Counter-Archive

Introduction -- World souvenir: "Mr. K" and the Archives de la Planète -- "Keep your eyes open" : from pre-documentary to documentary film in the Kahn archive -- The counter-archive of cinematic memory : Bergsonism, la durée, and the everyday -- "No more written archives, only films" : early discourses and practices of the film archive -- The "anecdotal side of history" : temporality, film, and annales historiography -- Seeing "for the first time" : the rediscovery of the everyday in early French film theory -- Illuminations from the darkened "sanctuary" : reception of the Kahn films -- The aerial view : human geography, cosmopolitanism, and colonialism -- Conclusion : toute la mémoire du monde: the counter-archive beyond Kahn.