A film projection workhop in Tunisia

 Interview with Lilia Ben Achour from Focus Archive, who recently set up a film projection workshop in Gabès, Tunisia, about this initiative and the state of photochemical film projection in this country, past and future.
How did this idea come about?The idea is directly linked to my career path. I grew up in the film club movement, then taught audiovisual archive management at university and worked as artistic director of the National Film Archive. My career path is therefore closely linked to the history of cinema and its media. On several occasions, I wanted to program and screen films on film, but I came up against a reality: experienced projectionists who were often nearing the end of their careers, a generation that had not really passed on its know-how, theaters that were no longer equipped with the appropriate equipment, and...

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Filmmakers, artists, producers, archivists, distributors, programmers or members of the audience, whether involved in the festival network, the archival world, contemporary art, independent venues, or all kinds of film-making, from the movie industry to the underground, we assert the importance of building a future for photochemical film projection and intend to share resources toward that goal.