For Robin Baker, the head curator of the BFI archive [British Film Institute] archive, more important still are the grandchildren yet to come. His stock of thousands of miles of film and documents on television and film stretches, as you would expect, far into the past, but it also reaches for the future. Each week the archive , which is housed around a group of old farm buildings in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, selects a range of current images from feature films, commercial network television and the visual arts to preserve for the ages.
The team that selects television programmes for the archive tries to represent the general output, but their curatorial concerns centre on whether to pick out those episodes of, say, Britain’s Got Talent that had the most impact at time of broadcast or those that were most typical of the talent show genre in 2009.
Source: The Guardian (via AMIA)
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