[Commlist] Frames Cinema Journal, Issue 19 ‘Sensing the Archive – Exploring the digital (im)materiality of the moving image archive’, published

*/Frames Cinema Journal/*

*Sensing the Archive – <http://framescinemajournal.com/>*

*Exploring the digital (im)materiality of the moving image archive 
<http://framescinemajournal.com>*

*Issue 19, Spring 2022*

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*Guest-Editor: Catherine Russell*

*Co-Editors-in-Chief: *Lucia Szemetová and Jacob Browne

*Book Review Editor:* Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal

Dear colleagues,

It is with great enthusiasm which we announce that Issue 19 of /Frames 
Cinema Journal /“*Sensing the Archive – Exploring the digital 
(im)materiality of the moving image archive”*, guest-edited by Catherine 
Russell, has now been published!

Over the last couple of years, we have all found our movements 
restricted by the ongoing pandemic. For many researchers, this 
confinement has been both physical and intellectual, with the archival 
visits that were previously our very staple being cancelled, postponed, 
or simply unwieldy. However, the current challenges with regard to 
archival research also foreground the growing digitisation of historical 
moving image media and its role in facilitating and structuring the 
future of research.


This issue turns to the tangibility of the medium and the fluidity of 
the material as a result of mass digitisation. Digital materiality – or 
immateriality – produces new instabilities and has transformed the ways 
in which we can access, understand, and interact with audio-visual 
heritage. It examines the sensory properties of archives and asks what 
kinds of historical knowledge lie within these resources and how can 
they be revived? As such this issue dissects the material 
vulnerabilities of audio-visual archives and their relation to cultural 
histories and archival studies to contribute critically to the 
flourishing academic discourse on digital humanities.


The contributions to this issue all address the archival instabilities 
reflected in their manifold understanding_s_ of the archive. 
They challenge the archive as a mere storage, collection, or a neutral 
space, and revise traditional film historical narratives. Each piece 
considers and revises the aspect of materiality and suggests new sensory 
modes of historiography. As such, they disrupt the exclusivity of 
physical access and written documents as the prerequisites for 
conducting film research and reckon with the various implications of 
digital transformation and the future of audio-visual heritage.


We would like to thank our guest editor, Catherine 
Russell, Distinguished Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, 
Concordia University, for her generous and deeply insightful 
contributions to this issue.  Her own work on the historical, cultural, 
and sensorial properties of archives has been seminal in shaping the 
field, and even as the contributions raise new possibilities and 
champion varied approaches to the archive, the influence of 
her ground-breaking work is reflected in all the essays of this issue.

*ISSUE 19: *

*TABLE OF CONTENTS*

*EDITORIAL*

Letter from the Editors

*INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUE*

Sensing the Archive

By Catherine Russell

*FEATURE ARTICLES*

*Resisting extractive uses of the archive in Colombian experimental 
non-fiction*

By María A. Vélez-Serna

*Remediating the Archive: Sabrina Gschwandtner’s Film Quilts as Forms of 
Material Knowledge*

By Lola Rémy

*Historical Trauma, Queer Sex, and Physical Touch in Barbara 
Hammer’s/Nitrate Kisses/*

By Rachel Lallouz

*Haunted Archives: Presence and Absence in the Audio-visual Record of 
Conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina*

By Lennaart van Oldenborgh

*Diasporic Archives and Hauntological Accretions*

By May Chew

*Whatever Happened to Home Movies? Self-representation from Family 
Archives to Online Algorithms*

By Lauren S. Berliner

*Images Big and Soft: The Digital Archive Rendered Cinematic*

By Holly Willis

*POV*

*Translating Interfaces in the/Ms./Magazine Archive*

By Fabiola Hanna and Irene Lusztig

*Recycling Destroyed Cities: Ruined Archives in Copy Ar*

By Maryam Muliaee

*FILM FEATURETTES*

*Anarchiving the New York Avant-Garde: The Phantom of Barbara 
Rubin’s/Christmas on Earth/*

By Giulia Rho

*Awakening the film censors’ archive in/[CENSORED]/(2018)*

By Claire Henry

*Double Vision: Encountering Early Ethnographic Films in the Digital 
Archive*

By Petra Löffler

*VIDEO ESSAYS*

*Borrowed Dreams: Joseph Cornell and the Archive as Psychic Imprint*

By Stephen Broomer

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*Uploading the Archive, Copy/Pasting the “Classical”*

By Eleni Palis

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*RETROSPECTIVE BOOK REVIEWS*

*Filmographies as Archives: On Richard Dyer’s List-Making in /Gays and 
Film/*

By Glyn Davis

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*A Preface with Promise: revisiting /Film Curatorship: Archives, 
Museums, and the Digital Marketplace/*

By Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal

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*BOOK REVIEWS*

*Justin Remes:/Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing/*

Reviewed by Jacob Browne

*Jaimie Baron:/ Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual 
Appropriation in the Digital Era/*

Reviewed by Lucia Szemetová

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*Eric Smoodin: /Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of 
Light, 1930-1950/*

Reviewed by Wesley Kirkpatrick

Happy reading!

Lucia Szemetová, Jacob Browne, and Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal

*Special Thanks to:*Patrick Adamson, Sarah Artt, Emre Caglayan, Milo 
Farragher-Hanks, Ruth Farrar, James Fenwick, George Larke-Walsh, Carla 
Mereu Keating, Wesley Kirkpatrick, Shana MacDonald, Barbara Majsa, Edwin 
Culp Morando, Cameron Mumford, Matilde Nardelli, Maria O'Brian, Clement 
Obropta, Philippa Orme, Isaac Pletcher, Steve Presence, Hollie Price, 
Maria Fernanda Miño Puga, Molly Ryan, Ana Maria Sapountzi, Zoë 
Shacklock, Kim Walden, Jonathan Wroot. *Without your hard work this 
issue would not have been possible!*

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*Follow us at @FramesJournal on Twitter!*

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