“Accidental” Postproduction and Acts of Remembering in Stand By For Tape Back-up, by Ross Sutherland
The essay analyses the film Stand By For Tape Back-up, by Ross Sutherland, which presents a “double gesture of postproduction”. On the one hand, there is Sutherland’s grandfather random, accidental recording on a videotape of several televisual fragments, that become the remainders through which the...
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| description | The essay analyses the film Stand By For Tape Back-up, by Ross Sutherland, which presents a “double gesture of postproduction”. On the one hand, there is Sutherland’s grandfather random, accidental recording on a videotape of several televisual fragments, that become the remainders through which the author reconstructs not only the traces of the processes of selection and consumption of his beloved grandfather, but also his own spectatorial experience. On the other hand, there is the performative gesture of Sutherland himself: as I aim to demonstrate, through the repetition, the reuse and the repurposing of those fragments Sutherland obsessively rewrites his history and redefines his own identity. Through the analysis of this case study, the essay challenges well-established categories such as compilation and found footage film and addresses the connection between recycled images, memory and identity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8e678e8da95e4397a4d033b92c7800b92022-12-22T03:41:41ZengUniversity of BolognaCinergie2280-94812017-06-01611758110.6092/issn.2280-9481/73916610“Accidental” Postproduction and Acts of Remembering in Stand By For Tape Back-up, by Ross SutherlandChiara Grizzaffi0Libera università di lingue e comunicazione IULMThe essay analyses the film Stand By For Tape Back-up, by Ross Sutherland, which presents a “double gesture of postproduction”. On the one hand, there is Sutherland’s grandfather random, accidental recording on a videotape of several televisual fragments, that become the remainders through which the author reconstructs not only the traces of the processes of selection and consumption of his beloved grandfather, but also his own spectatorial experience. On the other hand, there is the performative gesture of Sutherland himself: as I aim to demonstrate, through the repetition, the reuse and the repurposing of those fragments Sutherland obsessively rewrites his history and redefines his own identity. Through the analysis of this case study, the essay challenges well-established categories such as compilation and found footage film and addresses the connection between recycled images, memory and identity.https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/7391Stand By For Tape Back-upRoss Sutherlandpostproduction |
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| title | “Accidental” Postproduction and Acts of Remembering in Stand By For Tape Back-up, by Ross Sutherland |
| title_full | “Accidental” Postproduction and Acts of Remembering in Stand By For Tape Back-up, by Ross Sutherland |
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| title_short | “Accidental” Postproduction and Acts of Remembering in Stand By For Tape Back-up, by Ross Sutherland |
| title_sort | accidental postproduction and acts of remembering in stand by for tape back up by ross sutherland |
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