2010년대 한국 다큐멘터리의 ‘아카이브적 전환‘과 벤야민적 역사쓰기: <논픽션 다이어리>, <88/18>, <순환하는 밤>

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This paper characterizes the wide-ranging uses of archival of found footage in the contemporary Korean documentary since the 2010s as the ‘archival turn,’ while also arguing for its two implications. First, this term suggests that the extensive uses of found footage allow filmmakers to develop other modes of documentary filmmaking—compilation documentary and the essay film—besides the participatory mode distinguished by the supremacy of the camera’s on-the-spot witnessing of reality. Second, this term indicates that Walter Benjamin’s idea of historiography is shared by the filmmakers, as their appropriation and manipulation of found footage are motivated by the desire to endow it with a new historical perspective in relation to their engagement with the politics of the present. Drawing on Non-fiction Diary (Jung Yoon-suk, 2013), 88/18 (KBS Sports, 2018), and Cyclical Night (Paik Jongkwan, 2016), this paper demonstrates the ways in which these two implications are linked to and activate Benjamin’s key concepts.

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