Archive Kabinett
and The Loose Bookshop
December 10th, 2009
and The Loose Bookshop
December 10th, 2009
Archive Kabinett will open its rooms with a selection of publications and films
all revolving around the idea of archives as storytellers, and the presentation
of Home for lost Ideas, a book project by Dan Rees and Catherine Griffiths,
published by Archive Books.
Because he has a short memory Man accumulates countless aide-mémoires. Confronted with these bulging repositories, Man is assailed by a fear of
being engulfed by this mass of words. To assure his liberty, he builds
fortresses. In Paris words are imprisoned in the Bibliothéque Nationale. From Toute la mémoire du monde by Alain Resnais
In 1956 the director Alain Resnais made The National Library of France the
subject of his short film; 'Toute la mémoire du monde', using one of the largest and oldest libraries in the world
as his set to tell a story about books and their journey towards history. Ten years later – in 1966 – François Truffaut burns thousand of books in his film Fahrenheit 451, which he adapted for the screen from Ray Bradbury's famous novel by the same name. In 1996 filmmaker Jem Cohen presents the epic of a Lost Book Found, a journal made from fragments revealing broken stories of New York, this film connects the fractioned elements through the recovery of traces from the abandoned, disposed and the forgotten.
as his set to tell a story about books and their journey towards history. Ten years later – in 1966 – François Truffaut burns thousand of books in his film Fahrenheit 451, which he adapted for the screen from Ray Bradbury's famous novel by the same name. In 1996 filmmaker Jem Cohen presents the epic of a Lost Book Found, a journal made from fragments revealing broken stories of New York, this film connects the fractioned elements through the recovery of traces from the abandoned, disposed and the forgotten.
On December 10th Archive Kabinett will open its doors to three different
settings displaying a selection of publications relating to the three films
mentioned above. A fourth room is transformed into a makeshift cinema, with a
screening program also focusing on the meaning as well as the physicality of
publications.
Download pamphlet-2.pdf
Download pamphlet-2.pdf
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