Observed arrival · 2026-10-01
KOFA’s Turkish Amateur and Home-Film Archive
KOFA describes an archive of roughly 15,000 amateur, home, educational, and propaganda films connected to Turkey, with a stated collection scope of 1940–1990.
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- The holdings include about 10,000 retrieved home movies and nearly 5,000 institutional 16mm films.
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KOFA says its self-organized, self-funded collection grew from artist Ege Berensel’s efforts to salvage moving-image records during the shift to digital media. The materials include family footage and field documentation, alongside institutional films on subjects such as public health, labor, architecture, and folklore. The project describes digitization and dedicated preservation facilities as future aims.
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