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Session IV: Archive – What do we Keep and Why?
October 15, 2022 , 16:30 – 18:30
Moderated by Lydia Gauss
What do we keep and why? Is it about the objects or rather for the sake of remembering? An archive shows what has been preserved over time and yet many materials seem useless without the knowledge of them in memory.
Melancholic Diasporas (9 min)
Switzerland / Sweden, 2022, Swedish / Swiss German / English sub.
Directed by Anna Joos
Melancholic Diasporas is an archive-based documentary on Italian migration in Switzerland. Anna Joos found some family archive of her great grandfather that depicted a part of her father’s life that was unfamiliar to her. This film shows the space the archive carved out for us to talk about this part of him for the first time.
Anna Joos is a Swedish/Swiss visual anthropologist. She obtained an MA from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester in 2019. Currently she is based at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
La Place des Choses / Where Things Go (75 min)
Switzerland / Belgium, 2022, French / English sub.
Directed by Baptiste Aubert
In Belgium, in the post-industrial city of Verviers, Baptiste Aubert filmed a group of men who collect and repair old textile machines. Imitating their passion, he also started a collection and began to wander around the city’s flea markets in search of weaving shuttles. Through the ethnography of these two collections, the film Where Things Go questions the objects that cross our lives and explores our relationship to memory and the past.
Baptiste Aubert works as an assistant at the University of Neuchâtel where he is completing his PhD thesis in visual anthropology. He is also a member of the anthropologist and filmmaker collective AREC (a-rec.ch).
