Think Film! On Current Practices and Challenges in Film Culture: A Documentation of a Student Symposium

This publication's objective is to serve as the documentation of a graduate student symposium with the same name held in July 2017. The goal of the symposium was to discuss problems in current film culture with a focus on filmic heritage and innovative projects in the field of film education. Think Film! is a compilation of most of the talks given at the symposium. As quite often conferences or workshops are not documented, the goal of the publication is on the one hand to preserve the results for other scholars, as well as to make them accessible for the general public, and on the other hand to give the panelists a designated space to present their research. The authors discuss questions of film heritage and digitization, funding, film festivals, film museums and local film culture with a focus on the conditions in Germany, Czech Republic and India as well as relate their findings to the changes film and media studies have undergone in recent years.
Michelle Rafaela Kamolz et al.: Introductory Remarks Torgil Trumpler: Why Fund Cultural Heritage? A Few Questions on Its Origins, Film Preservation, and the Role of the State Vatsala Sharma: Films from India at Film Festivals: A non-Bollywood Formula? Josephine Diecke: Robert Reinert’s OPIUM - Interrogating a Film Print Jakub Jiriste: NaFilM Film Museum Project: Upgrade for an Informal Film Education Johanna Doyé et al.: Symbiosis or Parasitism? Floating Alongside Bigger Fish: Programmkino Lichtblick e. V. Wilke Bitter: Between Haptics and Interference: The Challenging State of Documentaries