Open AccessRecycled Images: the Art and Politics of Found Footage Films
Author(s) -
William C. Wees
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista laika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2316-4077
DOI - 10.11606/issn.2316-4077.v4i7p52-63
Subject(s) - film director , nothing , persuasion , politics , entertainment , art , postmodernism , shot (pellet) , mosaic , aesthetics , visual arts , movie theater , literature , psychology , materials science , political science , philosophy , law , epistemology , social psychology , metallurgy
Whatever the filmmaker may do to them — including nothing more than reproduce them exactly as he or she found them — recycled images call attention to themselves as images, as products of the image-producing industries of film and television, and therefore as pieces of the vast and intricate mosaic of information, entertainment, and persuasion that constitute the media-saturated environment of modern — or many would say, postmodern — life. By reminding us that we are seeing images produced and disseminated by the media, found footage films open the door to a critical examination of the methods and motives underlying the media's use of images.