Symposium: Curating The Global Film Archive Event
Description
Complementing the Africa’s Lost Classics programme and the exhibition African Film: Looking Back Through the Lens, we are hosting a symposium entitled Curating the Global Film Archive on Sat 28 Oct at the Moving Image Archive at Kelvin Hall. Inviting scholars, archivists, filmmakers and restorers from around the world to Glasgow for a day of dialogue and discussion on what the archive contributes to film history and the future of film, we hope to place African cinema at the centre of the global film archive, while providing a context of worldwide archival curation and research. We are interested in the archives of the world: from the Balkans to the Far East, Beirut to Seattle, the Cape to Cairo.
Symposium schedule:
9.30am-10am: Registration, coffee/tea /exhibition viewing
10am-10.15am: Welcome
10.15am-11am: KEYNOTE DIALOGUE
June Givanni, Founder: June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive: Witness - June Givanni on a Pan African Cinema Archive
11am-12.30pm: PANEL 1 - The Global Archives
MaryEllen Higgins, Associate Professor of English, Penn State University: The Silt of the Archives
Catarina Simao, Artist and Researcher: So that new cinema may be called “our” cinema: a disjointed memory. Notes on Mueda, Memória e Massacre (1979-80)
Adina Bradeanu, Taylor Institution Library, Oxford: Making sense of an absence, working against it: The afterlife of the ‘Alexandru Sahia’ Documentary Studio in Post-communist Romania
Alexandra-Maria Colta, PhD candidate, University of Glasgow: Bringing the Film Archive to Life: Marlon Riggs Retrospective at Document Human Rights Film Festival
12.30pm-2pm: LUNCH & EXHIBITION VIEWING
2pm-3.15pm: PANEL 2 - South African Archives
Emma Sandon, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television, Birkbeck University of London: Curating the South African film archive: 1910-1960
Benjamin Cowley, CEO: Gravel Road Distribution Group: Retro Afrika Bioscope and the restoration of Cult Classics
Firdoze Bulbulia, Director: Moments Entertainment: Mandela’s Africa: A TV series based on the exclusive African diary of Nelson Mandela in 1962
3.15pm-3.45pm: TEA/COFFEE & EXHIBITION VIEWING
3.45pm-5.15pm: Screening and Discussion
The Faces We Lost + Q&A with director Piotr Cieplak, Filmmaker, Lecturer in Filmmaking, University of Sussex
5.15pm-5.30pm: CLOSE
The keynote address will be given by June Givanni, pioneering film curator, archivist and consultant in African and African diaspora cinema: www.junegivannifilmarchive.com
Download the full symposium programme, including speakers' bios and abstracts, here: Curating-the-Global-Archive-Symposium-Programme3.docx
Entry the symposium is free, so everyone is welcome to join in the conversation. This event is part of AiM’s focus on Africa’s Lost Classics, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Thanks to Kelvin Hall, Moving Image Archive and the University of Glasgow, for their support in the organisation of this event.
Showings
Glasgow /
Sat 28 Oct
/ 9.30am-5.30pm
Free and ticketed /
Kelvin Hall / Book Now