Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
meson press
2023-12-22

In the digital media ecology, archives are changing. Artists, curators, critics and scholars assume the role of accidental archivists. They shape cinema’s futures by salvaging precarious repositories and making them matter in new ways. In the process, the cinema’s public, a democratic body seemingly scattered about platforms and niches in a post-pandemic world, re-emerges as a political force.

Accidental Archivism brings together programmatic statements and proposals to explore an artistic space between archiving and activism, a space where remnants of the past become the building blocks of new ways of making, showing, teaching and thinking cinema.

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  • Political activism
  • P87-96
  • digitality
  • media ecology
  • pandemic
  • repositories
  • Library, archive and information management
  • Film history, theory or criticism
  • Archiving, preservation and digitization
  • Media studies
  • Film history, theory or criticism
  • Media studies
  • activism
  • archivism
  • cinema

Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

meson press

2023-12-22

CC BY-SA

In the digital media ecology, archives are changing. Artists, curators, critics and scholars assume the role of accidental archivists. They shape cinema’s futures by salvaging precarious repositories and making them matter in new ways. In the process, the cinema’s public, a democratic body seemingly scattered about platforms and niches in a post-pandemic world, re-emerges as a political force.

Accidental Archivism brings together programmatic statements and proposals to explore an artistic space between archiving and activism, a space where remnants of the past become the building blocks of new ways of making, showing, teaching and thinking cinema.

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Topics

  • Political activism
  • P87-96
  • digitality
  • media ecology
  • pandemic
  • repositories
  • Library, archive and information management
  • Film history, theory or criticism
  • Archiving, preservation and digitization
  • Media studies
  • Film history, theory or criticism
  • Media studies
  • activism
  • archivism
  • cinema