Cinema in the museum: some ideas about the exhibition Action-Cinema in Colombia at the National Museum

Abstract

The essay, departing from the tour of the exhibition Action-Cinema in Colombia, proposes a montage of texts that reflect on the death of cinema; the gaze of surveillance and the panopticon; the camera as a weapon; the destiny of national cinema; the relationship between image and collective history; the possibility of transforming the incoherent flow of recorded images into collective heritage through memory enhanced by digital support and the creative reuse of archival material. Finally, we glimpse the image of a Frankenstein cinema that, assembled through montage, narrates life once again.