Nardelli, Matilde ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4582-1024 (2010) Moving Pictures: Cinema and Its Obsolescence in Contemporary Art. Journal of Visual Culture, 8.

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Abstract

Increasingly, whirring film projectors, diaphanous filmstrips and cinema’s apparently obsolete materials more generally have become prominent features of contemporary art. This article explores the widespread pursuit of cinematic obsolescence in contemporary gallery installations, and considers its relation to our current phase of media and technological change. Seen in the context of the much-vaunted transition to the digital age, this artistic phenomenon of engagement with cinema’s materiality and historicity may seem an act of nostalgia, or even of mourning, for cinema itself. Even as nostalgic gestures, however, the most sophisticated of these cinematic installations, such as those by Rodney Graham and Atom Egoyan analysed at length here, are a way of thinking cinema, of (re) interrogating its very idea and the possibility of its future. Furthermore, and somewhat paradoxically, for all their courting of obsolescence — in fact, by very virtue of this process — these artistic practices configure not the death of cinema but its continuation.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	doi10.1177/1470412909105694
Subjects:	Arts > Cultural history Film and television > Film theory
Depositing User:	Matilde Nardelli
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2024 07:25
Last Modified:	12 Aug 2024 07:25
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10462

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