Films and documentaries about archiving
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Films and documentaries about archiving. Please, help with expanding this list if you can.
Image | Title | Year | Director(s) | Topic(s) | Language(s) | Duration | Summary |
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La oscura era digital: ¡socorro! ¡estamos despareciendo! (mirror) |
2004 | Jörg Daniel Hissen Peter Moers |
Digital preservation Digital Dark Age |
Spanish | 51 min. | It analyses the effects of digital obsolescence, destruction of data and digital preservation efforts. It includes interviews to Stewart Brand, founder of Long Now Foundation. | |
Toute la mémoire du monde (mirror) |
1956 | Alain Resnais | National libraries | French English (subs) |
20 min. | An essay on the potential and the limits of dutifully archived human knowledge, masquerading as a documentary on the organisation of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. | |
Digital Amnesia (mirror) |
2014 | Bregtje van der Haak | Internet Archive | English French (subs) Spanish (subs) |
49 min. | Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia? Featuring Brewster Kahle, Jason Scott, the ArchiveTeam Warrior software, and more. | |
A free digital library | 2007 | Brewster Kahle | Internet Archive | English 24 langs. (subs) |
20 min. | Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history... It's all free to the public- unless someone else gets to it first. | |
- Internet Archive
- TED Talk about Internet Archive by Brewster Kahle (subtitles in many languages)
- Internet Archive by Deepspeed media [1]
- Photography
- Records, vynils
- VHS
- Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector - A documentary capturing the modern day VHS culture and VHS collectors. (NSFW-ish)