2024 | United States | Experimental,Archival,Performance,Short

Rage Against the Archive

  • 10 mins
  • Director | Anshul Roy
  • Writer | Anshul Roy
  • Producer | Anshul Roy

STATUS: Released

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“Rage Against the Archive” is an experimental browser-based film that critically probes how the New York Public Library’s website catalogs, displays and even sells dehumanizing ethnographic photos from the 19th-century colonial-era publication “The People of India,” questioning capitalism’s infusion with the archival process, and documents the “hacking” methodology used to insert different texts using HTML in a symbolic act of Electronic Civil Disobedience. Through artistic interventions, this film scrutinizes whether institutional archives perpetuate colonial exploitation and the camera's violence, raising ethical questions about how we, as a more conscientious society, should consume exploitative images online. 

Institutional Critique Digital Archives Colonial Photography