Accidental Archivism

<p>In the digital media ecology archives are changing. Artists curators critics and scholars assume the role of accidental archivists. They shape cinema's futures by salvaging precarious repositories and making them matter in new ways. In the process the cinema's public a democratic body seemingly scattered about platforms and niches in a post-pandemic world re-emerges as a political force.</p><p><br></p><p>Accidental Archivism brings together programmatic statements and proposals to explore an artistic space between archiving and activism a space where remnants of the past become the building blocks of new ways of making showing teaching and thinking cinema.</p>