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Seven interactive essays on digital nonlinear storytelling
edited by Matt Soar & Monika Gagnon

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White Dust in the Online Archive


Posthumous cinema contends that a close investigation of archival film elements (such as storyboards, raw footage) and other fragments (such as notes, photographs, scripts) that themselves constitute the unfinished film, White Dust from Mongolia, can lead us toward the various themes Cha had hoped to develop in her film: memory, amnesia, speech, language. This initially involves gathering fragments in her constellations, which in her online archive, are searchable by medium, by title. Then, reassembling these remains.

For instance, one can view a 16mm film still from the unedited footage



alongside the storyboard drawings described as "Empty railroad tracks in station," and see her intentions for prior and subsequent scenes that were not yet realized on celluloid. She had descriptions for eighty-five shots in these storyboards.

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