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From the Archive, no. 2, vol. 9

Archives for Change: Political Films and the City – The Case of the Amsterdams Stadsjournaal (1974–1984)

In this collaboratively authored piece, the Political Film Archives group considers the theory and practice of archiving underground political films and discusses recent efforts to catalogue, preserve, and exhibit the films of Amsterdams Stadsjournaal, a radical filmmaking collective active in the 1970s and 1980s.
no. 5, Reviewed, vol. 2

Die Sonneninsel (The Sun Island): European Growth, Ideals, Aspirations, and Intricacies

Floris Paalman takes a considered look at Thomas Elsaesser's documentary Die Sonneninsel (The Sun Island). The construction of the European Central Bank on the site of Frankfurt's former wholesale market – a building designed by Elsaesser's grandfather, Martin – offers an opportunity to probe architectural and family history, in what Paalman terms "auto-media archaeology."