Reanimating Found Footage

80 minutes
Reanimating Found Footage

Edwin Carels explores reanimated imagery through various manifestations, with diverse strategies by experimental filmmakers, media-activists and visual artists.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2010

Showing in this program

Alice in Wonderland or Who is Guy Debord

Alice in Wonderland or Who is Guy Debord

  • Robert Cauble
  • United States, 2003
  • 23 min.

Alice, unhappy with her prim, proper existence in Victorian England, travels through time into an age that allegorically resembles our own.

Beep Prepared

Beep Prepared

  • Stephen Gray
  • United Kingdom, 2002
  • 6 min.

What is Roadrunner without Willie E. Coyote; what is a cartoon without protagonists? What remains of the longest running and most existentialist series of sketches, when the actors have left the stage?

La Linea (Tractatus Logico-Economicus)

La Linea (Tractatus Logico-Economicus)

  • Franck Scurti
  • France, 2001
  • 2 min.

Cavandoli’s famous line figure (from 1969), provided with a background of disappointing stock market results.

Negativland: Gimme the Mermaid

Negativland: Gimme the Mermaid

  • Tim Maloney
  • United States, 2000
  • 5 min.

Music video combines the sound of a music industry lawyer with the voice of the Little Mermaid and Negativland's helium-tinged cover of Black Flag's Gimme Gimme Gimme.

No Ghost, Just a Shell: The Ann Lee Project

No Ghost, Just a Shell: The Ann Lee Project

  • Philippe Parreno / Pierre Huyghe
  • France / United Kingdom, 1999
  • 16 min.

Project with different artists, initiated by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, using the virtual character Ann Lee, originally developed by a Japanese company for the manga industry.

Runaway

Runaway

  • Standish Lawder
  • United States, 1969
  • 6 min.

Degenerated and manipulated images of a pack of Disney dogs, made with a home-made optical printer.

Shadow Cuts

Shadow Cuts

  • Martin Arnold
  • Austria, 2010
  • 4 min.

Arnold dissects the happy end of a cartoon with Mickey Mouse and Pluto, turning it into physiological borderline experience.

Sheik Attack

Sheik Attack

  • Eddo Stern
  • United States, 1999
  • 16 min.

Contemporary non-fiction horror film woven from pop nostalgia, computer war games, the sweat of virtual commandos, the blood of Sheiks and a mis-remembrance of a long lost Zionist Utopia.