An analysis of the body in the films of Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi in the representation of the corporeal in colonial archival footage and analysis of the body of the film in the materiality of the found footage and its manipulation to produce new work. A discussion of the political and aesthetic choices of the filmmakers that questions arguments in Susan Sontag's 'Regarding the Pain of Others'. An appraisal of the work of pioneers of archival and found footage films made in the period from the late 1970s to 2001.
