My presentation at the Eye International Conference titled "Archival Reflections & Revelations – Excavating the Forgotten Memories of the Women & Film Festival (1973)" will take place on Sunday, June 4, 2023 in Amsterdam, NL.
The Women & Film Festival (Toronto, 1973) is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2023. Texts, audiovisual, and artefacts documenting the festival were gathered in an archive, which contained a never-before-seen recording of Agnès Varda addressing a crowd about her recent film Le Bonheur (1965). In this presentation, Cleo Sallis-Parchet reflects on the experience of digitizing and remediating the archival material to uncover layers of forgotten histories and memories related to the Women & Film Festival. Using Varda as an entry point, this presentation highlights the importance of gathering oral histories and audiovisual records to reveal the crucial role that women’s media activism played in cinema and in feminist histories. Often contained in personal archives, these stories continue to remain at risk of obsolescence and loss. By reimagining the audiovisual archive as a space of presence, potentiality, and network, it can become a framework in which new feminist archives are generated.
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/eye-international-conference-2023/839379
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