@article{ART002172162},
author={Nam, Soo-Young},
title={Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2016},
volume={49},
pages={55-86},
doi={10.17527/JASA.49.0.03}
TY - JOUR
AU - Nam, Soo-Young
TI - Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2016
VL - 49
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 55
EP - 86
SN - 1229-0246
AB - Having faced the overflow of different forms of documents, we have groped for meanings and roles of such archives. Especially, film images are deemed archive images to various parts of reality, as André Bazin implicates with analogy of mummification. This essay contends not only documentary but cinema in general are akin to testimonial acts, which focus on discursive aspects. Yet, close analysis of the nature of cinema(tograph), we hit upon the essence of archives: as filmic documents, like automatons locked up in images showing involuntary movements of body but archiving non-verbal events at the same time, cinematic images remain as documents of loss and the impossible, not just resuscitates some parts from the past in chronology.
Centering on Giorgio Agamben’s theory of testimony and archives, I employ cinematic discourses of movement to argue the archive is characterized as the failure of signification. Ironically such archives bear witness to irruptions of the ungovernable and the irrepresentable in the junction of the historical time and cinematic construction. Impossible as it may seem, it is the archive that makes any trials of testimony imperatives for survival. “Necessary archives” means we need some records of impossible living as a bare necessity to live out this time of inhumanity.
KW - André Bazin;archive;change mummified;event;Giorgio Agamben;instantaneous photograph;movement;Muselmann;necessity;testimony
DO - 10.17527/JASA.49.0.03
ER -
Nam, Soo-Young. (2016). Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 49, 55-86.
Nam, Soo-Young. 2016, "Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.49, pp.55-86. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.49.0.03
Nam, Soo-Young "Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 49 pp.55-86 (2016) : 55.
Nam, Soo-Young. Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable. 2016; 49 55-86. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.49.0.03
Nam, Soo-Young. "Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 49(2016) : 55-86.doi: 10.17527/JASA.49.0.03
Nam, Soo-Young. Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 49, 55-86. doi: 10.17527/JASA.49.0.03
Nam, Soo-Young. Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2016; 49 55-86. doi: 10.17527/JASA.49.0.03
Nam, Soo-Young. Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable. 2016; 49 55-86. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.49.0.03
Nam, Soo-Young. "Cinema as Necessary Archives : Between Silent Images and the Irrepresentable" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 49(2016) : 55-86.doi: 10.17527/JASA.49.0.03
