Found Footage: Cinema Exposed at Eye Filmmuseum | Exploring Media Art & Film Installations
Discover how artists transform archival film and internet visuals into original works at Eye Filmmuseum.
"Found Footage: Cinema Exposed" was the groundbreaking inaugural exhibition in Eye Filmmuseum's new building, showcasing artists who innovatively recontextualize existing visual material. This exploration delves into how filmmakers utilize archives, the internet, television, and DVDs to craft new and original cinematic and art installations. The exhibition highlighted a fascination with transforming found film fragments into compelling new works.
About Found Footage: Cinema Exposed at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam
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Exhibition summary
Found Footage: Cinema Exposed was the inaugural exhibition in Eye Filmmuseum's new building, exploring how artists and filmmakers utilize and recontextualize existing visual material from archives, the internet, television, and DVDs. The exhibition showcased the fascination with working with found films and image fragments to create new original works.
Curatorial context
Found Footage: Cinema Exposed marked the spectacular opening of Eye's new exhibition space on the IJ waterfront, showcasing how artists and filmmakers creatively repurpose existing visual material. The exhibition highlighted the process of using film archives, internet content, television broadcasts, and DVDs as raw material, imbuing these found fragments with new meanings in contemporary films, installations, and presentations.
Participating artists included Bruce Conner, Douglas Gordon, Aernout Mik, Christoph Girardet, David Claerbout, Anri Sala, Pablo Pijnappel, Bill Morrison, Matthias Müller, Gianikian/Ricci Lucchi, Wolf Vostell, and Joachim Koester. Mik and Girardet specifically designed an installation based on the Eye collection. The exhibition was accompanied by an English catalog and a thematic film program in the museum's cinemas, featuring works by artists like Gustav Deutsch, Bill Morrison, Péter Forgács, Harun Farocki, Phil Solomon, Martin Arnold, and Deimantas Narkevicius.
Admission and ticket notes
The page mentions that visitors could experience a thematic film program in Eye's cinema, which was an extension of the exhibition. Further ticketing details are not provided on this page, but it was the inaugural exhibition in the new building, implying standard museum entry might apply. Specific exhibition tickets are not detailed here, and visitors are directed to a general archive link for older exhibitions or support the museum via the Eye Society, rather than specific exhibition booking information for this past event.
Found Footage: Cinema Exposed key exhibition facts
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Venue
Eye Filmmuseum
Current status
Open now
Exhibition schedule
From Jan 5, 1960
Artist line / attribution
The exhibition featured artists such as Bruce Conner, Douglas Gordon, Aernout Mik, Christoph Girardet, David Claerbout, Anri Sala, Pablo Pijnappel, Bill Morrison, Matthias Müller, Gianikian/Ricci Lucchi, Wolf Vostell, and Joachim Koester. Aernout Mik and Christoph Girardet designed a special installation.
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