Harun Farocki reflects on the filmstrip-as-archive in a handful of films and writings from the 1990s.[1] In films such as Der Ausdruck der Hände (The Expression of Hands, 1997) and…
The fragment, as fragments, tends to dissolve the totality which it presupposes and which it carries off toward the dissolution from which it does not (properly speaking) form, but to…
Kristen Whissel, Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4201-4 US$22.95 (pb) 288pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press)…