Intermediality and Hispano-Argentine Experimental Film: Subverting Media, Transgressing Borders with Super 8
Center for Advanced Study
Levis Faculty Center--Music Room (208)
919 W. Illinois, Urbana
In 2010, MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires) held a retrospective of 1960s and 70s Super 8 films by Argentine experimental filmmakers Claudio Caldini and Narcisa Hirsch, in what seemed like an anachronistic and nostalgic look to a past technology. On the contrary, this event signaled a rebirth of Super 8 that is closely linked to the dissolution of the concept of medium as seen in an increasingly intermedial approach to the arts—a dissolution related to the current status of experimental film as diasporic and post-national. Just as their predecessors in the 1960s, contemporary Argentine filmmakers living in Spain use Super 8 to create hybrid films that freely mix media and blur the analog-digital divide in order to raise questions about memory, indexicality and transnationalism.
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CAS Fellow 2016-17