Archive Circulation Initiative
Tunisia
Cinema,Education,Cultural Heritage,Knowledge Production and Research,Archiving
The Jocelyne Saab Association is a non-profit organization run by volunteers with the aim of promoting the artistic heritage of the Franco-Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), participating in its restoration, and ensuring its wide dissemination.
Muja Films is a production company established in 2022 that seeks to strengthen cinematic relations between the North and South of the Mediterranean by supporting and promoting cinematic talents and projects.
The Digital Archives of Algerian Cinema" is an independent platform established in 2012 on social media networks, aiming to explore post-colonial Algerian cinema while questioning representations of colonial cinema, ultimately seeking to showcase the diverse and relatively unknown elements of Algerian cinema heritage.
Muja Films is a production company established in 2022 that seeks to strengthen cinematic relations between the North and South of the Mediterranean by supporting and promoting cinematic talents and projects.
The Digital Archives of Algerian Cinema" is an independent platform established in 2012 on social media networks, aiming to explore post-colonial Algerian cinema while questioning representations of colonial cinema, ultimately seeking to showcase the diverse and relatively unknown elements of Algerian cinema heritage.
Archive Circulation Initiative
Tunisia
Cinema,Education,Cultural Heritage,Knowledge Production and Research,Archiving
The Jocelyne Saab Association is a non-profit organization run by volunteers with the aim of promoting the artistic heritage of the Franco-Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), participating in its restoration, and ensuring its wide dissemination.
Muja Films is a production company established in 2022 that seeks to strengthen cinematic relations between the North and South of the Mediterranean by supporting and promoting cinematic talents and projects.
The Digital Archives of Algerian Cinema" is an independent platform established in 2012 on social media networks, aiming to explore post-colonial Algerian cinema while questioning representations of colonial cinema, ultimately seeking to showcase the diverse and relatively unknown elements of Algerian cinema heritage.
Muja Films is a production company established in 2022 that seeks to strengthen cinematic relations between the North and South of the Mediterranean by supporting and promoting cinematic talents and projects.
The Digital Archives of Algerian Cinema" is an independent platform established in 2012 on social media networks, aiming to explore post-colonial Algerian cinema while questioning representations of colonial cinema, ultimately seeking to showcase the diverse and relatively unknown elements of Algerian cinema heritage.
Grantee
Reclaiming Our Commons: A Proposal for Cultural Collaboration Across the Arab Region
2024
Film Restoration Workshop
Since 2019, the Jocelyne Saab Association has been working on a collaborative project to safeguard and circulate Arab cinematographic heritage: the Jocelyne Saab Film Restoration Project. This included training technicians on site to restore images in Lebanon and the region (Egypt, Western Sahara, Iran), while freeing themselves from the constraints imposed by institutional funding for film restoration. The training workshops, organized in partnership with a number of organizations, have enabled 10 participants to work on restoring Jocelyne Saab’s films so far, and are now extending their skills and services to other archival collections in the region. The Association has acquired the software needed to perpetuate this activity and wishes to make it available to other film restoration projects. The aim today is to continue skills transmission, through the Archive Circulation Initiative, and to organize additional workshops in other Arab countries, the first of which will be in Tunisia with its partner Muja Films Sirocco, using archives collected by the Archives Numériques du Cinéma Algérien. By enabling the restoration of a marginalized cultural heritage, the Association is creating the conditions for its recirculation. The outcome of these workshops will be the subject of an itinerant festival in various cities of the southern and northern Mediterranean (Tunis, Gabes, Bejaia, Beirut, Mina, Alexandria, Marseille).