Cutting through history: Found Footage in Avant-garde Filmmaking
Cut: film as found object in contemporary video, 2004, pp. 13-28
Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2004
A historical survey of found-footage film and video, from pioneer Joseph Cornell through Bruce Conner to more recent artists like Abigail Child, Martin Arnold and Craig Baldwin.
ITEM 2004.090 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty – Esfir Shub
The Great Road
Rose Hobart – Joseph Cornell
A Movie – Bruce Conner
The Great Blondino – Robert Nelson
Cowboy and "Indian" Film – Raphael Montanex Ortiz
Newsreel
Loose Ends – Chick Strand
Decodings – Michael Wallin
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son – Ken Jacobs
Perfect Film
Public Domain – Hollis Frampton
The Ties that Bind – Su Friedrich
Peggy and Fred in Hell – Leslie Thornton
Old Worldy
Covert Action – Abigail Child
Removed – Naomi Uman
piece touchee – Martin Arnold
passage a l'acte
Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America – Craig Baldwin
The Zapruder Footage – Keith Sanborn