Found Footage Magazine: Issue 2 - Special on Barbara Hammer (Paperback)

Special on Barbara Hammer: Audacious Appropriations: Barbara Hammer’s First Half-Century, by Greg Youmans

The scope, inventiveness, and audacity of Barbara Hammer’s career compel us to expand the frame from found footage toappropriation more broadly. Her appropriations of material from audiovisual archives (what is traditionally called found footage) came after and alongside more fundamental appropriations of various cinematic means of production, from film cameras and optical printing to a range of digital hardware and software, as well as the generic codes and practices of pornography and documentary. And these actions have in turn always been bound up with her appropriations of physical space: in film after film, Hammer wrests space (and time) away from heteropatriarchal coding and control.

• Interview with Barbara Hammer, by Matthew Levine
• Becoming Visible, by Abigail Child

Essays:

• Two Films by Jean-Claude Bustros, by Dirk de Bruyn
• Copyright in a Nutshell for Found Footage Filmmakers, by Brian L. Frye
• Images Beyond Time: Cinema as Photographic Archive, by Clint Enns
• History Decays into Images not Stories: A Journey with Walter Benjamin from Future to Past, by Nazare Soares
• Indexing versus Taxonomy: I, Dalio—or The Rules of the Game and The Thoughts That Once We Had, by Jonathan Rosenbaum

And Also…

• View them for what they are, reveal what they are hiding: A Conversation with Michael Robinson, by Alejandro Bachmann
• Somewhere I have never travelled: Engram of Returning, by André Habib
• The Last Broadcast, by Peter Snowdon
• Something Old, Something New—two DVDs from Gustav Deutsch, by Scott MacDonal

Film Reviews: Cut'n'Paste:

by Albert Alcoz, Matthew Levine, Mark J. Ostrowski, Marta Álvarez and César Ustarroz

• Standby for Tape Back-Up (Ross Sutherland, 2015)
• Wild Currents (Stephen Broomer, 2014)
• The Great Flight (Carolina Astudillo, 2014)
• By the Time We Got to Expo (Eva Kolcze & Philip Hoffman, 2015)
• Parallax Paradox (Joan Leandre, 2009-2014)
• Cut Out (Guli Silberstein, 2014)
• The Tin Hat (Giuseppe Boccassini, 2014)
• Miss Cinema – Archivio Mossina (Paolo Simoni, Rinaldo Censi, Ilaria Ferretti & Mirco Santi / Home Movies Italy, 2015)
• (Self) exhibitions (Florencia Aliberti, 2012-2015)
• A Film Remembered (Andrés Duque, 2015)
• Second Sighted (Deborah Stratman, 2014)

Book Reviews:

• Scratch, Crackle & Pop! (Steven Woloshen, 2013), by Albert Alcoz
• Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-garde (Karia M. Cabañas, 2014), by James Luce

Interview with Vicki Bennett, by Kenneth Goldsmith