2022 Budapest Symposium

Opening Remarks and Session 1 : “Segments of the Soul” – PANEL I

Budapest, 25 April 2022

The panel discussion focused on home movies. A group of archivists from around the U.S. and Europe are at work on drafting a Home Movie Handbook, a practical guide for archivists that covers key topics and case studies related to the accession, cataloging, and presentation of home movies. Using the outline of the handbook as a guide, our panelists, including archivists and filmmakers, representing both FIAF and non-FIAF archives, based both in Europe and in the United States, discussed issues of accession, cataloging, copyright, and access to home movies. Additionally, archivist and filmmaker Péter Forgács, a Budapest native, shared his thoughts on the role home movies play in his artistic practice, and his experiences bridging the worlds of archives and filmmaking.

Moderator: Haden Guest, Curator (Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA)

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Opening Remarks

György Ráduly, Head of the Film Archive Department (National Film Insitute, Budapest, Hungary)

Frédéric Maire, Director (Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne, Switzerland) and FIAF President

The Home Movie Handbook : A Work in Progress

Brian Meacham, Managing Archivist (Yale Film Archive, New Haven, U.S.A.)

MoMA’s “Private Lives Public Spaces” show, curation, rights issues

Katie Trainor, Film Collections Manager (Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.)

Homemovies, Donors and Agreements

Kay Foubister, Acquisitions Curator (National Library of Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland)

[Due to Copyright issues, this presentation is not available.]

Practice as archivist and artist

Karianne Fiorini, Independent archivist and consultant (Bologna, Italy)

Péter Forgács, Filmmaker (Budapest, Hungary)