Tscherkassky, 2015