Opening the gates: an archival perspective

Autores/as

  • Nico de Klerk Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 1010 Vienna, Austria.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v3n2.233

Palabras clave:

film heritage institutes, public programming, visitor information, public funding

Resumen

In the following article I argue that the public presentations of film heritage institutes largely focus on feature-length, predominantly fiction films. This statement is based on a survey I did within the framework of my PhD research of public programming information on the websites of 24 film heritage institutes, in February 2014. The results of this survey clearly show that these institutes’ public, curatorial activities fall short of their missions and negatively affect the sense of film history they convey to their audiences. In the case of publicly-funded institutes this is all the more serious, as they are mandated to be publicly accountable for their missions and activities. I conclude with recommendations for curatorial activities: to rethink the institutes’ gatekeeper function and to develop more more varied, imaginative, and informative public presentations that reflect the range of their collections and the histories these collections imply.

 

Biografía del autor/a

Nico de Klerk, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 1010 Vienna, Austria.

Nico de Klerk is a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft,in Vienna. He currently works on the project 'Exploring the interwar world: the travelogues ofColin Ross (1885-1945)'. Before that, he worked at the Nederlands Filmmuseum, in Amsterdam,as film researcher, archivist, and curator. He has published widely, as editor and/or author, onsuch topics as (early) nonfiction film, colonial cinema, amateur film, or the program format, buthas also written film critical essays. Shortly, his co-edited volume Films that sell: moving imageadvertising will be published by BFI-Palgrave. He is on the editorial board of The Moving Imageand Early Cinema in Review. He recently completed his PhD at Utrecht University, the Netherlands,on film heritage institutes and their performance of public accountability.

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Publicado

2016-07-18

Número

Vol. 3 Núm. 2 (2016): Outros filmes

Sección

Dossier temático