The ephemeral blink of an eye

Material archives, digital files and the framing of memory

Authors

  • José Cláudio Siqueira Castanheira Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, RJ, Brasil; Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8926-8518

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2022.1.43298

Keywords:

Archive, Memory, Databases, Technocolonialism, Godard

Abstract

Jean-Luc Godard’s recent films, Adieu au Langage (2014) and Le Livre d’Image (2018), seem to amplify his already known concern with making cinema from cinematographic matter itself. In cinema, historically, the clash between singularity and standardization of experience has always been present. Today, complex systems of cultural legitimation that permeate the production chain work as filters for what can be seen and preserved as an archive. This work proposes some reflections on the fleetingness of the filmic experience present in the multiple processes of circulation and preservation of archives as a material framing of memory.

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Author Biography

José Cláudio Siqueira Castanheira, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, RJ, Brasil; Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.

Doutor em Comunicação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), em Niterói, RJ, Brasil, com estágio doutoral na McGill University - Canadá; meste em Comunicação pela Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. Professor do Departamento de Comunicação da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), RJ, Brasil, e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Ceará, CE, Brasil. 

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2022-07-06

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Castanheira, J. C. S. (2022). The ephemeral blink of an eye: Material archives, digital files and the framing of memory. Revista FAMECOS, 29(1), e43298. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2022.1.43298

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Vol. 29 No. 1 (2022): Single Volume

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DOSSIER - TECHNOLOGICAL & CULTURAL CHANGES IN THE DIGITAL ERA

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