The New Program for the Winter Semester: THE ARCHIVE'S ALIVE!
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A new semester begins – and with it our program under the title “The Archive Lives!”
Archive – a word that quickly sparks associations: dusty, forgotten, past. Wrong! Instead of dry relics, here lie colorful film cans – neatly stacked, marked with carefully designed labels, systematic, aesthetic, functional. The shelves grow year after year, ready to burst at the seams. Posters change on the walls as if by an invisible hand, and in the air lingers that thrilling (slightly acidic) scent of films longing for the big screen.
Here cinema slumbers – raw, analog, untamed – where humor meets pathos, trash collides with arthouse, clarity rubs shoulders with obscurity. It is a place of cinematic compression, a treasure chamber of collective film dreams. Time, then, to surrender to the celluloid spirits – time to bring them to light.
What is preserved here is nothing less than our very own cinema DNA: grown through donations, swaps, rescues, discoveries, gathered from all corners of the film world with passion, taste, and a good dose of devotion. Since the first 35mm print we discovered in 2017 – a Czech western with Italian subtitles – we’ve been committed not just to archiving analog film, but to keeping it alive: through screenings, as long as the material holds, before it disappears forever. Because “films don’t live in the archive, but in the moment of projection.”
At each screening we also show short films from 30 years of HfG film history.
