The three-month Living Archive Residency offers international artists and curators the opportunity to carry out research and watch films from the Arsenal archive with a view to developing their own project. We are happy to welcome current grant-holder Lisabona Rahman from Jakarta to the Arsenal cinema on October 2. Her focus lies on films by female filmmakers who work on 16mm and developed different forms of notebook, diary and sketchbook films: A PORTRAIT OF GA (1952) and COLOUR POEMS (1974) by Margaret Tait, NOTEBOOK (1962) by Marie Menken, O-DE-KA-KE-DIARY (1988) by Utako Koguchi and DER SCHMETTERLING IM WINTER (2006) by Ute Aurand and Maria Lang.

The Living Archive Residency was started in 2011 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

Georgia is this year’s guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 10-14.

In this context, we are presenting our new publication “Family Affairs – Cinematic Relationships between Georgia and Arsenal” at the Georgian national stand, Hall 5.0, B.100 on 13.10. at 4pm with some special guests. The volume emerged from the comprehensive film series shown at the Arsenal cinema in October 2017 and encompasses film discussions, essays, an overview of the Georgian film prints in the Arsenal archive, and a panel discussion.