In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveologythe reuse recycling appropriation and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakersprovides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not function simply as a place where moving images are preserved Russell examines a range of films alongside Benjamins conceptions of memory document excavation and historiography. She shows how city films such as Nicole Vdrss Paris 1900 1947 and ThomampampnbspAndersens Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003 reconstruct notions of urban life and uses Christian Marclays The Clock 2010 to draw parallels between critical cinephilia and Benjamins theory of the phantasmagoria.