“真实再现真实”的意义变迁:纪录片中的私人残存影像

Change in Trends of “Representing the Real with the Real”: Found Footage in Contemporary Documentary Films

数字媒体与互联网信息技术使我们的生活世界迅速被大量数字影像捕获和包围。在这种媒介背景下,残存影像以往在纪录片中被视为天然稀缺的"是其所是"状态的应用,其意义也发生了改变。通过回顾"残存影像"概念的发展历程以及分析近年两部纪录电影,可以发现残存影像在当下的纪录片创作与观看中重新建构了超越于影像所复制的声画元素承载的事实性信息之上的合法性,指向了新的媒介环境下建构与表述自我的意识材料。

Nowadays we are surrounded by enormous digital images in the condition of digital media and ICT technology.By this means,found footage has undergone significant change of meaning considered its taken-for-granted application in documentary films in the age of mass media.By revisiting the conceptual development of"found footage"and textual analysis of two recent documentary films,the reconstruction of a transcending legitimacy of found footage over indexical information of audiovisual representation is noticed,aiming the new materials of self-construction and self-expression.