The Otolith Group’s “Monuments to Dead Television.” Independent Cinema and the Migrant Experience in Europe between Television and the Museum

“Monument to dead television” is the expression the British collective The Otolith Group uses to define its activity of recuperating long-lost quality films, and re-screening them in contemporary art museums and gallery spaces. What these films share is a cinematic vocation and a complex approach to...

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Main Author: Beatrice Ferrara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Pittsburgh 2014-04-01
Series:CINEJ Cinema Journal
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Online Access:http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/78
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description “Monument to dead television” is the expression the British collective The Otolith Group uses to define its activity of recuperating long-lost quality films, and re-screening them in contemporary art museums and gallery spaces. What these films share is a cinematic vocation and a complex approach to the question of memory and migration in Europe, and to the role of images as testimonies or documents. This essay explores The Otolith Group’s interest in such forgotten archives of modern television in order to unearth their significance for contemporary museums today.
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spelling doaj.art-6b43cc92ccaa4081afa483141e1a5d642022-12-21T19:43:42ZengUniversity of PittsburghCINEJ Cinema Journal2159-24112158-87242014-04-0131477410.5195/cinej.2013.7860The Otolith Group’s “Monuments to Dead Television.” Independent Cinema and the Migrant Experience in Europe between Television and the MuseumBeatrice Ferrara0Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Napoli, Italy“Monument to dead television” is the expression the British collective The Otolith Group uses to define its activity of recuperating long-lost quality films, and re-screening them in contemporary art museums and gallery spaces. What these films share is a cinematic vocation and a complex approach to the question of memory and migration in Europe, and to the role of images as testimonies or documents. This essay explores The Otolith Group’s interest in such forgotten archives of modern television in order to unearth their significance for contemporary museums today.http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/78The Otolith Group, EU television archives, museums, identity and migration, attention economy
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The Otolith Group’s “Monuments to Dead Television.” Independent Cinema and the Migrant Experience in Europe between Television and the Museum
CINEJ Cinema Journal
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title The Otolith Group’s “Monuments to Dead Television.” Independent Cinema and the Migrant Experience in Europe between Television and the Museum
title_full The Otolith Group’s “Monuments to Dead Television.” Independent Cinema and the Migrant Experience in Europe between Television and the Museum
title_fullStr The Otolith Group’s “Monuments to Dead Television.” Independent Cinema and the Migrant Experience in Europe between Television and the Museum
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title_short The Otolith Group’s “Monuments to Dead Television.” Independent Cinema and the Migrant Experience in Europe between Television and the Museum
title_sort otolith group s monuments to dead television independent cinema and the migrant experience in europe between television and the museum
topic The Otolith Group, EU television archives, museums, identity and migration, attention economy
url http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/78
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