Look What I Found! - OPENING NIGHT

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…