The Sally Sebald Fund (Entry n°39 of the Versatile Film Department Archive)

Entry n°39 of the Versatile Film Department Archive : a set of 48 reels of film shot by Sally Sebald, covering a period of thirty years (approx.). Most of the production is documentary, and offers precious insights into the history of VFD film-making. Some works of fiction were retrieved (see Item n°5, 8 and 3, partially), but most of them are thought lost (see the concluding remarks).

Designated archivist : Anatole Svankmajer. Trained in physical bibliography and cinema. Apologies for my handwriting.

“Unsurprisingly, History and its flow of ashes has done a great disservice to an artist so dedicated to cinema everyone always seems to forget she was, more often than not, the person holding the camera. And though her brother’s work is of course paramount in the realm of coded art, I will only say that to understand where we come from, what we’ve been through and possibly why we are still enduring, as an organization, it is to her movies that we should turn.”

Polly Kale, ‘To Remember Sally Sebald: The Eye of the Beholder’.