The Memory of Film: Memorative Art in Cinema Museums
Abstract
The article is an analysis of the practices of contemporary film museology, which allow for the problematization of memory. The research assumption is the belief that just as contemporary narrative museology, implemented as multimedia, interactive, historical exhibitions, is becoming more and more cinematic, digital, and scenographic, cinema museums are increasingly willing to manifest a turn towards matter, emphasizing the physical artifacts of cinematographic processes. The author reflects i.a. on the concepts of Krzysztof Pomian, Aleida Assmann, Mieke Bal, and Andreas Huyssen. They are introduced in such a way as to show their particular process of decontextualization, manifestation of film itself, their post-cinematic transpositions and paratexts. With the progressive redefinition of film as a digital, network, modified phenomenon, cinema museums will play an increasingly important role as places of collecting, researching, and showing film techniques belonging to the past. For this purpose, transhistorical models of film museology have been distinguished: archives, processes, and objects.
Keywords:
film, museum, memory, exhibition, film archive, memory studiesReferences
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Rafał Syskar.syska@onet.eu
Jagiellonian University Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9680-0923
Associate Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Film historian specializing in contemporary cinema and post-film practices. The author of i. a.: Film i przemoc. Sposoby obrazowania przemocy w kinie [Film and Violence: Violence Representations in Cinema] (2003), Zachować dystans. Filmowy świat Roberta Altmana [Keep the Distance: The Cinematic World of Robert Altman] (2008), Poezja obrazu. Filmy Theo Angelopoulosa [Poetry of the Image: Films of Theo Angelopoulos] (2008), Filmowy neomodernizm [Neomodernism in Film] (2014), Historia filmu. Od Edisona do Nolana [History of Film: From Edison to Nolan] (2015). Editor of Słownik filmu [Film Dictionary] (2005, 2nd ed. 2010) and numerous books, i. a.: Arcydzieła klasycznego kina amerykańskiego [Masterpieces of Classical American Cinema] (2013) and Niezrealizowane arcydzieła kina [Unfinished Masterpieces of Cinema] (2018). He co-edited the series Mistrzowie kina amerykańskiego [Masters of American Cinema] (2006-2009) and the four-volume Historia kina [History of Cinema] (from 2009). He received grants of the Foundation for Polish Science and The Kościuszko Foundation. In 2012, visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He ran Erasmus Plus classes in Middlesex University London, Masarykova Univerzita in Brno, Lietuvos Muzikos ir Teatro Akademija in Vilnius, and Universidad de Málaga. Creator, founder and editor-in-chief of the Ekrany magazine (2011-2018). Curator of exhibitions at the National Museum in Kraków: “Stanley Kubrick” (2014) and “Wajda” (2019). Since 2016 he is the director of the National Centre of Film Culture in Łódź.
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