Film Curatorship
Archives, Museums and the Digital Marketplace
Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis, Alexander Horwath, Michael Loebenstein
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 Curatorship neither 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 artefact' that transcends
the idea of film as 'content' or 'art' in the information age?
The four authors of Film Curatorship have 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.
October 2008
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