Cinematheque

Main facade of the head office, Bulgarian National Film Archive (Българска Национална Филмотека)

A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue.^[1]^[2] 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".^[3] The "Archives of the Planet” (Les Archives de la planète) were established by Albert Kahn, between 1912 and 1931.^[4] 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.^[5]

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 Cinémathèque française in Paris created in 1936.^[6]^[7]^[8] In 1938, the International Federation of Film Archives was created, bringing together institutions devoted to cinematographic heritage.^[7] 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.^[9] In 1991, the Association of European Cinematheques (ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) was established.^[10]

Africa

Morocco

Tangier Cinematheque at Cinema Rif in Tangier

America

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

Other countries in America

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

Asia

Entrance to the new Tel Aviv Cinematheque

China Film Archive in Beijing

Sinematek Indonesia in Jakarta

Tehran Cinematheque in Tehran
Pardis Gholhak Cinematheque in Tehran

Asian Film Archive in Singapore

Korean Film Archive in Seoul
Cinematheque Busan in Busan

Hanoi Cinematheque in Hanoi

Australia

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

Europe

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

Armenian National Cinematheque in Yerevan

CINEMATEK in Brussels^[11]

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 Bretagne in Brest
Cinémathèque de Toulouse [fr]

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

Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg in Luxembourg City^[12]

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

Cinemateket in Stockholm

Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre in Kyiv

British Film Institute in London

Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne

References

^ "cinematheque". Collins English French Electronic Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers. 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-07-18. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ "cinémathèque". Wiktionnaire. Archived from the original on 2010-10-31. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ Matuszewski, Boleslaw (1898). Une nouvelle source de l'histoire (eng. A New Source of History). Paris. p. 6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Les collection du Musée Albert-Kahn". Le Musée départemental Albert-Kahn. Archived from the original on 2016-06-15. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ "Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen - Les origines (Eng. Cinematheque Robert-Lynen - The origines)". Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen. Archived from the original on 2017-09-13. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ "History of the archive". Swedish Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2015-10-29. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ a b Christophe, Dupin (April 2013). "The Origins of FIAF, 1936-1938". FIAF. Archived from the original on 2015-12-05. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ "Les Collections". Cinémathèque française. Archived from the original on 2015-08-30. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ "Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 2004-06-28. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ "History of ACE". Associations des Cinémathèques Europénnes. Archived from the original on 2018-08-19. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ "Cinémathèque royale de Belgique official site". Cinémathèque royale de Belgique. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
^ "Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg". Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg. Retrieved 8 October 2014.

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
Swedish Cinematheque - Official Website
Slovenian Cinematheque - Official Website

[1] "cinematheque". Collins English French Electronic Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers. 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-07-18. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[2] "cinémathèque". Wiktionnaire. Archived from the original on 2010-10-31. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[3] Matuszewski, Boleslaw (1898). Une nouvelle source de l'histoire (eng. A New Source of History). Paris. p. 6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[4] "Les collection du Musée Albert-Kahn". Le Musée départemental Albert-Kahn. Archived from the original on 2016-06-15. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[5] "Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen - Les origines (Eng. Cinematheque Robert-Lynen - The origines)". Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen. Archived from the original on 2017-09-13. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[6] "History of the archive". Swedish Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2015-10-29. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[:0-7] Christophe, Dupin (April 2013). "The Origins of FIAF, 1936-1938". FIAF. Archived from the original on 2015-12-05. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[8] "Les Collections". Cinémathèque française. Archived from the original on 2015-08-30. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[9] "Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 2004-06-28. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[10] "History of ACE". Associations des Cinémathèques Europénnes. Archived from the original on 2018-08-19. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[11] "Cinémathèque royale de Belgique official site". Cinémathèque royale de Belgique. Retrieved 10 April 2010.

[12] "Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg". Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg. Retrieved 8 October 2014.