The making of films leaves and provokes traces of the making. Material to feed the machinery of public relations, interviews, articles, set photography, mediating films, noise, but also hotel bills, correspondance, laboratory results, screenplays and its different versions - all elements telling another story of filmmaking than the films itself, a story of working. It was more likely the work of Danièle Huillet who loosely stored lots of these kind of materials in boxes, material which became auratic over the years - but also were handed out as gifts, as payment for good work and became again working material. Lots of these traces are floating around. To properly assort and preserve the archives come into play. Also the film material itself, filmcopies, become fragil and precarious. Films have to be rescued from the museum, they need to be screened to find their audience. The challenge occurs that preserving is not about guarding but becomes an act of creating.

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