I N T R O D U C T I O N
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Vinzenz Hediger
P R O L O G U E
An Incomplete Series of Archive Incidents. Or: Trust the Archive
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
Digital Scavengers and the Limits of the Archive: Excavating Lagos on the Internet
Vinzenz Hediger
I N E V E R W A N T E D T O B E A N A R C H I V I S T: A C C I D E N T A L
A R C H I V I S M A N D B I O G R A P H I C A L T U R N I N G P O I N T S
Accidental Archivism – A Necessary Accident
Didi Cheeka
Accidental Encounters, Incidental Care, and Shared Archival Practices
Sonia Campanini
Situatedness: Accidental Archaeology of When and What
Ala Younis
Seeing Again Nuit et brouillard – Nacht und Nebel – Night and Fog
Tobias Hering
Against Forgetfulness, Against Monumentalization: Round and Around (2020)
Hieyoon Kim
N E W A R C H I V A L S P A C E S A N D P L A C E S O F C I N E M A
Can Sungu
“Can’t you see them? – Film them.”
Asja Makarević and Clarissa Thieme
Action-based Archivism: A Conversation with Mareike Bernien, Madhusree Dutta and Merle Kroeger
Alexandra Schneider
Navigating/Activating: Working with Harun Farocki’s Artistic Estate
Volker Pantenburg
Pirated Lubunca Films: Lambdaistanbul’s Counter-archival Practices
Sema Çakmak
Forgetting the Cinema of Transgression by Looking for Its Traces
Marie-Sophie Beckmann
On Transnationality & Archive Practice: A Chronicle of the Rafla Collection
Tamer El Said
N E W C I N E P H I L I A S: B E Y O N D T H E
M A N S P R E A D I N G M A C H I N E
Afterword, Three Years Later: For a New Cinephilia
Girish Shambu
Kinothek Asta Nielsen: Fugitive Archives
Gaby Babić, Karola Gramann and Heide Schlüpmann
Erika Balsom
My Little Lady Digs: Vaginal Davis on “Rising Stars, Falling Stars”
Marc Siegel and Vaginal Davis
We Have Always Been Fabulous: Fragments of an Unfinished Manifesto
Mohammad Shawky Hassan
On Decay: Reflections on Working with Neglected Films
Lisabona Rahman and Julita Pratiwi
I N T E R L U D E
Ulrich Gregor – The Arsenal in Berlin
C I N É K I N S H I P S: C R E A T I N G N E W
N E T W O R K S O F F I L M C U L T U R E
The Eloquence of Odradek: Hussein Shariffe’s Exilic Film Objects
Erica Carter
Cinema-ye Azad: The Lost History of the Iranian Independent Cinema Collective
Hadi Alipanah
Collaborative Dialogues and Calcutta’s Super 8 Film Movement
Amrita Biswas
The Pyramid Used to be a Mountain
Almudena Escobar López
Destabilizing the Official Film Archive from Within: S.N.S. Sastry’s And I Make Short Films
Ritika Kaushik
Shai Heredia
T H E V A S T D O M A I N O F U N S E E N F I L M S:
M A P P I N G T H E C I N E M A W E N E V E R K N E W
An Archive of the Future – An Archive for the Past
Constanze Ruhm
Veena Hariharan
Found or Lost? Turkey’s Vulnerable Film and Video Heritage
Özge Çelikaslan
Pleasure in/of the Archive: Porn Workshops at the Schwules Museum
Nils Meyn
Simone Venturini
Mila Turajlić
L O S T P L A T F O R M S: A C C I D E N T A L A R C H I V I S M
A N D T H E O V E R P R O M I S E O F T E C H N O L O G Y
Philipp Dominik Keidl
Unexpected, Contingent, Accidental: Cinema in the Contemporary Digital Archive
Ravi Vasudevan
Don Quixote in the Archive: Or, Making Sense of Film Heritage in the Age of Overabundance
Francesco Pitassio
BABYLON‘13
T R A J E C T O R I E S O F R E S T I T U T I O N
Ejo Lobi: Reimagining a Future Past
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
An Accidental Virtual Archive of Colonialism
Grazia Ingravalle
African Film Heritage: The Case for Restitution
Nikolaus Perneczky
Accessing the Nigerian Film Archive: Tensions and Questions
Añulika Agina and Didi Cheeka
Remnants of the Central Film Library and the Rethinking of Ghana’s Audio-visual Heritage
Rebecca Ohene-Asah
Phenomena of Ukrainian cinema: Director’s Cut by Ukrainian Film Archive
Olena Goncharuk and Mariia Glazunova
Fragments of our Memories: On the Incompleteness of Broken Nostalgia
Lynhan Balabat-Helbock and Laura Kloeckner
E P I L O G U E
Cine-animism: The Return of Amílcar Cabral and Many Returns
Filipa César