As we sail into 2026, Millennium is proud to announce our first exhibition of the new year, Look What I Found! Found Footage Film & Video 1936-2026 a 90 year survey of re-appropriated media. The found footage film is generally regarded as being culled into existence through Joseph Cornell’s revolutionary fever dream Rose Hobart in 1936. In the time since then, film and video artists have utilized the techniques of appropriation, collage, montage and displacement to force new meaning into various media created with no such intention in mind. Works otherwise kitschy, anodyne, objective and industrial become in the hands of artists surreal, political, humorous and powerful. This transformation is a testament to the alchemical potential of moving image art, where the simple act of montage becomes a mystical synthesis, generating a whole greater than the sum of its parts. In found footage one finds the purest illustration of that magical mathematic formula of cinema, 1+1=3.
The exhibition will begin on Friday, January 16th, with a 16mm Found Footage Workshop at 7:00 PM. Participants will be invited to use our Steenbeck editing table and and splicers to create new found footage film from pieces of old nature films, industrials and educational reels from Millennium’s archive. This film, once completed, will be then included as a looping installation for the rest of the duration of the exhibition, opening the following night. To register for the workshop, please email info@millenniumfilm.org.
Saturday, January 17th is the Exhibition Opening at 7:00 PM, also featuring installation work from Mike Videopunk, Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Joe Wakeman. That same night at 8:00 PM we will screen contemporary found footage video works by the likes of Robert Mizaki, Nunet Clitandre, Vinatapes, Preston Spurlock, Animal Charm, and Gloria Chung.
Saturday January 24th will be the second screening, featuring all archival 16mm prints of found footage films from the Film-makers’ Cooperative, including films by Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Chick Strand, MM Serra, Christoph Janetzko, Bill Morrison, an Unknown Filmmaker, Mary Fillipo, Bruce Conner, and of course, the film that started it all, Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart.
January 17 - Exhibition Opening & Contemporary Found Footage Video
Opening: 7:00 PM
Screening 8:00 PM
Installation:
- Richard Spencer Getting Punched In The Face For An Hour Mike Videopunk VHS 60min
- The Urge To Collage Joe Wakeman VR Video 2 min
- Play Boy Tessa Hughes-Freeland Super8mm to Video, Pepper’s Ghost Viewing Booth 10 min
- Looping 16mm Found Footage Installation created by 1/16 Workshop Participants
January 17 Opening Night Screening:
Doors 7:00 PM
Films 8:00 PM
TICKETS
- Cosmic Crossroads Robert Mizaki 18 min
- Gentle Voices Nunet Clitandre 9 min
- Dwight Vinatapes 30 min
- Obscene Numerals Preston Spurlock 17 min
- Videoworks Vol. 1 Animal Charm 19 min
- TBA Gloria Chung
January 24 - Screening of 16mm Found Footage Films from the Film-makers' Cooperative
Doors: 7:00 PM
Films 7:30 PM
TICKETS
- Murder Psalm Stan Brakhage 17 min
- Perfect Film Ken Jacobs 22 min
- S1 - Christoph Janetzko 16 min
- The Film of Her - Bill Morrisson 12 min
- Cartoon Le Mousse - Chick Strand 12 min
- Peace O’Mind - Mary Fillippo 9 min
- Come Dance With Me - Unknown Filmmaker 6 min
- Mongoloid - Bruce Conner 3 min
- Rose Hobart - Joseph Cornell 19 min
- Just For You Girls MM Serra 2 min
TRT 96 min
This program is curated by Executive Director Joe Wakeman and Preston Spurlock for Millennium Film Workshop. Special Thanks to The Film-makers’ Cooperative, Video Databank, and MM Serra.