Abstract
Films compiled from archival footage unsettle assumptions about film and photography’s ability to capture truth—and the archive’s ability to contain it—through a critical practice of pirating. Sandhya Suri’s Around India with a Movie Camera, Rona Sela’s Looted and Hidden: Palestinian Archives in Israel, and Kamal Aljafari’s Recollection manipulate images from archives to expose the technical and institutional manipulations within colonial propaganda, posing questions about how and when visual evidence becomes truth, with implications for mobile phone eyewitness videos today—and also deepfakes in viral disinformation.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1055–1083 |
| Journal | Social Research |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - Dec 2022 |
Keywords
- Archive
- Palestine
- India
- colonialism
- piracy
- Documentary
- film and media studies
- History