ABSTRACT
This chapter explores found-footage filmmaking both within and outside of the archival context. It perceives the archive as a birthplace (or place of rebirth), where the raw material of archival films is transformed into new products. This chapter also argues that found-footage filmmaking, as a contemporary practice that advocates a ‘return’ to the filmic source, is by nature an act of resistance and revisionism, and foregrounds the role the archive plays in this process.
