Documentary recordings come in all sizes and shapes: observation of events; portraits of personalities, known and unknown; portraits of place; streams of visual consciousness told by filmmakers about their own lives and the lives of others. Documentary recordings which physically survive the ravages of time are nonetheless conceptually transformed by the ever-shifting currents of human knowledge, fashion, and temporal experience.

Electronic cinema cannot truly alter the ephemeral nature of the recorded image; however, it can provide new and satisfying ways to make, re-use, perceive, and otherwise engage with cinematic content...