Found Footage: Some Thoughts

Resumen

So, again in retrospect, what did I (intuitively) want or demand from the found film material? Firstly I sought a quality of mystery about an image - what I now talk about as a ‘latency’ – finding some aspect of the sequence that was not seen or intentionally put there by the original cinematographer and that, when re-combined in a different context, opened up new and surprising meanings.