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Openness as a creative principle: Home movies, found footage, and their second life in the documentary film Reconstruction of Occupation

dc.creatorŘehořová, Irena
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T11:10:24Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T11:10:24Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis paper addresses the concept of openness within the context of audiovisual archives and memory, focusing specifically on the repurposing of home movies and found footage in the creation of new cinematic works. Despite their inherently personal nature, home movies have emerged as valuable repositories of historical and societal insights, diverging from images and narratives offered by professional cinematography. Ensuring their accessibility to a wider audience, beyond their availability in public or private archives, is pivotal for their contribution to cultural memory. One effective strategy to enhance accessibility, visibility, and relevance for contemporary audiences involves integrating home movies and found footage into novel assemblages, such as documentary films: through re-use, recontextualisation, and reappropriation, the archival footage can be given a new, meaningful life. This study examines the documentary film Rekonstrukce okupace (Reconstruction of Occupation, 2021) as a notable example of such practice and argues that openness is a principle that was intrinsic to its creation, particularly in terms of the filmen
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22833
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/openness-as-a-creative-principle-home-movies-found-footage-and-their-second-life-in-the-documentary-film-reconstruction-of-occupation/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/24312
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectarchival imagesen
dc.subjectcultural memoryen
dc.subjectdocumentary filmmakingen
dc.subjectmicronarrativesen
dc.subjectoccupation 1968en
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.titleOpenness as a creative principle: Home movies, found footage, and their second life in the documentary film Reconstruction of Occupationen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticle
local.coverpage2024-07-13T02:33:06
local.source.epage115
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitle#Open
local.source.spage97
local.source.volume13

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