Friday, 7 March 2025, 6 p.m.
Permanent screening. A collection of images in motion.
meeting with Enrico Camporesi, responsible for research and documentation at the Centre Pompidou’s film collection in Paris
Casa Cavazzini, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Udine
An oxymoron, to begin with. What is permanent about projection? The event is by definition ephemeral. Yet, as early as 1976, the Centre Pompidou welcomed artist, experimental and avant-garde film into its – permanent – collections. How film, a multiple artifact with a complex biography, is inscribed in the museum collections constitutes the inaugural moment of this intervention.
Starting with archival research on the history of the Centre Pompidou’s collection, it is possible to sketch not only the ways in which artist film is preserved but also the ways in which it is displayed. How are these objects displayed? The projection constitutes the moment when the film becomes an event or a site, in the case of the installation.
The practices and works that have helped to lift (and sometimes distinguish) the history of the moving image from that of “cinema” (expanded cinema, performance, installations) are some of the historiographical pieces of this fragmentary and non-exhaustive narrative, which unravels by skirting the works. A succinct indication of method can be inferred from here: investigating the material consistency of these works helps illuminate their conceptual implications as well.
Enrico Camporesi is responsible for research and documentation at the Centre Pompidou’s film collection. In 2023 he published (with Jonathan Pouthier) L’histoire d’une histoire du cinéma (Parids Expérimental-Centre Pompidou), on the birth of the museum’s film collection. He wrote Futurs de l’obsolescence (Éditions Mimésis, 2018), a book on the restoration of artists’ films. He has just completed, with Catherine de Smet et Philippe Millot, a volume titled Read Frame Type Film on typography and the moving image (to be released in May 2025 by MUBI Editions).
Admission is free while places last.
The meeting is part of the public program of the exhibition Come costruisci le immagini dell’altro? (How Do You Construct Images of the Other?), produced by Altreforme in collaboration with the City of Udine and open at Casa Cavazzini, Udine Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art until March 16, 2025.
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