Archival Appetites: in search of a national cinema

Presented by Professor Deb Verhoeven

What are we looking for when we build an archive? Or when we visit one? What famishments fuel an archival appetite?

There are many reasons for national archives, ranging from instrumental record keeping to the historical legacies of institutionalised collecting.

This talk explores the way “search” has shaped the National Film and Sound Archive at both a pragmatic level and as revealing a foundational appetite at the heart of our national cinema; a sense of human yearning, and an implicit acknowledgement that something is missing or lost.

More about Rod Wallace and the lecture series here