PASO Festival Archive Screening on Audiovisual Heritage Day, October 27

For the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, COMD opens its own archive and will screen a short film selection from the 2nd PASO film festival from October 2001 on Thursday (October 27), 17:00 at FB 309 in the Graphic Design building.

World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 27 October

“The stories told by this heritage are powerful expressions of culture and place, weaving together personal and collective experience, reflecting the search for meaning shared by all. This heritage provides an anchor in a world of change, especially for local communities, providing records of cultural activities, reflecting the great diversity of expressions.”

Irina Bokova Director-General of UNESCO

2016 Theme:“It’s Your Story – Don’t Lose It”

“Audiovisual documents, such as films, radio and television programmes, are our common heritage and contain the primary records of the 20th and 21st centuries. They help to maintain the cultural identity of a people; but countless documentary treasures have disappeared since the invention of image and sound technologies that permit the peoples of the world to better share their experiences, creativity, and knowledge.

All of the world’s audiovisual heritage is endangered. Nowhere can it be said to be preserved, but through initiatives such as the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and the Memory of the World Programme, the precious work of preservation professionals is given impetus to manage a range of technical, political, social, financial and other factors that threaten the safeguarding of our heritage.

It was in this context, that the General Conference in 2005 approved the commemoration of a World Day for Audiovisual Heritage as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need for urgent measures to be taken and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents as an integral part of national identity.”

The Department of Communication and Design is in its 18th year since its foundation in 1998. Already in 1999 students from COMD started to plan a short film festival initiative they called PASO. Between 1999 and 2009 PASO was a collaborative meeting point for young national and international filmmakers with special guests from Germany, England, Italy, and Georgia. 

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