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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 us imagine an unruly, po

Author

Domietta Torlasco; Project Muse

Publisher

MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY PRESS; University of Minnesota Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781452949093

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy