AFTER THE DEATH OF FILM: WRITING THE NATURAL WORLD IN THE DIGITAL AGE

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Abstract

This essay argues that the North American cinematic avant-garde's interest in celluloid film's materiality goes to the heart of our culture's current anxiety about the digital ability to seamlessly transcode, endlessly reproduce and recklessly disseminate images of all stripes. It traces the ways in which celluloid film's capacity for registering the marks made by the artist's hand, natural elements and accidents function as writing in the work of filmmakers Greta Snider, David Gatten, Lynn Kirby among others.

At first glance, the current cinematic avant-garde's interest in film's ...

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