The Projectionist takes the note … Walks the shelf … Consults the wider room … Setting cards on the desk …

Room 03 · the shelf

Forgotten cinema, read and returned.

Every master was once a first-timer. Every forgotten film was once someone's first idea worth chasing. The Library reads them the way we read you, and puts them back on the shelf.

Currently on the shelf

Debuts · Edition No.1

Ten first features chosen because the director's whole voice arrives in one film. Hover a spine.

Pather Panchali 1955 The 400 Blows 1959 Shakespeare Wallah 1965 The Sugarland Express 1974 Eraserhead 1978 Salaam Bombay! 1988 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Bandit Queen 1994 Whale Rider 2002 Monsters 2010

Hover a spine. A card will be drawn from the drawer.

Cans waiting to be catalogued

Nominated titles for the next Edition. Curator's review before they stand on the shelf.

Notes on movements

Nouvelle Vague, New Hollywood, the Iranian New Wave. Folders that grow when a debate demands it.

Letters received

The certificates every reading leaves behind — proof the panel considered a film, kept together on the desk.

Presences on the shelf

Names the machine has read into. Each one a real row we hold, at least as identity. Not all clickable yet.

Borg
Buster Keaton
Diop
Dziga Vertov
Ed Wood
Fritz Lang
F. W. Murnau
Gavron
George A. Romero
Hagar Ben Asher
Herk Harvey
Robert Wiene
Roger Corman
Rupert Julian
Sergei Eisenstein
Stanley Donen
Victor Sjostrom

This machine has read cinema.

Your film gets the same read.

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