Critical Writing Index

Cutting through history: Found Footage in Avant-garde Filmmaking

by Rob Yeo

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 – Joseph Cornell

Rose Hobart – Bruce Conner

A Movie – Robert Nelson

The Great Blondino – Raphael Montanex Ortiz

Cowboy and "Indian" Film – Chick Strand

Newsreel – Michael Wallin

Loose Ends – Ken Jacobs

Decodings – Hollis Frampton

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son – Su Friedrich

Perfect Film – Leslie Thornton

Public Domain – Abigail Child

The Ties that Bind – Naomi Uman

Peggy and Fred in Hell – Martin Arnold

Old Worldy – Craig Baldwin

Covert Action – Keith Sanborn

Removed

piece touchee

passage a l'acte

Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy

Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America

The Zapruder Footage