Masterclass by Jaimie Baron. On October 15, at 2:00 pm, at Batalha Centro de Cinema, Room 1. Duration: 60 minutes.
A frequent function of archival filmmaking is the visual articulation of time’s passage, in other words, of change over time. In my earlier work, I discussed the experience of “temporal disparity” as a constituent aspect of the “archive effect.” Sometimes, however, temporal disparities may accumulate, revealing not simply difference but, rather, transformation. The technologically enabled ability to store audiovisual fragments of present moments in expectation of future retrospection has led some moving image artists to actively produce and store images in anticipation of a retrospective gaze that will reveal what cannot be seen in the present, a move similar to that of burying a time capsule. Indeed, the experience of sequential differences may produce a revelatory perception of time inaccessible through any other means. I refer to this form of filmmaking as “archival anticipation,” a looking forward to the promise of looking back.