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2025 FIAF Montreal Symposium

Film Archives Beget Films

Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal, 28-29 April 2025

We are pleased to present the recorded sessions from the 2025 FIAF Congress Symposium titled "Film Archives Beget Films". This Symposium explored various approaches to “artistic archival films”: focusing on the social context, on a range of geopolitical issues, but also on the materiality of images, degradation of the medium, multiplicity of formats as markers of their time, and more. What role can both film and non-film archives play in a creative context? How are these positioned at the confluence of conservation, film restitution/exhumation, and support for creative work?

During the seven sessions of this Symposium, speakers from institutions around the world - including Taiwan, Lebanon, Slovenia, Mexico, Brazil, Burkina Faso, the United States, and more - presented on the practice of re-use of archival material to create films, within a variety of specific disciplinary and regional contexts.

The scientific committee was composed of Guillaume Lafleur (Director of Diffusion, Programming and Publications, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal), André Habib (Professor, Université de Montréal), Caroline Fournier (Head of Heritage, Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne), Robert Daudelin (author and critic, FIAF Honorary Member), Drika de Oliveira (Head of Film Collections, Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro), Nicolas Dulac (Head of Access, Valorization and Development, Cinémathèque québécoise), and Chantal Partamian (Film and Audiovisual Processing Manager, Cinémathèque québécoise).

Click on each of the images below to access the programme and video recording of the corresponding Symposium session. Please forgive us for the not always perfect quality of the sound and image. Please note also that the presentations were delivered in one of the three official FIAF languages and that these video-recordings do not include subtitles or audio-translation.

Opening Panel

Dissemination, Conservation and Creation

Session 1

Re-readings, Re-uses

Session 2

Restore, Transform

Session 3

Interventions, Revelations

Session 4

Historical Memory of Film Practitioners

Session 5

Show, Resume

Session 6

Making it Visible

Session 7

Promoting Film Archives

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