Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article proposes that the essay film, through its reflective and fragmentary approach to structuring text, moving image and sound and its mediation between film-maker and audience as a part of the way it ‘thinks through’ its material, presents both a distinct method and a unique history, from which to contextualize the changes the information age brings to cinema.The article expands the body of work that claims the essay film as a distinct genre and further explores the technological and narrative aspects of this mode of film-making, including the use and creation of ‘personal archives’ in the essay film; database film-making and essayistic methodology; memory, technology and the essay film. The research anticipates how this knowledge might be useful in thinking through cinema's future forms and how examples of contemporary practice demonstrate this.
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