Affect and (Audio)visual Traces of the Past in Estonian Film Archive

The seminar explores the historical footage and photography of the Stalinist period, dealing with the Second World War and the Holocaust in Estonia from the Estonian Film Archive, to analyse how newsreels, film chronicles and photos create an affective collective memory of the past, the aim of which was to legitimise the Soviet regime in Estonia. How can such historical footage and photography function as a multifaceted trace of the past? How is affect created in these documentary artefacts, and what is it mobilised for?