Film Curatorship
Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace - 2nd Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 1. April 2020
Book
240 pages
978-3-901644-82-5 (ISBN)
Description
Das Buch von Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis, Alexander Horwath und Michael Loebenstein offeriert eine grundsätzliche Diskussion über das Medium Film und seine Vermittlung im Kontext von Museen und Cinémathèquen. Welche Fragen stellen sich Filmmuseen und -archive angesichts der Ablöse des analogen Films durch digitale Medien? Nach welchen Kriterien wird Film gesammelt, bewahrt, der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht? Das Buch "Film Curatorship" diskutiert - in Form von Dialogen zwischen Kuratoren und Archivaren dreier Generationen - Fragen von Kuratorenschaft und der Zukunft des filmischen Erbes und sucht eine Form der Auseinandersetzung jenseits des Medienpurismus oder der Zwänge des Marktes. Zweite Auflage mit einem neuen Vorwort der Autoren. (In englischer Sprache)
Reviews / Votes
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 * A fascinating examination of the nature of cinema itself. * Sight & Sound *More details
Persons
Paolo Cherchi Usai, *1957, is co-founder of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum and of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, and former Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (2004-2008). He directed Passio (2007), a film adaptation of The Death of Cinema (BFI Publishing, 2001). His latest book is Silent Cinema. A Guide to Study, Research and Curatorship (Bloomsbury, 2019). He is currently Director of the School of Film Preservation at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Italy.
David Francis OBE, *1935, was for 16 years Curator of the British National Film Archive, where he established the J. Paul Getty Jnr. Conservation Centre (Berkhamsted), and from 1991 until 2001 was Chief of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress, where he was responsible for the planning and design of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center's state-of-the-art Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia. His many publications include the groundbreaking study Chaplin: Genesis of a Clown (Quartet, 1977), written with Raoul Sobel. He is the founder (with Prof. Joss Marsh) of the Kent Museum of the Moving Image in Deal (United Kingdom), a not-for-profit museum that explores the deep history of the moving image.
Alexander Horwath, *1964 in Vienna, is an internationally acclaimed film curator and critic, former Director of the Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival (1992-1997), and former Director of the Austrian Film Museum (2002-2017). He is the author and (co-)editor of publications on American cinema of the 1960s and 70s, Austrian avant-garde film, and film-makers such as Josef von Sternberg, Michael Haneke, and Ruth Beckermann.
Michael Loebenstein, *1974 in Vienna, has worked as a freelance writer and critic, film programmer, and DVD author, and in 2004 joined the Austrian Film Museum as a curator and researcher. From 2011 to 2017 he was Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Since fall 2017 he is Director of the Austrian Film Museum. He currently serves as Secretary-General of FIAF - the International Federation of Film Archives.
David Francis OBE, *1935, was for 16 years Curator of the British National Film Archive, where he established the J. Paul Getty Jnr. Conservation Centre (Berkhamsted), and from 1991 until 2001 was Chief of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress, where he was responsible for the planning and design of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center's state-of-the-art Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia. His many publications include the groundbreaking study Chaplin: Genesis of a Clown (Quartet, 1977), written with Raoul Sobel. He is the founder (with Prof. Joss Marsh) of the Kent Museum of the Moving Image in Deal (United Kingdom), a not-for-profit museum that explores the deep history of the moving image.
Alexander Horwath, *1964 in Vienna, is an internationally acclaimed film curator and critic, former Director of the Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival (1992-1997), and former Director of the Austrian Film Museum (2002-2017). He is the author and (co-)editor of publications on American cinema of the 1960s and 70s, Austrian avant-garde film, and film-makers such as Josef von Sternberg, Michael Haneke, and Ruth Beckermann.
Michael Loebenstein, *1974 in Vienna, has worked as a freelance writer and critic, film programmer, and DVD author, and in 2004 joined the Austrian Film Museum as a curator and researcher. From 2011 to 2017 he was Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Since fall 2017 he is Director of the Austrian Film Museum. He currently serves as Secretary-General of FIAF - the International Federation of Film Archives.