60 years after Arsenal was founded, the collection gives exemplary insights into our institution’s work, taking in both avant-garde and political cinema as well as the diversity of contemporary filmmaking. The collection encompasses features and documentaries as well as works of film and video art. Many of these titles were taken from the Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded programs. Arsenal Distribution distributes the films to cinemas, festivals, museums, galleries, universities and other cultural institutions in Germany and beyond. Since 2015, films from the archive have also been digitally restored and newly released.
The new online database can be found here.
Launch of the New Arsenal Online Database
From now on, you can research the around 10,000 films in our collection more easily and filter them according to different categories in our newly redesigned and restructured online film database. This new database replaces our old open access database, which was in use for over 30 years and was originally programmed by Ulrich Gregor himself. The picture shows the database page for the print with which the Arsenal film collection was started back in 1963 (luckily we have a new print of the film in the meantime, it’s also available as a DCP!).
