An analysis of the erotico-exotic tendencies of found footage

 

Cooperating with the NIFFF for the fifth time, the CAN has invited two artists to present their research on found footage. This genre, which is currently proving extremely successful both with audiences and at a commercial level, seems at first glance to have come a long way from its experimental origins, created by the artistic avant-garde. Nevertheless, today’s found footage follows the same logic – a building-block of the fantasy genre – of pushing back and blurring the boundaries of fiction. The use of a certain cinematographic primitivism also serves as filiation.

 

The question of real fiction suited to the ethnological style will constitute one of the angles of research for the two artists, who will forge links between found footage and the notion of exoticism, a vehicle for fantasies and increased sensations. By looking at the current found footage phenomenon, which is voraciously eating into its unofficial Internet-based counterpart, and by trying to rethink the fantasies and ghosts springing up from the medium itself, Julia Perazzini and Valerio Scamuffa present a conference that is also inspired by exotic personal experiences around the globalisation of the genre.

 

In collaboration with Marie Villemin and Marie Léa Zwahlen