Found Footage as the Cinema of Renewal of Meaning of Home Movies in Films “A Song of Air” and “Sea in the Blood”

Paulina Haratyk

kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Gabriela Sitek


Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Abstract

The text is an analysis and interpretation of found footage documentaries: A Song of Air by Merilee Bennett (1988) and Sea In The Blood by Richard Fung (2000), which were constructed from family footage from the archives of their creators. The text is an attempt to show the potential of found footage as a creative technique based on editing in the construction of the narrative of the past identity. The authors of the text refer to, among others, points made by William C. Wees in the work Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films and Jaimie Baron in The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History. They refer to the category of con- structed identity, presented in Katarzyna Rosner’s work Narracja, tożsamość i czas [Narrative, identity and time], and David Carr’s concept to emphasize how the use of home movies allows individual film-makers, being the subject of the work, to tell individual experiences and incorporate family relationships in a narrative story dealing with identity.


Keywords:

Merilee Bennett, Richard Fung, found footage

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Published
2018-12-31

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Haratyk, P. and Sitek, G. (2018) “Found Footage as the Cinema of Renewal of Meaning of Home Movies in Films “A Song of Air” and ‘Sea in the Blood’”, Kwartalnik Filmowy, (104), pp. 178–192. doi: 10.36744/kf.1868.

Authors

Paulina Haratyk 
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland

Filmoznawczyni i kulturoznawczyni, doktorantka w Instytucie Sztuk Au­diowizualnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, gdzie przygotowuje pracę na temat polskiego kina amatorskiego okresu PRL-u. Absolwentka antropologii literatury oraz filmoznawstwa tegoż uniwersytetu, stypendystka Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego. Zajmuje się kinem ama­torskim, filmem found footage. Realizuje projekty kulturalne, edukacyjne i społeczne z wykorzysta­niem filmów i nowych mediów. Publikowała m.in. w „Kwartalniku Filmowym”, „Przeglądzie Kulturoznawczym”, „Małej Kulturze Współczes­nej” oraz „Ekranach”.


Authors

Gabriela Sitek 

Jagiellonian University Poland

Doktorantka w Instytucie Sztuk Audiowizualnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Przygotowuje rozprawę doktorką dotyczącą dialektyki przestrzeni prywatnej i publicznej w doku­mentalnych filmach found footage. Absolwentka filologii polskiej na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim i podyplomowych studiów „Wiedza o kulturze” Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Publikowała m.in. w „Kwartalniku Filmowym”, „Ekranach”, „Me­diach - Kulturze - Komunikacji Społecznej”, „Kulturze Liberalnej” i „Res Publice Nowej”.



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