Film Curatorship – Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace
David Francis author Paolo Cherchi Usai author Alexander Horwath author Michael Loebenstein author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien
Published:7th Aug '20
Should be back in stock very soon
What are the major issues and challenges that film archives, cinémathèques, and film museums are bound to face in the digital age and at a time when there is an expectation of access on demand? What is curatorship, and what does it imply in the context of film preservation and presentation? Is there a concept of “cinema event" that transcends the idea of film as “content” or “art” in the era of information?
Film Curatorship is an experiment: a collective text, a montage of dialogues, conversations, and exchanges among four professionals representing three generations of film archivists and curators. It calls for an open philosophical and ethical debate on fundamental questions the profession must come to terms with in the twenty-first century.
The first edition of this book was jointly published with Le Giornate del Cinema muto, Pordenone, Italy.
The second edition features a new preface by the authors.
A fascinating examination of the nature of cinema itself. * Sight & Sound *
The volume on hand is actually about curatorship in the original sense: how people build up a collection of (art) objects and related materials, take care of the corpus created, and show parts of it in a way that makes sense of the objects and thus helps create further levels of enlightenment and meaning. * CinemaScope *
ISBN: 9783901644825
Dimensions: 199mm x 169mm x 16mm
Weight: 386g
240 pages