Haptic Explorations of Archival Phantoms

Abstract

This article discusses issues raised by archival recreation. It presents the use of interventionist filmic methods such as haptics and détournement in the reinterpretation of archival footage, with a view to creating a new aesthetic object. The production of an experimental museum piece, Passage, based entirely on material from the ethnographic film archive at Moesgaard Museum in Denmark, is employed as a case study.