Readymade - Found Film Videos With Forest Swords, DJ Donna Summer and Summer Camp

Thanks to the zillion-plus hours of weird old movies and TV shows on the internet, found footage - the art of rediscovering, reusing and recontextulising old video- is everywhere. Cinema magpies have been making found films for years. Joseph Cornell was banging this stuff out in the 1930s and everyone from Orson Welles to Woody Allen has had a go since. But music video might be the perfect home for this technique. Here are some recent favourites. Even though everyone now knows the once myste...

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