Behind-the-(museum)scenes

Keidl, Philipp Dominik

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“…A point of no return, we presume. From one day to the next, we were locked down and our lives were 'converted' online (Keidl et al 2020). Italy was at the epicenter of this pandemic.…”

Section: From Local To Global: the Pandemic Turnmentioning

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Local/global: amateur cinema and new forms of valorization in archival film festivals

Cavallotti

Simoni²

2022

Studies in European Cinema

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This paper will focus on the new landscapes of valorization and access to amateur/small gauge films within the archival film festival context. Archival small gauge film festivals present themselves as something completely different from those festivals dedicated to amateur and experimental cinema in the past, mainly because their goal is to valorize assets that have been deposited in specialized archives from the 1980s onwards. This film heritage is composed not only by the products of serious amateurs, but also by home movies and experimental films. We will start from the cases of Home Movie Day, a project developed in 2002 by archivists, curators and film historians in the US, Archivio Aperto in Italy, and Orphan Film Symposium, founded in 1999. Throughout the years they have become a blueprint for archival small gauge film festivals and a label to which different experiences refer: small archival film festivals; meeting activities where the broader field of 'non-theatrical film' is addressed; the Home Movie Marathon, a live streaming in which amateur films from all across the world are screened, etc. Furthermore, we will focus on examples from the European context, such as Archivio Aperto and its recent developments with the Memoryscapes digital platform.

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“…A point of no return, we presume. From one day to the next, we were locked down and our lives were 'converted' online (Keidl et al 2020). Italy was at the epicenter of this pandemic.…”

Section: From Local To Global: the Pandemic Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local/global: amateur cinema and new forms of valorization in archival film festivals

Cavallotti

Simoni²

2022

Studies in European Cinema

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The Labor of Curating: Fandom, Museums, and the Value of Fan Heritage

Keidl¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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N DECEMBER 2019, GERMAN NEWS CHANNEL N-TV BROADCASTED A special program on the world premiere of J. J. Abrams's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Among the interviewees featured in the report was Thomas Manglitz, co-founder of the fan-run museum 1 Stars of the Galaxy in M€ onchengladbach, Germany (hereafter SOTG). Housed in a former indoor swimming pool vacated by the city, SOTG displays production materials and merchandise from a variety of science fiction productions. However, the vast majority of the amateur museum's displays are dedicated to the Star Wars franchise, ranging from action figures to LEGO sets, replicas, and collectible figurines. Because of this focus, SOTG has become a popular destination for local and regional press, as well as fellow fans, to interview Manglitz about Star Wars, including the history of the films, the success of the franchise's merchandise, its fan community, and the story behind the museum itself. Although Manglitz himself frames the project as a hobby without any economic agenda in such reports, the curatorial work of the fans behind SOTG should not be considered as mere leisure. Rather, following Mel Stanfill's plea to study fan practices and projects through a labor framework and "ask who benefits from these activities" (131), fan curating should be acknowledged as a form of work that creates cultural and economic value for different agents.

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Behind-the-(museum)scenes

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Local/global: amateur cinema and new forms of valorization in archival film festivals

Local/global: amateur cinema and new forms of valorization in archival film festivals

The Labor of Curating: Fandom, Museums, and the Value of Fan Heritage

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