We're very pleased to announce that most of Ulrike Ottinger's films are now available in digital format (DCP and/or Blu-ray.)

"With her films, Ulrike Ottinger has re-invented the theatrical and ethno-poetic capturing and description of the Other in film and in a playful manner literally quashed the difference between European and non-European cultures, as well as between feature and ethnographic cinema. [...] Her work is captivating in the beautiful way it combines seriousness and cheerfulness, rigor and poetry, epos and lightness, myth and history, and tradition and modernity." (Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs)

It is with great sadness that we received the news that our friend, colleague and Living Archive participant Ian White died on Saturday, October 16, at the age of 41.

Ian White was a curator, author, artist and teacher. In his long collaboration with the London film institution LUX he initiated, organized and curated numerous project, among them the Associate Artist Programme. As a jury member and curator he was a regular guest at the International Shortfilm Festival in Oberhausen. He also worked for Whitechapel Gallery and the Frieze Art Fair.

His connection to the Arsenal started in 2009, when he spent three months in our house as an Arsenal curator in residency, in a program organized in cooperation with the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service. During his stay, he curated the program "It's Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Situation in Which He Lives: Art, Cinema, Context Now", which addressed the relationship between artistic and curatorial practice - between a film presentation and its contexts. Ian‘s work in general and this project in particular, were a major inspiration for the concept of "Living Archive - Archival work as a contemporary curatorial and artistic practice".