CineGraph – Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung e.V. was founded in 1989 by employees of the film encyclopedia of the same name, an international standard work on German-language film, as a registered association.
The goal of CineGraph is to boost the knowledge of film culture. For that, the center conveys the results of film historical research through congresses and retrospectives, seminars, exhibitions, publications and multimedia. The non-profit association also supports and advises research projects on film and media history.
CineGraph pursues film history as media history, that means as a representation of the complex interaction of aesthetics, technology, politics and economics in a contemporary historical environment. CineGraph is an internationally networked film heritage institution. For over 30 years, its reputation has been based on an impressive series of scientific publications on film as well as on the precision in researching biographical and filmographic data.
Since 2001, CineGraph has been a member of the Kinematheksverbund, which includes the most important German film institutes. In addition to basic research, CineGraph promotes general knowledge of German-language film on a non-profit basis.
Further information at www.cinegraph.de
The Film Archive Department of the Federal Archives documents 120 years of film history. It is one of the largest archives of its kind worldwide and the central German film archive.
The film inventory currently includes around 154,000 documentaries and movies on more than a million film reels and other media.
Since its founding in the 1950s, the film archive has collected German films of all genres, including newsreels, animated films, documentaries and feature films, as long as they were not produced by television. On October 3, 1990, the State Film Archive of the GDR was merged with the Federal Archives. As a archive for supporting documents for FFA, BKM and other film funding institutions, the Federal Archives is also committed to the long-term archiving of digitally created films and the digitization of analogue film heritage. The Film Archive department of the Bundesarchiv also contains written documents, photos and posters on film history that document the artistic and technical development of the film medium or the creation and impact of individual productions. In addition, the Federal Archives is also responsible for the mandatory registration of all German film productions for the cinema. The headquarters of the Federal Archives are in Koblenz, the film archive department is in Berlin. The Federal Archives has been the official co-organizer of the Film History CineGraph conferences since 1990. The years of successful collaboration between the archive and the Film History Center as part of the conferences have encouraged the two partners to dedicate a regular series of events to German film heritage with the cinefest from 2004 onwards.
Further information at www.bundesarchiv.de