Due to the uncertain context of the Corona pandemic, the Digital Archive Summer School has been postponed until next year. Selected participants will be kept updated. The new date is 6-10 September 2021.
The new deadline for applications is 15 July 2021 (Early Bird 31 March 2021).
For more information, visit the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF’s website.
La Cinémathèque royale de Belgique reopens its doors on July 1st. Security measures have been implemented to ensure the safety of everyone during the screenings. The seating capacity has been limited and it is strongly encouraged to purchase the tickets in advance. To read all the safety measures, click here.
The program for its reopening features a series of interesting film exhibitions:
Yesterday, June 25th, saw the first virtual ACE General Assembly, taking place between 2 and 4 PM. The GA was an opportunity to elect the new executive committee and discuss new ACE projects.
Orphans & Eye
The Orphan Film Symposium is a renowned bi-annual gathering that has been celebrating abandoned and forgotten films since 1999. Since its first edition, the Filmmuseum has contributed to Orphans. Eye and New York University planned for nearly two years to have the symposium convene again in conjunction with the Eye International Conference.
After a successful first European edition in Eye in 2014, with over 200 international guests from thirty countries, Eye was looking forward to welcoming again this wonderful community of international cinephiles.
The ACE General Assembly (GA) will take place virtually on Wednesday June 24th. In order to reach quorum it is important that all members designate the
The Filmoteca de Catalanuya is slowly reopening. At first on June 9th the Biblioteca del cinema started offering a loan service by appointment (Tuesday-Friday from 10 AM to 2 PM) and the David Lynch exhibition Dreams: Tribute to Fellini has been reopened and extended until August 30 (Tuesday to Friday, from 10 AM to 2 PM and from 4 PM to 9 PM; Saturdays and Sundays, from 4 PM to 9 PM).
The screenings will resume on the 26th of June in the two rooms of the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Chomón and Laya. The activity will be adapted to the new measures of restricted access and hygiene that have been implemented. During the months of July and August, there will be three daily screening, from Tuesday to Sunday, at 4.30 PM (Chomón), 7PM (Laya) and 8PM (Chomón), with reduced capaacity to facilitate distancing, numbered seats, priority for online sales and reinforcement of the cleaning and disinfection of the spaces between screenings.
From June 1rst to August 30th Eye Filmmuseum is proud to present a major solo exhibition of work by Chantal Akerman. In 1995, the Belgian filmmaker created a large spatial installation on 24 monitors based on D’Est, a film she originally made as a documentary. This was only the start of her second career in the world of visual art.
The exhibition hosted by EYE Filmmuseum features eight of Akerman’s film installations. They include among others the previously mentioned D’Est, Woman Sitting after a Killing (2001), Tombée de nuit sur Shangai (2007-2008) and her final work NOW (2015).
Thanks to the effort and the support from Comune di Bologna, three dreams are slowly becoming reality.
The new construction site in the area of the ex-parking lot Giuriolo will bring to life a new complex dedicated to film heritage and to the city of Bologna’s cultural heritage, something unprecedented in the world, thanks to the transformation of the spaces in the new headquarter. The new complex will host the film archive of Cineteca di Bologna (with more than eighty thousand titles and collections of immeasurable value) and the restoration laboratory L’immagine Ritrovata, considered to be a global reference point. There will new spaces open to the public and an area for open-air screenings. This renovation fits into a project of redevelopment of the Bologna’s outskirts promoted by Piano Periferie per la città di Bologna.
Thanks to the institutional support from Comune di Bologna and Regione Emilia-Romagna Sotto le stelle del Cinema and Il Cinema Ritrovato will be able to return this year.
For the open-air screenings in Piazza Maggiore, Cineteca di Bologna is working on different hypothesis to make sure the screenings are hosted in the safest environment, suggesting a maximum number of one thousand spectators per screening. The program will be similar in length to the past years with more than 50 evenings, from July 4th to September 1st.
The XXXIV edition of Cinema Ritrovato will take place from the 25th to the 31st of August as an ideal peak of Sotto le Stelle del Cinema. The team of festival curators (Gian Luca Farinelli, Cecilia Cenciarelli, Mariann Lewinsky, Ehsan Khoshbakht) and the international scientific committee have been working for months to ensure a special and partly redesigned Cinema Ritrovato edition.
The current health crisis has led the organizers of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival/Giornate del Cinema Muto to shift the 2020 programme selected by director Jay Weissberg to 2021. For 2020 to organize 8 days of thematic screenings and events, between the 3rd and the 10th of October, the world’s leading film archives have been chosen as the Festival’s co-producers, offering them the opportunity to present some of their treasures online to the Giornate’s audience during the established dates.
With the aim of making the archives the actual protagonists, the Festival is working with a number of major international film archives including the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., Lobster Films in Paris, Det Danske Filminstitut in Copenhagen, the China Film Archive in Beijing, EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Film Archive of Japan in Tokyo, together with the Cineteca del Friuli, co-founder with Cinemazero of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
Cineteca di Bologna is happy to take part in the #IorestoinSALA initiative that wants the quality movie theater experience available on the internet. To launch the circuit that includes more than 70 cinemas from all over Italy with the collaboration of a great number of distributors and of mymovies.it, there will be one of the best movies of the year, recipient of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 70th Berlinale.
