How to Benefit from Academics? A Roundtable with Film Archives

Abstract

This dialogue is the result of a roundtable conducted via Zoom about the relation between the research project ViCTOR-E (Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-WWII Europe), here represented by Rossella Catanese (University of Udine), Lucie Cesálková (Academy of Sciences in Prague), and Paolo Villa (University of Udine), and the partner "lm archives, represented by Marion Boulestreau (Ciné-Archives, France), Matej Strnad (Národní Filmový Archiv Prague, Czech Republic), Elena Testa (Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa, Italy), Julia Welter (Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum) with the purpose of deepening the issues about academic research and cinematheques. As the ViCTOR-E project focused primarily on non-fiction cinema as an agent of post-war reconstruction of the public space, the discussion deals primarily with this type of archive collections and the status and possibilities of their valorisation.