Around the festival : Film library
moderated by Farid Boughdir - 30th November 2014 at 11 am - Africa Hotel
In a digital world, the memory of a country is that of its
audio-visual archives, the necessity of safeguarding our
patrimony is a crucial issue.
It is our duty to perpetuate the testimonies of the creativity
and culture of our continent so often unrecognised.
Tunisia hosted the Frères Lumière and their cinematograph
as early as 1896 and a few years later, Albert Samama
Chikly shot his first documentaries and his two feature
films here. Many other great names passed by. Of all
this creativity, nothing much is left. The archives of the
colonial era were all transferred to France.
Since the beginning of the 60s, many Tunisian feature
films have been made and since the technological
revolution of the years 2000, we are witnessing an
abundance of documentaries and short films. All this
production has to be listed and archived and there is
nothing more appropriate than a film library.
Let us stop dithering about its possible existence and
let us unite our efforts to make it a reality as soon as
possible.
