Anne's Frank sapnai romiųjų naktį: indeksiškumo pažadas ir rastos medžiagos kinas
Anne Frank’s Dreams on the Night of the Meek: The Promise of Indexicality and Found Footage Film

Summary/Abstract: The article scrutinises the double indexicality of found footage films that use de- caying film stock (or the effects of the decay) in their exploration of the historical imagination. “Psalm III: Night of the Meek” (2002) by Phil Solomon is a good example of how the double-edged indexicality of the deformed surface of appropri- ated and recycled film fragments throws into doubt the stability of pop-images. In this way, materials intended to preserve historical memory are used to expose the impenetratability of the screen. Fragments and images, i.e. the ruins of main- stream films, which disappear on the ruining and deforming film surface, resist re-collecting and museification. What this kind of footage film thus presents is the visual regime of historical memory that tends to work against the grain of both representational and mourning logic of cinematic visuality.

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