Cineteca Nacional
The Cineteca Nacional is a cinematheque in Mexico City . It was opened on January 17, 1974 and was intended to preserve the films made in Mexico for the future and also to contribute to film research and the dissemination of the films among the population. In March 1982 there was a fire in the Cineteca, in which six people died, and 6,000 rolls of film, other archive material, the library and the two cinemas were destroyed. In 1984 the Cineteca Nacional reopened in new premises. Her holdings were now fireproof, and there were now four cinemas at her disposal. The Cineteca Nacional collection currently includes over 13,000 films from all parts of the world with a focus on Mexico, including feature films , short films and documentaries . In addition, the Cineteca owns 30,000 videos and 330,000 documents such as photographs, film posters and stills. She also owns old projectors and other objects for film screening and production.
history
On January 17, 1974 the Cineteca Nacional opened with the screening of the film El compadre Mendoza from 1934. It was set up in two converted soundstages by Estudio Churubuso . It should collect both national and international films and preserve them for the future. She was also supposed to show the films to viewers in two cinemas . At the opening, the collection consisted of 1,476 films and increased to 2,500 by 1976. In addition to the rooms for showing the films, the Cineteca also had rooms for storing films that met the climatic requirements, a library, rooms for temporary exhibitions and a restaurant. The Cineteca Nacional pursued an intensive publication program with which various aspects of the film were to be examined and scientifically processed. With the Cine movil program , the Cineteca Nacional also sent important films across the country, which were then shown to the public at various venues.
In 1977 the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film accepted the Cineteca Nacional as a full member. From this year the Cineteca Nacional also showed international films in film weeks, film series and small festivals. On the afternoon of March 24, 1982, a fire broke out inside her, killing six people. In addition, 6,000 film rolls and additional archive material were made. the library and the two cinemas destroyed by the fire. Margarita López Portillo , who was responsible for all film affairs in Mexico under the government of her brother José López Portillo , said that she had already warned of this danger for two years and asked for 25 million pesos for the fire-proof renovation of the Cineteca Nacional . However, due to the poor economic situation, these funds were not granted to her. On January 27, 1984, the Cineteca Nacional reopened at its new location. It was a former shopping center with four movie theaters. It provided space for the administration of the Cineteca, the library, the bookstore, the photographic archive, exhibition space for temporary exhibitions and the research department. In 1992, the Cineteca Nacional built new storage rooms for the film rolls, which met the new requirements of the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film. These premises, which were completed in 1994, were financed by the Cineteca from its own resources. After the change of government in 1996, new demonstration rooms were also set up. The Cineteca Nacional supported the nomination of the original version of the film Los olivados of Luis Buñuel , who owned which Filmoteca de la UNAM , a device of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , is the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage , which was adopted after all of 2003. In 2010 the Cineteca Nacional was awarded the Mexican Ariel de Oro Film Prize.
literature
- Carl J. Mora, "Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004." Mcfarland & Co, 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2083-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the holdings on cinetecanacional.net ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Description of the story on cinetecanacional.net ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Carl J. Mora: "Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004" . McFarland & Co, Jefferson NC 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2083-9 , p. 119.
- ^ Carl J. Mora: "Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004" . McFarland & Co, Jefferson NC 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2083-9 , p. 143.
- ^ Carl J. Mora: "Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004" . McFarland & Co, Jefferson NC 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2083-9 , p. 154.