Search & Rescue

Search & Rescue

Search and Rescue is a quarterly public investigation designed to showcase discarded archives of over 7000 films de-accessioned from educational institutions and donated by private collectors. Ranging from political propaganda to educational reels to scientific documents to the unclassifiable, this collection is full of surprises, accidental poetry, intentional mistakes and random moments of enlightenment.

Search & Rescue offes the greatest commodity in cinema today, the unexpected. 

To read the article "Archiving the Future" by Andy Spletzer, please click here.

 

Search & Rescue

Jul 05, 2012

Revel in a smorgasbord of cinematic frivolities, hand-selected by visiting archivist Gem Seddon from the Film Forum’s collection of educational, instructional and downright catastrophic 16mms reels. With subjects ranging from the intricacies of molluscoidea to newsreels of faded beauty queens, our vault houses the past in all its imperfect glory. 

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