Collecting Memories

Oct 16, 2024, 10.00 AM @ Festival Center D'24

Event language: English

Documentaries that engage with archival materials play a crucial role in shaping collective memory. By carefully selecting, editing, and presenting archival content, filmmakers can highlight overlooked stories, amplify marginalized voices, and reinterpret well-known events.

However, this process carries significant responsibility. The way archival materials are used can deeply affect how societies remember and make sense of their past. This event will delve into the ethical considerations surrounding the use of archives in documentary filmmaking. We will discuss how to create works that are not only artistically compelling but also historically responsible and socially impactful.

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Ado Hasanović

Ado Hasanović is a Bosnian director based in Rome, a graduate of the Sarajevo Film Academy and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. His award-winning short films include The Angel of Srebrenica, Mama and Let There Be Colour. Since 2015 he has been the artistic director of Passaggi d'Autore. In 2024 he founded the Silver Frame Film Festival in Srebrenica to promote artistic resilience. His debut documentary My Father's Diaries premiered at Visions du Réel 2024.

Barbara Kurowska

Research Associate Testimony Archive at Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

Monika Preischl

Monika Preischl is working as an archive producer and researcher for documentary and fictional film productions worldwide. She won two Focal Awards for best use of „Archive Footage“ and initiated in collaboration with Nadja Tennstedt the DOK ARCHIVE MARKET during DOK Leipzig. 2022 she co-founded the professional association "GRAP", which represents the interests of Archive Researchers* and Archive Producers*.

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Marta Golba-Naumann

Producer, curator, owner of ENDORFINA studio company based in Warsaw and Berlin and co-director of HER Docs Foundation. In 2015 and 2017 she was awarded by Polish Audiovisual Producers Chamber of Commerce for the best producer’s debut for documentary ’15 Corners of the World’ by Zuzanna Solakiewicz and multi-awarded drama “All These Sleepless Nights” by Michał Marczak. Since 2021 she has been developing the industry section within HER DOCS Film Festival.