With conservation at the core of our mission, we look forward to this opportunity to explore a related and unique correlation to film. The history of cinema can be traced back to the late 19th century, and today archival films are to be treasured. The Library Society, in partnership with the Nuovo Cinema Italian Film Festival, presents the exploration of Cinema Ritrovato, the annual film festival presented by Cineteca di Bologna in Italy. As an extension of their November festival, they are bringing to Charleston (for the third year) Cinema Ritrovato On Tour, an internationally recognized festival in conjunction with the Cineteca Bologna to screen classics and retrospectives to support the continued restoration of films from labs and archives around the world. To kick off the three-day festival, Kim Tomadjoglou, audio and visual curator and archivist, will join CLS to share clips and insights into the work required along with examples of how collective film viewing is critical to preserving our history in film.
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About Kim Tomadjoglou
Dr. Kim Tomadjoglou is an audio-visual curator-archivist specializing in rights clearances, preservation, collections management, and museum programming and has curated retrospectives at museums and festivals internationally. She has served as director of the American Film Institute’s National Collection and as principal liaison to the Library of Congress, where she was a 2019 Kluge Fellow.
About Cinema Ritrovato
Welcome to Cinema Ritrovato – the thirty-eighth edition! – where once again we will celebrate the irreplaceable experience of collective film-viewing. Besides the three open air spaces – Piazza Maggiore, Arena Puccini and Piazzetta Pasolini – no fewer than eight cinemas will host the nearly five hundred films in the programme: restored masterpieces and hidden gems of every era, provenance and format. In addition to the usual two screens of the Lumière, DAMSLab, Cervi and the Europa, Arlecchino and Jolly cinemas, this year will also include the Modernissimo, which last November was returned to its former splendour and to the city following a long and complex reconstruction project which will conclude during the festival itself with the opening of the new entrance in the middle of Piazza Re Enzo. The Modernissimo project had to be conceived and realised, and it needed institutions which could support and finance it, but without the public which filled the cinema Lumière for over forty years, without the international audiences of Cinema Ritrovato which demonstrated its prestige, without a community that believes in the cinema and its history, today the Modernissimo would not exist. With gratitude and pride, and in the company of an extraordinary roster of international guests, we await you for another memorably journey through space and time in order to rediscover the history of the cinema.
About Nuovo Cinema Italian Film Festival
Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival, established in 2006, has become the premiere red carpet event of its kind in the United States and a unique opportunity in Charleston to view a large selection of the best contemporary Italian movies. Premiering at Queen Street Playhouse, the festival brings filmmakers to town to discuss their work and interact with patrons and students. The festival strives not only to entertain, but to educate. For this reason it provides students with opportunities to watch Italian films and interact with Italian filmmakers, and offers those affiliated with a college or university a discount to screenings.
