Programming, Curating and Reconstruction as Elements of a Performative Practice of Film Historiography

在媒体文化反身性历史化的大背景下，电影档案的意义日益凸显，而电影影像在数字网络中的流通也起着决定性的作用。在电影档案、电影院和展览实践交汇的地方，本项目特别关注记忆、记忆功能与电影美学之间的关系。起点是由策展节目的概念形成的，它构成了一种表现和电影史学的媒介，这是一个迄今为止在以前的研究中很大程度上被忽视的概念。该项目提出了一个问题，即电影节目的实践在多大程度上可以被理解为一种史学模式。本文通过对选定的电影和录像艺术机构的具体策展概念的考察，从比较的角度分析了这些机构的档案和收藏及其各自的保存和重建实践，从而回答了这些问题。该项目扩展了先前电影理论反思的视野，假设放映实践在美学上决定电影主题方面起着重要作用，例如，对于音乐作品的特定表演也是如此。鉴于这一假设，该项目借鉴了重要的案例研究，以考察有关开展档案工作和描绘档案馆藏的三个关键领域：实验电影/扩展电影，电影和视频装置以及策划电影节目。调查时间从20世纪70年代一直延伸到现在。

As film archives are gradually gaining in significance under the banner of the reflexive historicization of media culture, a process in which the circulation of film images in digital networks also plays a decisive role, the project pays particular attention to the relationship between memory and remembrance functions and film aesthetics at the place where film archives, cinemas and exhibition practice come together. The starting point is formed by the concept of the curated program as constituting a medium of representation and film historiography, a concept thus far largely neglected in previous research. The project raises the question of the extent to which the practice of film programming can be understood as a mode of historiography. It answers these questions based on an examination of concrete curatorial concepts from selected film and video art institutions, whose archives and collections and their respective preservation and reconstruction practices are analysed from a comparative perspective. Expanding the horizons of previous film theoretical reflections, the project works on the assumption that screening practice plays just an important role in aesthetically determining the subject of film as is the case for a particular performance of a musical piece for example. In light of this assumption, the project draws on significant case studies to examine three key areas with regard carrying out archive work and portraying archive holdings: experimental film/expanded cinema, film and video installations and curated film programs. The period of investigation extends from the 1970s to the present.