October 1, 2025Open Access

A Diffractive Approach to Archive Film Performativity

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Article examines archival footage's performativity in feminist cinema, revealing meanings through diffractive analysis.

Archival footage disrupts linear narratives, reshaping historical perceptions through performativity.
Analysis of Vlad Petri’s and Maryam Tafakory’s films highlights material-discursive entanglements in feminist cinema.
Studying sound, image, and text reveals the political agency embedded in filmic elements and their narratives.
Diffractive reading underscores the dynamic reshaping of history and memory in the interplay of archival content.

Ruxandra Maria Ghițescu (2025) studied this question.

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