General Information
DESCRIPTION
Devoted to experimental cinema
and artists' films, the Light Cone/AFEA Resource Center is open to students, scholars, teachers, artists
and curators who are researching or helping to promote this field of artistic creativity.
The center's
goal is to encourage cultural action and critical reaction in the realm that Light Cone has so staunchly
defended for the past twenty years, namely avant-garde cinema.
The Resource Center offers a unique
collection of documents and films on both classic and contemporary experimental film practice.
Since 1999 the center has also housed the collection of the Archives du Film Expérimental d'Avignon (AFEA)
The Light Cone/AFEA Resource Center offers:
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A collection of over 1,000 experimental and artists' films, available for viewing. These include
historical films, post-war movements, and current work.
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A set of books,periodicals, and visual
and sound material on avant-garde and experimental cinema, including many rare or out-of-print items such as English
-language publications, exhibition catalogues, magazines from the '30s, '50s, and '70s, ...
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Files on individual artists and institutions in the realm of experimental cinema and artists' films.
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A photo library open to critics
and programmers.
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Information on screenings, festivals and, more generally,
on the current state of experimental cinema and artists' films.
CONDITIONS OF ACCESS
Open by appointment at:
Light Cone
12, rue des Vignoles
75020 Paris
France
- Metro stations: Avron (line 2) or Buzenval (line 9)
- Wednesdays and Thursdays, by appointment, 10am to 6pm
- Films and documents must be consulted on Light Cone's premises,
subject to the availability of places.Films and documents may not be borrowed.
NEW RATES FOR 2008
Annual subscription rates:
- For artists, students, scholars, teachers, individuals: 23€
- For associations, museums, festivals, film library, media, cinemas, foundations, art centers, art galleries: 50€
(subscription valid for three users)
- Preferential access is offered to affiliated scholars (further information on request)
CONTACT
CENTRE NATIONAL DU LIVRE
The Light Cone/Afea's Resource center has
receveid a support from the Centre National du Livre in 2001 and 2003. Visit the Centre National du Livre (CNL) at
www.centrenationaldulivre.fr
