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The project "Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice" continues. In the first months of the project, some 40 participants, including Goethe Institute stipend holders discussed how to approach a film archive that has 8,000 titles and were invited to realize projects based upon it: film series, new films, installations, exhibitions, DVDs, books, lectures, performances and soundworks. The films they are examining will be remade or digitalized, and then made accessible for the first time or again. The project raises many questions: What is a film archive? Does it only consist of film copies or also of the stories which accompany them? What does "access" mean? How does a film change when seen from a contemporary perspective? How can a collection that considers itself as a changeable expression of curatorial practice be described? These questions will stay with us until June 2013 – when we will present the results to the public at a festival – and beyond. You can follow the project's progress at the cinema and on our website, or subscribe to our newsletter by writing to livingarchive@arsenal-berlin.de.
Next public screening: 16.1., program tba
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