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A Movie by Jen Proctor (Jennifer Proctor, 2010-12)
Jennifer Proctor is an American filmmaker and media artist whose film and video work is associated with appropriation. Often seen as a kind of remake, A Movie by Jen Proctor is a recreation of Bruce Conner’s A MOVIE (1958), made up of video clips from YouTube and LiveLeak. Proctor’s work reconstitutes almost image by image Conner’s film, using the materials, tools and means specific to the Internet and digital culture. Proctor has thus reassembled a classic of found footage cinema by transferring the codes for appropriating popular images from television and the Castle Films catalogue to the abundant availability of digital images on line:
[T]he video provides a parallel narrative that explores the changes in historical and visual icons from 1958 to 2010 — and those images that remain surprisingly, and delightfully, the same. The work also comments on the pervasiveness of footage available for appropriation in an online world, and the way disparate threads in the YouTube and LiveLeak databases can be assembled to create “a movie”.[22]
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