Contributing to the cinema death topic while focusing on national film
institutes, Giovanna Fossati and Annie van den Oever observe that, while
it can be said that processes of digitalization (which raise the question as
to whether the notion of film is still relevant in this new technological
context) have deeply affected the world of film and cinema, some of the
film institutes remain – an index of the cinema persistence. Digitalization
concerns reproduction and creation. The exchange of views between
Fossati and Van den Oever provides a useful perspective on the issue of
digital archiving. It also deeply enriches the idea of post-cinema, more
precisely, the idea of “a new post-cinematic ecology.”