"The Archive as a Space for Re-Creation (II) : Recycling Discredited Images"

This paper examines the archive as a space of re-creation for contemporary artists. More specifically, it deals with contemporary found footage films recycling aesthetically discredited material (industrial film, medical footage, porn, etc.). In particular, this paper focuses on Peter Tscherkassky’s latest work, "Coming Attractions" (2010). In this film, the Austrian filmmaker reworks and repurposes various advertising films and stresses the multiple connections he can identify between contemporary experimental film, the avant-garde (Fernand Léger, Henri Chomette, among others), the aesthetics of publicity and, allusively, the cinema of attractions (Lumière, Méliès, R. W. Paul)