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Français FR. Ressources numériques en sciences humaines et sociales. This led to a back-and-forth email exchange over some long winter months, from November to April Over the last decade, however, the use of the term orphan film, popularized through the contagious efforts of people like Dan Streible, founder of the Orphan Film Symposium, seems to have taken prevalence, for film archivists, scholars, and programmers around the world, and in legal settings.
Abandoned, rare, neglected, almost-lost, unseen, or rediscovered, orphan films have gained a powerful resonance for motion picture preservation. Meant as a metaphor that strikes an emotional chord, the concept of orphanhood, for Streible, could at its best serve as an intellectual model for the study of media and culture writ large. Reading the exchange with Prelinger more than a decade later, it remains clear that the concept of ephemeral film has kept a relevance, especially in light of the notion of residual media now circulating in the fields of media studies and visual culture.
We may be just now indeed accessing and watching databases, as figures such as Geert Lovink argue. Increasingly preoccupied by the profound impact brought by the digital revolution, Prelinger has always kept his focus on access. Like a media archaeologist yet again, he suspects that the most interesting developments in the redefinition of our relationships to archives will arise from practices from the margins. Certainly the materiality of archaeological data allows a popular, accessible approach to the past […].
Any thoughts on this? For me they are triggers of memories, narratives and ideas. What this means in practice is that my ideas tend to arise from what I collect, witness and gather around me in an inductive, empirical process rather than a theoretical one.
Our predecessors and ourselves produce and discard media in all its forms almost as fast as we make garbage. It seems daunting or forbidding to stop and examine what lies in front of us, to freeze the flow, to take a snapshot and see what it reveals.