Revolution Unfolding: The Historical Present between ‘Real Time’ and Latency in Found Footage Filmmaking
Johanna Laub
Abstract:The inextricable connection between uprisings and technologies of audiovisual recording and broadcasting, especially within an ecology of digital networks, suggests the possibility to follow events in ‘real time’. This paper asks how filmmakers explore the complexities of this notion—and the questions of spectatorship, temporality and mediation that are attached to it—by drawing on the an-archive of protest footage. It is especially interested in the ways in which found footage filmmaking manages to (re-)creat… Show more
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