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Wikipedia / 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

Americas

  1. Canada

Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal

  • The Cinematheque in Vancouver

  • TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto

  • Cinematheque Waterloo in Waterloo

  • Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque in Winnipeg

    1. United States of America

    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

    1. Mexico

    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 del Caribe in Barranquilla, Colombia

  • Cinemateca Uruguaya in Montevideo, Uruguay

  • Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo, Brazil

  • Filmoteca PUCP in Lima, Perú

    • Asia

    1. China

    China Film Archive in Beijing

    1. Indonesia

    Sinematek Indonesia in Jakarta

    1. Iran

    Tehran Cinematheque in Tehran

  • Pardis Gholhak Cinematheque in Tehran

    1. Israel

    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

    1. Singapore

    Asian Film Archive in Singapore

    1. South Korea

    Korean Film Archive in Seoul

  • Cinematheque Busan in Busan

    1. Vietnam

    Hanoi Cinematheque in Hanoi

    • Europe

    Oceania

    Australia

    See also

    References