PRIVLASTNENÝ FILM – FILMOVÝ ARCHÍV, HISTÓRIA, (POST)AVANTGARDNÉ PRÍSTUPY
FOUND FOOTAGE – ARCHIVES, HISTORY, (POST)AVANT-GARDE APPROACHES

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with theoretical reflections on found footage. On the example of Gustav Deutsch’s works that use found footage, it analyzes his (post) avant-garde approaches to film with the aim to elucidate how the collage and the recontextualization of archive footage materials contributes to modern-day research on the history of culture and society. It explores why and how these approaches correspond to contemporary cultural practices that have been increasingly confronted with a number of audiovisual contents and constant changes in the development and technology of audiovisual media ever since the birth of cinema. It explains the similarities and the differences between museums and archives as specific areas of representation and diversity from the perspective of Foucault’s heterotopia. In the same spirit, it reflects on archaeology and archiveology, as two methods of research on history, and on the archive effect as part of the reception of appropriated audiovisual contents.

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