Films You Cannot See Elsewhere
The Amos Vogel Atlas 19
A Visit from the Prague Videoarchiv
January 29, 2025
To mark the occasion of the new publication A Cartography of Moving Images, we will be visited by the book's editors, who will present a selection of short films from the collection of the Videoarchiv at the Národni filmový archiv in Prague.
Documentation, archiving, and access to audiovisual works outside the context of a cinema require long-term, sustainable strategies. This is primarily a matter of digitization and digital preservation of works that were originally made using a broad spectrum of analog, digital, professional, and amateur formats which are now a technical challenge to reproduce.
The goal of the publication is the critical evaluation of moving image practices in the Czech art world from the 1970s to the present and it delivers an analysis of every relevant position in the debate over autonomy. Contributions by authors with backgrounds in art history and film scholarship as well as the perspectives of archivists and curators are combined into a coherent volume which completes a picture of the history of moving image practices that has been fragmentary until now. (Sylva Poláková, Martin Mazanec / Translation: Ted Fendt)
To mark the occasion of the new publication A Cartography of Moving Images, we will be visited by the book's editors, who will present a selection of short films from the collection of the Videoarchiv at the Národni filmový archiv in Prague.
Documentation, archiving, and access to audiovisual works outside the context of a cinema require long-term, sustainable strategies. This is primarily a matter of digitization and digital preservation of works that were originally made using a broad spectrum of analog, digital, professional, and amateur formats which are now a technical challenge to reproduce.
The goal of the publication is the critical evaluation of moving image practices in the Czech art world from the 1970s to the present and it delivers an analysis of every relevant position in the debate over autonomy. Contributions by authors with backgrounds in art history and film scholarship as well as the perspectives of archivists and curators are combined into a coherent volume which completes a picture of the history of moving image practices that has been fragmentary until now. (Sylva Poláková, Martin Mazanec / Translation: Ted Fendt)
With Sylva Poláková and Martin Mazanec in attendance
In collaboration with the Czech Center Vienna
Martin Mazanec, Sylva Poláková (ed.), Mapping the Moving Image. Media, Agents, and Sites in the Czech Context, Leipzig: Spector 2024
Related materials
Books Film as a Subversive Art
Link Contributors
Link Amos Vogel Library
Project Amos Vogel – 100 Years of Subversion
Film Series Amos Vogel Atlas
Link Amos Vogel Library
Project Amos Vogel – 100 Years of Subversion
Film Series Amos Vogel Atlas
