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__The Heretical Archive__ examines the relationship between memory and creation in contemporary artworks that use digital technology while appropriating film materials. Domietta Torlasco argues that these digital films and multimedia installations radically transform our memory of cinema and our understanding of the archive. Indeed, such works define a notion of archiving not as the passive preservation of audiovisual signs but as an intervention and the creative rearticulation of cinema’s perceptual and political textures. Connecting psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and feminist theory in innovative ways, Torlasco analyzes cutting-edge digital works that engage with the past of European cinema and visual culture, including video installations by Monica Bonvicini (__Destroy She Said__) and Pierre Huyghe (__The Ellipsis__), Agnès Varda’s film __The Gleaners and I__, Marco Poloni’s multimedia installation __The Desert Room__, and Chris Marker’s CD-ROM __Immemory__. Torlasco’s central claim is that if the archives of psychoanalysis and cinema have long privileged the lineage that runs from Oedipus to Freud, the archives of the digital age—what she calls the “heretical archive”—can help

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Author

Domietta Torlasco

Publisher

Minn. ; University of Minnesota Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781452949093

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History