Punto de Vista Collection
Permanence of the Ephemeral
Permanencia de lo efímero (“Permanence of the Ephemeral”) accompanies the film series bearing the same name curated by Miquel Martí Freixas, which focuses on showing how filmmakers and artists have dealt with a new paradigm of films made with internet videos. The book is an extension of those concerns. It draws on and complements that programme. It takes those concerns as a starting point in order to question how cinema reappropriates images uploaded to the internet, as well as their narrative and ethical possibilities.
The texts included in the book are a brief introduction in Spanish to films that understand the internet as a catalyst for the use of digital archives. They are heterogeneous in form and language, both because their authors belong to different generations and because of their disparate ways of engaging with the internet as a tool for —self— representation.
The internet is presented as an eternal present where everything is stored. We travel alongside the authors through images hosted on YouTube (as a platform that precluded this type of cinema), only to explore Google Maps, Google Street View, Instagram, WhatsApp, Airbnb, Idealista, Twitch, and other virtual maps and image repositories.
With the reflections of Miquel Martí Freixas, Gala Hernández López, Dominic Gagnon, Manuela Gutiérrez Arrieta, Claudia Negro, Dennis Vetter, Kevin B. Lee, Daniel Natoli, Dácil Pérez, and Lého Galibert-Laîné, we move between the personal and the theoretical realms in terms of that great archive that is the internet, with all its chaos and complexity. Perspectives that stem from both their own and others’ processes, as consumers, creators, and producers of images; as editors and curators of the digital archive. Our trace online is ephemeral. And this publication is very aware of that, as are the filmmakers who write in it.
Inés Calero, editor
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