THE CULTURAL MEMORY OF CLASSICAL CINEMA IN THE DIGITAL AGE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7391449Keywords:
black box, white cube, cultural memory, prosthetic memory, archival art, analogAbstract
The Cultural Memory of Classical Cinema in the Digital Age.
The centenary (1995) and the turn of the millennium (2000) constitute Cinema as a medium of the past and from the past. Aged 100 and affected by the arrival of new technologies, we ask ourselves the question: is classical Cinema a human value worth preserving in the digital age? What role do artists- in their collaboration with art museums and galleries- play in this process? The digital threat to classical cinematography has caused many reactions among artists and filmmakers working with analog techniques. As a response, they engaged Cinema’s materiality and historicity: their renewed interest was not only in the personalities (directors, actors, etc.) but mainly in the tangible dimension and hidden mechanism that made Cinema create moving images: the celluloid, the cinematic apparatus (projector, screen, etc.), and also the phenomenology of film viewing in a theatrical setting, as well as film archives and the memories that movies had instilled. The cultural memory of classical Cinema in the digital age refers to these projects that create a tangible connection with Cinema at the center of cultural change. The global discourse of the research is completed with a project that focuses on locality and represents the source that inspired the current study, only to conclude that probably the most precious human value behind analog Cinema is a united community that shares a common sentiment: their sincere love for Cinema overall.
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