The Archive Paradox

Join us for the performance of Ruth Beale’s Lindgren & Langlois: The Archive Paradox, a dramatised exchange of letters between two influential film archivists on opposing sides of the debate between preservation and circulation.

Beale has constructed a narrative from the writing, correspondence and commentators of Ernest Lindgren, the BFI National Film Archive’s first curator who was careful, scientific and restrained by public responsibilities and budgets; and Henri Langlois, the flamboyant and passionate co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française who collected, saved, and screened as widely as possible.

There will be a chance to meet the artist and actors after the performance.

The Grand Union, Thursday 28 November 7-8pm, free entry