Between a forced migration and a postcinematographic transition. Cinema, museum, and media archaeology
Abstract
Considering the usual presence of the technology and the dispositive of cinema in the works of some contemporary artists, this text analyses the way cinema history has been exposed in museums and the exhibition halls in recent decades. The interest in materiality is interpreted not only as a solution to the usual problems related to the different types of experience and temporality in the spaces of the cinema and the museum, but also as the application of some of the epistemological presuppositions related to the media archaeology. The text explores the characteristics of this archaeological gaze contrasting it with more traditional exhibition forms in film museums. To illustrate its arguments, the text will first mention some cases of art galleries and historical and contemporary exhibitions before discussing, in its final part, the way the work of the Spanish filmmaker José Val del Omar is exhibited in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía after the recent reorganization of the permanent collection in late 2021.
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