Film Curatorship

by Usai, Paolo Cherchi

• ISBN13: 9783901644245
• ISBN10: 3901644245
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Austrian Film Museum

Summary

What are the major issues and challenges 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?Film Curatorshipneither offers a scholarly analysis, nor attempts to provide definitive answers to a complex situation involving aesthetic as well as technological, economic and political issues. As a collective text, a montage of dialogues, conversations and exchanges between four professionals representing three generations of film archivists and curators, this book calls for an open philosophical and ethical debate on fundamental questions the profession must come to terms with. What is curatorship, and what does it imply in the context of film preservation and presentation? Is there a concept of the "film artifact" that transcends the idea of film as "content" or "art" in the information age?The four authors of Film Curatorshiphave agreed to lay bare their concerns, visions, and strategies in a multi-faceted brainstorming session, aimed at fostering an open, non-dogmatic debate on the relationship of film to other forms of moving image and its presentation and preservation in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

The Work Print

Prologue: The Vienna Sessions. December 31, 2005

What's the Problem?

Film as Artefact and Museum Object

Presentation and Performance

Curatorial Values: Two Case Studies

Archival Control

Content, Platforms, and the User

Film Curatorship: The Making of a Definition

Film Curatorship: A Definition

Glossary of Terms

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