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Haunted by last season's video letters: amateur films performing spectrality

This is an assemblage using the film 'Four Siblings' as a basis to reflect on the notion of the artist as analyst in connection with amateurish practices. These are positioned as performative, as they co-create the family system. The video letters, shot on 8 mm and Super 8 films, were sent from my grandmother, who had emigrated to the United States after the Austrian State Treaty in 1955, to my great-grandmother, in Vienna, where the films were developed and watched. During that time three-quarters of all amateur film-makers were men. In the course of 'Four Siblings' the beautiful images are contrasted with issues of violence, rivalry, and ambivalence.
'Haunted by last season’s video letters: amateur films performing spectrality' is an attempt poetically to map non-linear memory. Spectrality, in its simultaneous presence and absence, is introduced to film media as soon as an archive is set up.
06/01/2017
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2021-04-15T13:18:12Z
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https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.282270
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2021-04-22T13:13:19Z
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2021-08-10T11:54:43Z
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12
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Journal for Artistic Research
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Haunted by last season's video letters