I am working with found footage in my Final Major project. The surrealists had a critical role in concept of appropriation. Andre Breton liked the idea of combining footage as he would travel between cinemas, never seeing the end of each film but effectively combining sequences from different films into a new timeline. Also, in some of the images in Nadja he is using the idea of the filmstill and collage to suggest movement.
Some further reading:
André Breton, Nadja (Paris: Gallimard, 1964), and
Breton, “As in a Wood.” L’age du cinema (1951) as reprinted in The Shadow and Its Shadows, ed. Paul Hammond (London: The British Film Insititute, 1991). As cited by Rony, Fatimah Tobing. The Quick and the Dead: Surrealism and the Found Ethnographic Footage Films of Bontoc Eulogy and Mother Dao: The Turtlelike. Camera Obscura. Jan2003, Vol. 18 Issue 52
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