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

Film Curatorship – Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace cover

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