Symposium

To kick off the symposium, we look back at the conditions of dissemination of a corpus of films shown in Montreal in the 1980s, before being acquired by a collector and subsequently forming a Fonds in our collections. Some of the films in this collection have been reused to commission works by animation and experimental filmmakers.

With Marcel Jean, Élisabeth Meunier and Guillaume Lafleur of the Cinémathèque québécoise
In French

Four presentations highlighting some reuse and restoration gestures transforming the way we look at cinematic works.

Moderation : André Habib of Université de Montréal

Alpe Adria Underground!
With Matevž Jerman and Ivan Nedoh of the Slovenska Kinoteka
In English
20 min.

Météores : geste de réemploi par la création expérimentale à partir du fonds d’archives méditerranéennes Katsakh
With Ghada Sayegh of the Université St-Joseph de Beyrouth
In French
20 min.

Colourisation, Tutankhamun and the Film Archive (virtual presentation)
With Elizabeth Watkins of the University of Leeds
In English
20 min.

Unlearning Ethnography: A Third Cinema Approach to Working with Sound and Visuals from Nigeria's National Audiovisual Archive
With Didi Cheeka of Nigeria’s National Audiovisual Archive, Lagos
In English
20 min.

DISCUSSION

How do restored films transform the way we see them? How does cinema's heritage make us see our world differently?

Moderation : Caroline Fournier of the Cinémathèque suisse

Restoration as Creation
With Peter Bagrov of the George Eastman Museum and Jeanne Pommeau of the National Film Archive, Prague
In English
30 min.

Archivo Memoria: Reapropiación y Reflexión desde el Cine Casero
With Tania López Espinal of the Cineteca Mexico
In Spanish
20 min.

Reimagining Taiyupian: Bridging Archival Heritage and Contemporary Narratives in Taiwanese Cinema
With Yen-hsuan Huang of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute – CANCELED

replaced by
Réimaginer l'archive
with Erin Weisgerber, cinéaste, Montréal
In English
20 min.

DISCUSSION

Rediscovering a forgotten aspect of cinematography offers a new understanding of our cinematic heritage.

Moderation : Louis Pelletier of the Université de Montréal

Archival Interventions: Remixing Hungarian Home Movies
With Lucy Szemetova of the University of Edinburgh – CANCELED
In English
20 min.

Crossing the Seventh Gate: Archival Re-appropriation and Re-collection in Moroccan Cinema
With Bouchra Assou of Dhakira Collective, Montréal and Maroc
In English
20 min.

Film and Reality, ou comment l’un des tout premiers films de compilation a été rendu possible par l’émergence de la FIAF
With Christophe Dupin of FIAF
In French
20 min.

A Feminist Lens: Reframing Collaboration Between Archives and Scholars with the 1973 Women & Film Festival International
With Natania Sherman of TIFF and Cléo Sallis-Parchet of York University, Toronto
In English
20 min.

DISCUSSION

History of cinema also tells the story of its practices and the means it uses to represent what escapes the visual mainstream.

Moderation : Drika de Oliveira of the Museu de Arte moderna, Rio de Janeiro

History of Films on Filmmaking
With Dimitrios Latsis of the University of Alabama
In English
20 min.

La Pologne en mémoire
With Ania Szczepanska and Marie-Charlotte Téchené of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
In French
20 min.

Cavalcanti: A Man and the Cinema
With Carlos Augusto Calil of the Cinemateca Brasileira
In English
20 min.

DISCUSSION

For mysterious reasons, films become invisible, but the ingenuity of researchers and creators can bring them to light again.

Moderation : Nicolas Dulac of the Cinémathèque québécoise

A Long Journey of Demystification of Historical Spectres: Media Transition, Artistic Transformation, and Open Access of Taiwan Film Studio Newsreels (1945–1985)
With Wood Lin of the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute - Taiwan International Documentary Festival
In English
20 min.

Mining the Archive – A Look at the Various Challenges Involved in Using Archival Material
With Anke Hanh of the Deutsche Kinemathek and Rainer Rother of Berlinale Classics
In English
20 min.

Argentine Intervening the Past: Sucesos Intervenidos and the Power of Archive Reuse
With Paula Félix Didier of the Museo del cine, Buenos Aires
In English
20 min.

Restoring the Past, Funding the Future
With Matej Strnad of The National Film Archive, Prague
In English
20 min.

DISCUSSION

How does cinema become an instrument of memory?

Moderation : Chantal Partamian of the Cinémathèque québécoise

Fermenting Film
With Michael Loebenstein of the Austrian Film Museum – CANCELED
In English
20 min.

Cartographier l’absence
With Nour Ouayda, filmmaker
In French
20 min.

Genealogía y preservación de películas (de segunda mano) en América Latina
With Carolina Cappa of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, San Sebastián
In Spanish
20 min.

Aproximaciones contemporáneas al archivo en la Cinemateca de Bogotá
With Ricardo Cantor Bossa of the Cinemateca de Bogotá
In Spanish
20 min.

DISCUSSION

The cinema archive is both alive and irreducible in its forms.

Moderation : Guillaume Lafleur of the Cinémathèque québécoise

Archives cinématographiques et audiovisuelles africaines entre réemploi et valorisation : cas de la création de nouveaux films, « Thomas SANKARA : l’Humain », « Hakilitan, ou mémoire en fuite » et « Red Africa »
With Léonce Tira of the Cinémathèque Africaine de Ouagadougou
In French
20 min.

« Canciones para después de una guerra » (B. Martín Patino, 1971-1976): el documental de montaje, los archivos, y las nuevas maneras de observar el pasado
With Valeria Camporesi of the Filmoteca Española
In Spanish
20 min.

Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice
With Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin
In English
20 min.

Posthumous Cinema: Unfinished Films in the Archives
With Monika Kin Gagnon of Concordia University, Montreal
In English
20 min.

DISCUSSION