This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice

12 Feb – 19 March 2015

European Archives: collaborative restorations and the case of Menschen am Sonntag

First archives in the 1930s: - National Film Library (British Film Institute) - Cinémathèque Française - Reichsfilmarchiv (dissolved after WWII) - Film library at the MoMA (NYC)

International Federation of Film Archives – FIAF (1938).

Founding principles: - preservation of film as public service; - non-profit activities; - film as document and as art; - international network for exchange of collections and collaborative projects, e.g. restorations. Today FIAF counts 150 archives in 77 countries.

Martin Koerber Head Curator Head Curator at the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Programmer of the Berlinale Retrospective (1996-2003). Responsible for a large number of restorations including Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), Pandora’s Box (G.W. Pabst, 1929), M (Fritz Lang, 1931), and Menschen am Sonntag (Robert and Kurt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann, Edgar Ulmer, Billy Wilder, 1930).

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