Entering the Frame is the first complete study of the cinema of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi pioneers of archival and foundfootage films that testify to war genocide and colonialism in the twentieth century. It explores their early performancebased scented films of the 1970s before focusing on the historical films such as From the Pole to the Equator for which they are best known. The book analyses how Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi manipulate rare footage through rephotographing handtinting and altering film speeds to produce work of an otherworldly quality.Retrospectives of the films of Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi at the Jeu de Paume in Paris 2006 and at MoMA in New York 2009 have signalled international recognition at the highest level as have appraisals by leading scholars of cinema such as Scott MacDonald and Raymond Bellour. Their work is unusual in attracting different audiences and in relating art practices to wider ethical historical and political issues. Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi have transformed old documentary footage into works that resonate in debates about postcolonialism as well as about the documentary form the corporeality of the viewing experience and the metamorphoses of cinema.The volume includes a preface by the cultural historian Ruth BenGhiat Professor of Italian and History at New York University.