In the organizer's words:
Digitization of analogue video and sound recordings from archives in Saxony.
Amateur and travel films, ethnographic studies and experimental art - many films and sound recordings were made in Saxony away from the general public. For more than five years, the Saxony Film Association and the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB) have been working to digitize and preserve analogue film and sound material from Saxony.
After "The Preserved View" was already shown in Dresden in 2023/24, the SAVE program is now also presenting the exhibition in a modified form in Leipzig and invites you to the cinema of the everyday and the incidental in and in front of the Cinémathèque Leipzig at the beginning of the new year. You can see and hear recordings from various contexts of origin and from different regions of Saxony. Moving images from Leipzig and the surrounding areas will be given a special stage.
Part of the exhibition can also be experienced from the sidewalk outside of opening hours, as two large display windows of the Cinémathèque will flicker from the evening hours with memories of the almost sophisticated Café Hausmann in Borna in 1927, the first Frohburg triangular race, small-scale mechanization in open-cast mining, the Chess Olympics in Leipzig with a very young Bobby Fisher (all around 1960) and cine films from regional family collections.
ENG: Amateur and travel films, ethnographic studies, and experimental art - many films and sound recordings were created in Saxony away from the public eye. For more than five years, the Saxony Film Association and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) have been working to digitize and preserve analog film and sound material from Saxony.
After "Der bewahrte Blick" (The Preserved View) was already shown in Dresden in 2023/24, the SAVE program is now presenting the exhibition in a modified form in Leipzig and invites visitors to the cinema of the everyday and the incidental in and in front of the Cinémathèque Leipzig at the beginning of the new year. On display are recordings from a variety of contexts and from different regions of Saxony. Moving images from Leipzig and the surrounding areas will be given a special stage.
Even outside opening hours, part of the exhibition can be experienced from the sidewalk, as two large windows of the Cinémathèque will be converted into screens to show memories of the sophisticated Café Hausmann in Borna in 1927, the first Frohburg Triangle Race, small-scale mechanization in open-cast mining, the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig with a very young Bobby Fisher (all around 1960), as well as narrow-gauge films from regional family collections.
About SAVE:
Since 2019, the Saxony Film Association and the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB) have been committed to the preservation, digitization and provision of historical film, video and sound recordings from the Free State of Saxony as part of the joint program "Safeguarding the Audio-Visual Heritage in Saxony" (SAVE). So far, over 100,000 minutes of footage have been secured in collaboration with around 50 institutional and private collections and, where possible, made available free of charge for academic and private research. This is done by indexing the media in publicly accessible catalogs and publishing them in the SLUB's digital media library. The media that have been secured are primarily little-known recordings of everyday life in Saxony over the past 100 years that are stored in museums, archives, libraries and private collections - amateur films about personal life and travels around the world, ethnographic studies, but also experimental art - that were created in Saxony away from the general public.
The program is funded by the Free State of Saxony. However, the drastic cuts in Saxony's 2026/27 double budget have not bypassed SAVE either, which means that the preservation of the regional audiovisual heritage is currently significantly slowed down.
ENG: Since 2019, the Saxony Film Association and the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB) have been working together on the joint program "Preserving Saxony's Audiovisual Heritage" (SAVE) to preserve, digitize, and make available historical film, video, and audio recordings from the Free State of Saxony. To date, more than 100,000 minutes of footage have been preserved in collaboration with around 50 institutional and private collections and, where possible, made available free of charge for academic and private research. This is achieved by cataloging the media in publicly accessible catalogs and publishing it in the SLUB's digital media library. The preserved media consists primarily of previously little-known recordings of everyday life in Saxony over the past 100 years, stored in museums, archives, libraries, and private collections-amateur films about personal living environments and travels around the world, ethnographic studies, but also experimental art-which were created in Saxony away from the public eye.
The program is financed by funds from the Free State of Saxony. However, the drastic cuts in the Saxon double budget for 2026/27 have also affected SAVE, which means that the preservation of the regional audiovisual heritage is currently being significantly slowed down.
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