Entrance = free; RSVP: exposingthefilmapparatus2024@gmail.com 

You can also attend the book launch online:

https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/68729773759

Program

3:30 PM – Welcome by Maral Mohsenin, Director of Collection & Knowledge Sharing, Eye Filmmusem

3:45 PM – Introduction by Annie van den Oever and Giovanna Fossati 

4:00 PM – Short presentations by 2025 authors:

• • Christian Gosvig Olesen
  • Carolina Cappa and Isabel Wschebor
  • Andrew Tucker
  • Landi Raubenheimer and Bongani J. Khoza

4:40 PM – the first copy of the 2025 book will be presented to William Uricchio

5:00 PM – Drinks

The event is hosted by the interinstitutional Research Group 'Moving Images: Preservation, Curation, Exhibition’ (UU/ICON, UvA/ASCA, Eye Filmmuseum).

About the book

Exposing the Film Apparatus: Global Laboratory Perspectives

"This book addresses the growing awareness of the historical collections of film and media devices in film archives and media museums. Over thirty experts reflect on the prominent roles media technologies play in a range of social, cultural, curatorial, and educational practices as well as in storage, presentation, and research strategies, looking beyond the more customary range of debates to consider postcolonial issues and include voices from the Global South. Together their contributions investigate how media awareness impacts not only the strategies of media use, but also the archival and curatorial consciousnesses of those working in film and media archives, and at science, technology and media museums, as well as educationists, filmmakers and audiences in general." (https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048568260/exposing-the-film-apparatus)

This book will be available Open Access. Its predecessor, Exposing the Film Apparatus: The Film Laboratory as a Research laboratory (2016), has also recently been made available in Open Access (https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106316).

About the Editors

Giovanna Fossati is Professor of Media Heritage, Technology, and Culture at Utrecht University. Formerly Chief Curator of Eye Filmmuseum and Professor of Film Heritage at the University of Amsterdam, her research focuses on audiovisual archiving with a global and sustainable approach.

Annie van den Oever is Distinguished Visiting Professor (University of Johannesburg) and, until recently, Professor of Film (University Groningen) and Extraordinary Professor of Film and Visual Media (University of the Free State). She published Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory in 2022, with Andreas Fickers, and Technics in 2024, with Nicholas Baer.

Contributing Authors

Keith Bennie, Carolina Cappa, Silvia Casini, Liri Chapelan, Seán Cubitt, Miriam De Rosa, Guy Edmonds, Rafael de Luna Freire, Tom Gunning, Tim van der Heijden, Ellen Jansen, Frank Kessler, Bongani, J. Khoza, Sabine Lenk, Tumisho Mahlase, Andrea Mariani, Sanna McGregor, Sergio Minniti, Christian Gosvig Olesen, Gülce Özkara, Pablo Núñez Palma, Nikolaus Perneczky, Landi Raubenheimer, Waldo Roodt, Andrew Simon Tucker, Evelyne Snijders, Simone Venturini, Warshadfilm, Isabel Wschebor, Josef van Wyk.