Lila Foster is a curator, researcher and film preservationist. Articulating historical research and audiovisual preservation, her work focuses on the history of amateur production and home movies in Brazil. She is currently the Director of Institutional Relations of the Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Preservation (ABPA).
Home Movies, amateur films and film archives: New Paths in films history and film preservation
In 2007, I worked as a cataloguer at the Cinemateca Brasileira, Brazil's largest film archive. A major part of the job was analyzing materials that had recently been donated to the archive and it was not uncommon to run into large collections of 16mm films, still kept in Kodak and Ansco film boxes, complete with nicely handwritten notes displaying what they contained.
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