Cinematheque
A cinematheque (also: Cinemathek ) is one
- a collection of films ( film archive ; also: film library );
- a film museum ;
- the organizers of these collections or museums.
Cinematic libraries collect, restore and lend historically significant films, organize retrospectives , collect objects relevant to film history, take over estates and organize exhibitions .
Kinematheken in Germany
In Germany , due to the cultural sovereignty of the federal states , cinematheques are usually subject to state politics and their budgets depend on the respective financial policy.
The most important German cinematheques try to coordinate their work twice a year in the coordination council of the cinematheque network and to develop joint projects.
Members of the German Kinemathekenverbund are:
- Federal Archives - Film Archive Department (Berlin)
- Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film and Television (Berlin)
- German Film Institute - DIF with the German Film Museum (Frankfurt am Main)
such as
- CineGraph - Hamburg Center for Film Research
- Filmmuseum Düsseldorf
- Munich Film Museum
- Film Museum Potsdam
- House of Documentary Films (Stuttgart)
permanent guests are:
- DEFA Foundation (Berlin)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
Other important cinematheques in Germany are:
- the Bonn Kinemathek
- the Kinemathek Karlsruhe
- the cinematheque in the Ruhr area
- the Cinémathèque Leipzig
history
In 1935, Henri Langlois and Georges Franju founded a film club "Cercle du cinéma" to show old films , from which in 1936 the Cinémathèque française emerged . The idea that old films should be archived was by no means taken for granted back then. Langlois was able to save many films and materials that the companies simply wanted to throw away.
The British Film Institute was founded in London in 1933. The same thing happened in 1935 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with the establishment of the Film Library . In 1938 Henri Storck , André Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique. In the same year the international association of film archives, the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), was founded.
On October 1, 1955 the State Film Archive (SFA) of the GDR was founded, the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin (West) in 1963, the Austrian Film Museum in 1964. In 1948 the Cinemateca Portuguesa and the Cinemateca Brasileira, the New Zealand Film Archive in 1981 and the African Film Library founded in Ouagadougou ( Burkina Faso ).
See also
Web links
- www.fiafnet.org List of FIFG members