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Labocine – ARCHIVES
January 2026 issue

“ARCHIVES opens the year by delving into the layers cinema leaves behind. This Issue gathers films that engage directly with existing material—found footage, family recordings, scientific logs, forgotten reels, reclaimed fragments, or entirely reimagined remnants. Whether through preservation, reinterpretation, decoding, or radical transformation, these works question how memory is constructed, erased, or invented on screen.

ARCHIVES also expands the very idea of what an archive can be: not only historical or institutional, but biological, ecological, familial, and embodied. Cells, landscapes, gestures, oral histories, and data become repositories in their own right—living archives shaped by time, care, and decay. In doing so, these films ask critical questions about authorship and access: who gets to record, preserve, distribute, and own memory, and under what conditions.”