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On Impossibility: Finding Vietnam in a Jordanian-Soviet Film Archive
ARTMargins Pub Date : 2020-06-01 , DOI: 10.1162/artm_a_00261
Brynn Hatton

In 2014, an abandoned collection of over 900 16mm and 35mm film canisters was uncovered in a storage locker in Amman, Jordan. Initial findings show that the films were likely exported from Russia to Jordan between the late 1960s and early 1990s as part of a Soviet cultural exchange program, and among them are are a number of propaganda films made to highlight relations between Vietnam, Russia, and concurrent political struggles in the Arab Middle East. Work on the archive continues despite recent restrictions on researcher access levied by state custodians. This essay positions the entire archive as an aggregate object of transnational film history, rather than as a collection of individual works, in order to illuminate its function in the late 1960s as a cohesive geopolitical idea; a method that is both structurally mandated by present conditions of limited accessibility, and theoretically supported by historical context and affiliated projects initiated by artists and scholars working in Amman since 2014. I argue that the archive was conceptually formed in the political shadow of the Vietnam-American War and its local relationship to Palestinian liberation. As an ‘idea,’ the archive was shaped principally by Vietnam, its imaginative hold on concurrent Third World solidarity movements, and its centrality in the conceptual geography of the transnational 1960s-70s.

中文翻译:

论不可能:在约旦-苏联电影档案馆中寻找越南

2014年,在约旦安曼的一个储物柜中发现了一个废弃的超过900个16mm和35mm胶片罐的收藏。初步调查结果显示,作为苏联文化交流计划的一部分,这些电影很可能是在1960年代末至1990年代初从俄罗斯出口到约旦的,其中包括一些宣传电影,以突显越南,俄罗斯与其他国家之间的关系。阿拉伯中东的政治斗争。尽管最近国家监管机构对研究人员的访问进行了限制,但存档工作仍在继续。本文将整个档案库定位为跨国电影历史的一个整体对象,而不是单个作品的集合,以阐明其在1960年代后期作为凝聚性地缘政治思想的功能;这种方法在结构上受当前访问受限的条件所强制,并且在理论上受到自2014年以来在安曼工作的艺术家和学者发起的历史背景和相关项目的支持。我认为该档案概念上是在越南的政治阴影下形成的,美国战争及其与巴勒斯坦解放的局部关系。作为一个“想法”,该档案馆主要由越南塑造,它对同时进行的第三世界团结运动具有想象力,并在1960-70年代跨国概念地理中处于中心地位。我认为,档案馆在概念上是在越美战争及其与巴勒斯坦解放的地方关系的政治阴影下形成的。作为一个“想法”,该档案馆主要由越南塑造,它对同时进行的第三世界团结运动具有想象力,并在1960-70年代跨国概念地理中处于中心地位。我认为,档案馆在概念上是在越美战争及其与巴勒斯坦解放的地方关系的政治阴影下形成的。作为一个“想法”,该档案馆主要由越南塑造,它对同时进行的第三世界团结运动具有想象力,并在1960-70年代跨国概念地理中处于中心地位。
更新日期:2020-06-01
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