Fragmenty, resztki i przekleństwo archiwum – o nostalgii w kulturze found footage
Fragments, Remnants and the Curse of the Archive: Nostalgia in the Culture of Found Footage

Summary/Abstract: Why is today’s culture so deeply attached to the past and focused on its own remnants, which have surprisingly quickly come to represent its creators’ main field of interest? Marzec explores this question by drawing on Jacques Derrida’s quasi-concept of the ‘spectre’ in order to interpret the artistic ‘found footage’ work of Bill Morrison and other artists fascinated by the unusually creative and productive force of disintegration. This interesting film genre, forever gazing into the abyss of archival resources, not only brings to light the traces of a reality that has long ceased to exist – it also inspires a deep sense of nostalgia in its viewers and points to the faint presence of the past in the present, but above all, it fetishizes remnants.

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