Swiss Film Archive

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Cinematheque suisse
Type NPO [1]
Legal status Private foundation [1]
Purpose Cinematheque [1]
Cinematography study centre [1]
National museum [1]
Headquarters Casino de Montbenon
Location
Coordinates 46°31′14″N 06°37′30″E  /  46.52056°N 6.62500°E  / 46.52056; 6.62500
Chief Executive
Frederic Maire
Chairman
Jean Studer
Affiliations International Federation of Film Archives [2]
Budget
CHF 5 million [2]
Staff
100 (total)
Website cinematheque .ch /en
Formerly called
Archives cinematographiques suisses

The Cinematheque suisse (Swiss Cinematheque), formerly the Archives cinematographiques suisses (Swiss Film Archive), is a Swiss state-approved non-profit foundation headquartered in Lausanne . It aims to collect, protect, study and present film archives. [1] [3] The Swiss Cinematheque has its archives in Penthaz and a branch office in Zurich .

History [ edit ]

With the support of the Kunstmuseum Basel , a group of admirers of independent films [2] founded the Archives cinematographiques suisses (Swiss Film Archive) in Basel in 1943. [4] [5]

Subsequently, the Association cinematheque suisse (Swiss Cinematheque Association) was created. [6] The archives were transferred to Lausanne to the Cinematheque suisse (Swiss Cinematheque), co-founded by Freddy Buache in 1948 and inaugurated by Erich von Stroheim in 1950. [4] [7] In precarious condition, the Swiss Cinematheque was located on Place de la Cathedrale  [ fr ] in Lausanne. [2] [6] At the time, it had no projection room. [6]

The Swiss Cinematheque was one of the first members of the International Federation of Film Archives . [2]

Claude Emery was the Swiss Cinematheque's first director until Buache held this position from 1951 to 1996. [7]

In 1981, the Cinematheque acquired and moved to the former Casino of Montbenon in Lausanne to establish itself in a better environment. [2] [6]

In 1992, the Swiss Cinematheque began to store archives in a Penthaz building. [8]

The Swiss Cinematheque has been considered "one of the ten most important cinematheques in the world" by the International Federation of Film Archives. [8] [9]

In 1995, the collection of the Swiss Cinematheque ranked sixth among the "most important in the world" after those of Bois d'Arcy [ National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image ], Brussels [ Cinematek ], London [ BFI National Archive ], Moscow [ Gosfilmofond ], and Washington [ Library of Congress ]. [10]

The Swiss Federal Office of Culture has been the foundation's primary funder with the City of Lausanne and the canton of Vaud . [11] [12]

Herve Dumont  [ fr ; de ] was its director from 1996 to 2008. [13] [14]

In the early 2000s, a project was initiated to make the Penthaz site the first federal building dedicated to cinema. [8]

Dumont was succeeded by Vinzenz Hediger  [ de ] in 2008. [15]

Frederic Maire  [ fr ] was appointed director in 2009. [16]

In 2010, renovation and expansion work on the Penthaz building began. [8]

Jean Studer, chairman of the Bank Council of the Swiss National Bank and lawyer, became chairman of the Foundation Board of the Swiss Cinematheque on 1 July 2016, thus succeeding Marc Wehrlin. [17]

Filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Marie Straub were affiliated with the Swiss Cinematheque and maintained close relations with the foundation's members throughout their careers. [18] [19]

The premises in Penthaz became the Swiss Cinematheque Research and Archiving Centre. [8] It was inaugurated on 6 September 2019 in the presence of Federal Councillor Alain Berset and Vaud State Councillor Cesla Amarelle . [8] The total cost was 50.6 million Swiss francs . [8] Located near Lausanne, in the canton of Vaud, the 13,000 square metres (140,000 sq ft) building properly stores hundreds of thousands of film reels and posters. [20] The archives are grouped on three levels in the basement of the Penthaz centre on an area of 5,300 square metres (57,000 sq ft). [8]

On average, 400 films are donated annually to the Swiss Cinematheque by filmmakers, distributors and collectors. [2] Around 15 to 20 films are restored annually by the involvement of the Swiss Cinematheque's staff, which includes 100 professionals, 75 of whom work full-time , as of 2023. [2] The 100 people working for the foundation are spread over three sites: Lausanne, Penthaz and Zurich . [3] About 50 people work at Penthaz, while the branch office is in Zurich and the seat is in Lausanne. [8]

Holdings [ edit ]

As of 2019, the Swiss Cinematheque holds 700,000 reels, 85,000 films, 10,000 scripts , 26,000 books, 500,000 posters, 2,000 old cameras, 3 million photos and 1 million posters. [3] [21] It also includes quantities of documents and other Swiss and foreign cinema objects. [8]

Gallery [ edit ]

  • Hervé Dumont was director of the Swiss Cinematheque from 1996 to 2008
    Herve Dumont was director of the Swiss Cinematheque from 1996 to 2008
  • Frédéric Maire, director since 2009
    Frederic Maire, director since 2009
  • Jean Studer, chairman of the Foundation Board of the Swiss Cinematheque since 2016
    Jean Studer, chairman of the Foundation Board of the Swiss Cinematheque since 2016
  • The Swiss Cinematheque Research and Archiving Centre in Penthaz
    The Swiss Cinematheque Research and Archiving Centre in Penthaz

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

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