Exhibiting Film History – A colloquium of the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen (18.–20. 6.)

Film museums are concerned with preserving and presenting film history. But how can a museum do justice to the special features of the medium of film with its specific temporal and technical preconditions? How can film be exhibited as both an artistic product and a cultural and historical document, and how should it be contextualized? How do film museums meet the in part contradictory requirements of collecting and preserving, on the one hand, and presenting and conveying, on the other? How do they contribute to film-historical canonizations – and what is their relation to the "fringes" and "undercurrents" of a for the most part nationally oriented presentation of film history?