The specific esthetic of these camera tools, which have a fixed lens and shutter speed, I often use as a creative device and even enhance this in the editing. Some videos are shot on iPad, others on iPhone or pocket cameras. In these works, I try to draw formal and conceptual connections between the act of filming with while on the move, and creating subjective navigable spaces that both respond to my own experience and that I can share with the audience in some form or other. Most of these are short or very short works that explore travel and mobility and the poetic and more abstract potential of mobile cinema. Last but not least, working with found-footage presents me with a broad spectrum of possible storytelling techniques, including irony and parody, which makes it a really fun genre to work in. I love working with this kind of found-footage, and I try to do so following Walter Benjamin's motto that “the true method of making things present is to represent them in our space, not to represent ourselves in their space” (The Collector, 1999, p. Many found-footage films operate as moving image catalogues for a so-far undervalued film antiquarium of 16mm films and the many lesser known film genres that were shot on this format, such as industrial films, mental hygiene films, educational films, ethnographic films and home movies. In contrast to our society’s growing amnesia with regards to analogue film and analogue filmmaking practices, found-footage films remind us of this important heritage. With almost all analogue film disappearing, found-footage films have become an important contribution to the preservation and appreciation of our celluloid past.
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