Sticky Films

Abstract

Stickiness is ambiguous. As a conceptual framework, it speaks of modes of relations and implies a strong affective charge between arousal, lust or disgust. In film and media production, sticky tools are both a material reality or the basis for metaphors of connection, repair or attachment in cut-and-paste or split-and-splice practices. Sticky Films brings the material and conceptual dimensions of stickiness into conversation, looking for intentional and sometimes unwanted sticky residues in film and media cultures. The chapters explore the feelings of stickiness, sticky modes of being, as well as representations or traces of stickiness in audiovisual media.