Found Future #3: A Future for AIDS Film Archives

With Björn Koll and Marc Siegel

For decades, the film distributor Salzgeber has dedicated itself to a lesser-known chapter of film history: the AIDS film. Björn Koll and Marc Siegel discuss why this is the case and what significance engaging with AIDS films could have for cinema. Amid a life-threatening reality and new dimensions of social exclusion, the 1980s fundamentally renegotiated the aesthetic and political questions of film and the relationship between documentary and fiction

Björn Koll is the director of the German distribution company Salzgeber.

Marc Siegel is Professor of Film Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz since October 2020.