Symposium Panel 2: Archival Resilience

The current archival moment is a moment of war in which institutions of heritage become targets of power struggles and violence. It is also a moment of a crisis in public confidence in which cultural policies call into question, rather than encourage and support, heritage work. How can institutions and heritage workers navigate this moment and find sources of resilience in their environments and networks?

Born in Iran in 1986, Hadi Alipanah is a film critic, journalist, and scholar. He began his career in 2008, writing reviews for specialized short film magazines and several other journals and newspapers. For many years he has organized short film festivals, curated short film screenings, and supervised the production of hundreds of shorts. In 2015 he founded FiDAN, Iranian short film magazine, as an independent platform for introducing Iranian short films and filmmakers. His ongoing research on the history of short films in Iranian cinema led him to discover the activities of the short film collective Cinema-ye Azad, which was active in Iran between 1969 and 1979.

Anastasiya Verlinska worked for ten years as a project manager at FILM.UA Group. She joined LINOLEUM Animation Festival in 2014 and became its director in 2016. She curates screenings, develops educational programmes, and contributes to cultural policy as an expert for the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, Ukrainian State Film Agency, and RES-POL, supporting evidence-based cultural and media policy development in Ukraine.