DBCult Film Institute
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The DBCult Film Institute is an independent
The Film Institute is located in Palermo, Italy, and operates under cult cinema in order to preserve films, related materials in the most advanced manner possible, protect films from deterioration and neglect while also preserving their cultural aspect and future deliverance.
Cult cinema has very specific connotations which defines it. In the Anglosphere they are called
The foundation is managed by goal oriented film scholars, writers and people who work within the
, and related subgenres.History
The DBCult Film Institute was founded in 2011, replacing the BCult Associazione Culturale, founded in 2003. The organization results from the integration between the old BCult A.C. and their new film and cultural collaborators. In 2019 the cultural association, after enlarging its no-profit mission and getting numerous donations of cinematographic materials, change its name becoming ASCinema - Archivio Siciliano del Cinema.[1]
Activities
The DBCult Film Institute is active within seven main areas which are subsidized:
- Restoration and preservation of all films produced before the 1990s.
- Preservation of related material (posters, publications, photos, printed media, soundtracks, etc.)
- Communication of cult movies culture.
- Archives, museum activities.
- Regular public meetings for the use of film festivals and exhibitions.
- Education, offering a range of education initiatives, in particular to support the teaching of film and media studies in schools.
- Maintenance of the Movie Db, Publication Db and Printed Media Db (summaries of information on movies and related artists), a multi-database which contains credits, synopses and other data on global cult film.
Archive
- Film
The institute stock consists of approximately 62.000 movies on different formats of film and video. For the last 40 years these films have come together from either private collectors and/or other foundations. In particular there are some very important collections of Italian, French, British, Spanish, German, Swedish, American, Mexican and Japanese Cinema, among several other productions from many other countries.
- Publication
It keeps about 19.605 books, magazines, comic books, photonovels, fanzines etc. All of which consist of cult movie topics and we also have a rough calculation that includes about 2.207.012 photographs and press cuttings.
- Graphics Stock
Is assembled by a wealth of images on film promotion: some 1.9540.909 documents from posters, lobby cards, pictures and pressbooks.
- Music Stock
Our music stock is devoted to a collection of 6.048 vinyl records and CDs of movie soundtracks.
References
- ^ "Associazione". ASCinema (in Italian). Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- DBCult Film Institute – Press news La Repubblica. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
- DBCult Film Institute – Press news La Repubblica. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
- DBCult Film Institute – Press news TerPress. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- DBCult Film Institute – Essay news Cineteca di Caino. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- Javier G. Romero (2008). The filmwriter's anthology book: Antología del Cine Fantástico Italiano. Bilbao, Spain: Retroback, Septimo Vicio and Quatermass Press. Credits page (BCult). ISBN 978-84-612-7405-5.
- Steven Jay Schneider; Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2007). AZ approach of 501 movie directors: 501 Movie Directors. Sydney, N.S.W. : ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2007. Credits page (BCult). ISBN 978-0-7333-2052-1.