Cinematheque

A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically, a cinematheque has at least one motion picture theatre, which offers screenings of its collections and other international films.

History

From the first cinema screenings until 1930, several attempts to establish film archives were initiated in Europe, the US and Russia. As early as 1898, the photographer and cameraman Bolesław Matuszewski evoked the idea of a film archive. "It is a matter of giving this perhaps privileged source of history the same authority, the same official existence, the same access as to other archives already known". The "Archives of the Planet” (Les Archives de la planète) were established by French banker Albert Kahn, between 1912 and 1931. Military film archives were also created in France, Germany and Great Britain after the First World War. The cinematheque of the city of Paris, for educational purposes, was created in 1925.

However, it was not until the 1930s and the awareness of the destruction of films at the time of the transition to sound movies that the first film archives emerged. Some of the first formal film archives were created: in Stockholm in 1933, the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin in 1934, the National Film Library in London and the Film Library at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1935, the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library of Australia in 1935, the Cinémathèque française in Paris created in 1936. In 1938, the International Federation of Film Archives was created, bringing together institutions devoted to cinematographic heritage. On 27 October 1980, the General Conference of UNESCO adopted the "Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images" which recognizes the need to preserve and provide access to cinematographic heritage. In 1991, the Association of European Cinematheques (ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) was established.

Africa

Morocco

Tangier Cinematheque at Cinema Rif in Tangier

Americas

Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal
The Cinematheque in Vancouver
TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto
Cinematheque Waterloo in Waterloo
Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque in Winnipeg

UCLA Film and Television Archive in Los Angeles
American Cinematheque in Los Angeles
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
San Francisco Cinematheque in San Francisco
Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago
Cleveland Cinematheque in Cleveland
University of Virginia Cinematheque in Charlottesville
Cinematheque at University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City
Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City

Venezuela

Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela in Caracas
Cine Archivo Bolívar Films in Caracas
Archivo Departamento de Cine de la Universidad de los Andes, Mérida

Other countries

Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá in Bogotá, Colombia
Cinemateca Uruguaya in Montevideo, Uruguay
Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo, Brazil
Filmoteca PUCP in Lima, Perú

Asia

China Film Archive in Beijing

Sinematek Indonesia in Jakarta

Tehran Cinematheque in Tehran
Pardis Gholhak Cinematheque in Tehran

Jerusalem Cinematheque in Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Cinematheque in Tel Aviv
Haifa Cinematheque in Haifa
Herzliya Cinematheque in Herzliya
Holon Cinematheque in Holon
Sderot Cinematheque in Sderot
Rosh Pina Cinematheque in Rosh Pinna

Asian Film Archive in Singapore

Korean Film Archive in Seoul
Cinematheque Busan in Busan

Hanoi Cinematheque in Hanoi

Europe

ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes, an affiliation of 49 national and regional European cinematheques.

Armenian National Cinematheque in Yerevan

CINEMATEK in Brussels

Bulgarian National Film Archive (Българска Национална Филмотека) in Sofia

Národní filmový archiv in Prague (and its Ponrepo cinema)

Cinemateket in Copenhagen

Cinémathèque Française in Paris
Cinémathèque de Nice in Nice
Cinémathèque de Bretagne in Brest
Cinémathèque de Toulouse
Cinematheque de Saint-Etienne in Saint-Etiennne
Cinémathèque d'images de montagne (Cinematheque of mountain images) in Gap in the French Alps
Cinémathèque de Grenoble in Grenoble
Cinémathèque Jean Marie Boursicot in Marseille, dedicated exclusively to the conservation of advertising film, enriched every year, by an additional 25 000 films sent by 750 advertising agency correspondents in 80 countries.
Cinémathèque Méliès in Paris, collects, preserves and promotes the work of Georges Méliès
Cinémathèque de Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Limoges
Cinémathèque Hauts-de-France
Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen founded in 1926 in Paris. One of the things that sets it apart from other cinematheques is that it is used for educational purposes by schools (from nursery to high school).
Département Son, vidéo, multimedia de la Bibliothèque nationale de France in the National Library of France, founded in 1461 in Paris
Cinémathèque du documentaire in Paris, responsible for supporting and promoting the production and distribution of works in the documentary genre.
Cinémathèque régionale de Bourgogne Jean-Douchet in Dijon, Burgundy
National Audiovisual Institute is the repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives. It has allowed free online consultation on a website called ina.fr with a search tool indexing 100,000 archives of historical programs, for a total of 20,000 hours.
Archives françaises du film is part of the National Centre for Cinema are both located in the Fort de Bois-d'Arcy, southwest of Paris.
GP Archives (GP for Gaumont Pathé)

Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin,
DFF Deutsches Filmnstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt
Filmmuseum Potsdam Institut der Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam
Film Museum München in Munich
Filmmuseum der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf

Cineteca Nazionale in Rome
Cineteca Italiana in Milan
Cineteca di Bologna in Bologna

Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg in Luxembourg City

Cinemateket in Oslo
Cinemateket in Trondheim

Iluzjon - Film Art Museum in Warsaw

Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon

Arhiva Nationala de Filme - Cinemateca in Bucharest

Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade

Slovenska kinoteka in Ljubljana

Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona
Filmoteca Española in Madrid
Filmoteca de Galica in A Coruña
Instituto Valenciano de Cinematografía in Valencia

Cinemateket in Stockholm

Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre in Kyiv

British Film Institute in London

Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne

Oceania

Australia

Arc Cinema at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in Canberra, ACT
Australian Cinémathèque in the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland
Melbourne Cinematheque in Melbourne, Victoria
Adelaide Cinémathèque in the Mercury Cinema, Adelaide, South Australia

References

External links

International Federation of Film Archives - Official Website
ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes - Official Website
The Cinematheque - Official Website
Cinematheque Ontario Archived 2010-03-12 at the Wayback Machine - Official Website
Cinematheque Waterloo - Official Website
Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque - Official Website
Korean Film Archive - Official Website
Australian Cinémathèque Archived 2011-11-02 at the Wayback Machine - Official Website
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – official website
Swedish Cinematheque - Official Website
Slovenian Cinematheque - Official Website

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