Contributors

Preface

Introduction

1. Film/Restitution: Contesting Displacement, Enclosure, and Uneven Relations of Care in Global Audiovisual Archiving

Nikolaus Perneczky and Cecilia Valenti



2. Footage Lost and Found: A Roundtable on Africa’s Displaced and Silenced Film Heritage

Ali Essafi, Nii-Kwate Owoo, Jihan El-Tahri, and Jean-Marie Teno in Conversation with Nikolaus Perneczky

3. Six Scenes of (Dis)engagement: Creating Friction in the Italian Fascist and Colonial Archives

Alessandra Ferrini

4. Decolonizing the Colonial Film Archive: Access to Ghana’s Shared Cinematic Heritage

Rebecca Ohene-Asah

5. Scenes from the Archive

Onyeka Igwe

6. Burning to Give Access: Mapping, Repatriating, and Sustaining Audiovisual Archives of the South African Liberation Struggle Through the Visual History Explorer

Janneke van Dalen

7. Reactivating Ethnographic Image Collections: Toward a Decolonial Archivology

Petra Loffler

Institutions & Practices

8. A View from the North: A Conversation on Global Audiovisual Archiving, Shared Heritage, and Archival Cooperation

Giovanna Fossati, Nikolaus Perneczky, and Cecilia Valenti

9. Restoring Ray: On the Geo-Cultural Politics of “Saving Cinema”

Amrita Biswas

10. Caring for Indigenous Audiovisual Heritage in Australia: On Shared Archival Authority, Culturally Appropriate Protocols, and Digital Returns

Tasha James

11. Institutional Memory and Archival Returns: History of a Negotiated Transport of Films from the BFI to the National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago

Xavier Alexandre Pillai

12. African Cinema Returns: Tracing Guinean Film Heritage in Eastern European Archives

Gabrielle Chomentowski

Rethinking Restitution, Widening the Circle

13. Questioning Return: A Conversation on Decolonial Approaches Toward Restitution, Repair, and Care in Authoritarian (Post)colonial and Imperial Film Heritage and Cinema Cultures

Ali Hussein Al-Adawy and Brigitta Kuster

14. Films That Don’t Exist Do Exist: Restituting a Missing Cinema

Lea Morin

15. Restoration, Restitution, and Potential History: A Dialogue with Abdoul War on Med Hondo’s Archive

Annabelle Aventurin

16. Noli Me Tangere: Contextualizing Moving Image Restitution in the Community-Based Archival Practice of Forum Lenteng and Otty Widasari

Luthfan Nur Rochman

17. To Oralize or to Digitize? Re-Membering Nigeria’s Contested Archives

Didi Cheeka

Index