Class Audiovisual Curator and Museology

What is it to be a curator of an audiovisual collection today? The experiential factor is fundamental to properly consider the challenges faced by audiovisual curatorship in contemporary times.

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The complex sociocultural context within which the concept of “film culture” emerged will be addressed. Events, partnerships, and projection cycles, essential for the exercise of audiovisual curatorship, will also be analysed. For example, the 1978 FIAF Congress in Brighton, whose exchange of archive materials allowed a profound rewriting of the history of cinema, will be highlighted. The role of the curator in the arts has evolved over the previous century, acquiring an “authorship” potential and expressive power which should be critically considered through conceptual, aesthetic, and political issues. In this sense, case studies such as Il Cinema Ritrovato, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, among other relevant events, will be examined. Digitalisation and the availability of online content has changed the power balance and the exhibition methods of archive materials, while allowing the approach of new audiences and scholars.

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