Conference Session 86

Plenary Session

13 August 2012 08:30 - 09:30 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI

Toute la mémoire du monde - The memory of the entire world
Plenary Speaker: PETER VON BAGH (Professor of film history in the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland)

Peter von Bagh is a film historian, author of more than 30 books on film, history and popular arts (including The history of World Cinema, 1975 and 1998, and a book about and with Aki Kaurismäki, published in five languages). Doctor in Political Sciences; television and radio producer for all his life; a book publisher (more than 100 books from Balzac to Eisenstein, Meyerhold, Fellini and whatever); a film director, with speciality in compilation films, including large series as Oi kallis Suomenmaa, a history of Finland (1997), and Song of Finland (Sininen laulu), a 12-hour program on the history of arts in Finland - which 2007 became Finlandia prize winning book.

Later films include "Helsinki Forever" and "Sodankylä Forever" that have toured around the world. Scriptwriter (e.g. films by Risto Jarva); editor-in-chief (since 1971) of the "Filmihullu" magazine; curator (1967-70) and program director (1970-85) of the Finnish Film Archive; a professor of film history in The Helsinki University of Arts; artistic director and co-founder (with the Kaurismäki brothers) of The Midnight Sun Film Festival; artistic director of an Italian film festival called Il cinema ritrovato (Bologna, since 2001).

Chair: Kimmo Tuominen
(NC Co-Chair, Chief Librarian of Jyväskylä University Library, President of the The Finnish Research Library Association, Finland)