Footage Redux: Revisiting Cartographic Captures of Time.

This article is an extension of an earlier published article authored by one of us. In our collaborative revisiting of this short essay on short films shot by action cameras, we not only want to extend on what was tentatively argued there, but we also want to take the practice of dialogic revisiting seriously. This, here, refers not only to our object – footage as the “raw” moving images of captured earlier movements that allow for (repetitious) replay – but also to our method of revisiting as a rewriting of thought. This latter form of intellectual replay incorporates a diffractive perspective. Diffraction as the Harawayian-Baradian reading of oeuvres through one another in order for new conceptualizations to come to the fore presents itself when, while revisiting our object, the philosophy of Bergson turns out to be (have been) a film-philosophy of video footage and a philosophy of the technology of action cameras. Thus, although the prefix “re” suggests a going back, a “retrograde movement” much despised by Bergson, it is intrinsically a moving forward for change, creativity, novelty.