A workshop on methodologies for working with non-filmic sources in researching non-extant, unfinished, and unmade film with Philip Widmann (Berlin/Zürich). Starting from an ongoing research project which attempts to reconstruct the contexts of a specific film’s production, circulation, and loss, we will look at how documents from various public and private sources can help to claim and reclaim film as an idea. In the absence of film as a material art object, its persistence as an idea – in multiple versions and other types of media – documents the role of film as a cultural object which is mutable and related to various contexts, exceeding ’the cinema’.

26 December 2024, 3 pm
Wekalet Behna, 1, Al Kanesa Al Maronya,
Al Mansheyah Al Kubra, 21111 Mansheya, Alexandria