ARCHIVE + COMUNICATION
The Audiovisual Archive is a center of audiovisual production focused in the preservation, conservation, catalogue and publishing of contemporary Argentinean culture.
It is constituted by:
- Audiovisual interviews —produced by its own team— focused on the lives of the artists and on the creative process of the different disciplines: Literature, Theater, Visual Arts, Music and Movies.
- A documental base that includes audio and video recordings of TV and radio programs, readings, conferences, exhibitions, theater plays, documentaries and films on life and work of Argentinean writers, visual artists, theater personalities and musicians.
In order to watch
the audiovisual material,
arrange and appointment:
* Monday to Friday,
from 2 to 6 pm.
* by phone: 4806-1659/1647.
* by e-mail
- How does it work?
- Which is the difference between the material at the public attention area and the one on the website?
- Do you offer any advice?
- What can be found?
- How does the archive grow?
- How could I collaborate?
- It is possible to copy the material?
- Does the Audiovisual Archive loan the material?
The public attention area is equipped with computers, television sets and CD, DVD and VHD players. Through a catalogue searching, it is possible for the user to watch on the computer, for example, the interviews done. It is also possible to watch a video or listen to an audio file of a theater director. To consult the registries, you must arrange an appointment:
Phone: 4806-1659-1647
e-mail: audiovideoteca@buenosaires.gov.ar
Which is the difference between the material at the public attention area and the one on the website?
The audio and video archives on our website are fragments of the interviews done by the Audiovisual Archive team. The audio and video registries of all the sections are a little part of the original ones. At the public attention area it is possible to watch or listen to the complete documentaries. See Orientation Guide.
In order to find what it is request, the Audiovisual Archive counts with skilled staff to help users through the searching, make easier the access to documents.
We are working with the Information System Area of the Buenos Aires City Government to develop a self consulting system in order to make easier the user’s access to all the Audiovisual Archive’s documental base in digital format.
In the Archive, it can be found (in audio and/or video format): interviews, TV and radio programs, seminaries, debates and theatre plays, among other registries.
It can also be found complementary documents, such as biographies and bibliographies and historical contexts that allow to place each personality in space and time.
The Audiovisual Archive content actualization never stops. The documental base grows with the new interviews done by the Audiovisual Archive team, and through the support of relatives and friends of the theater world who bring materials from their private archives, and the donations of all the theater lovers that make their contribution.
The Audiovisual Archive accepts donations.
However, in many cases, those who have any material from a relative or writer do not want to give it away.In those cases, a properly way is agree in order to make a copy and give the original back to the owner.
En todos los casos, en la descripción que se realiza del material queda constancia no sólo quién es el autor, de quiénes son los derechos sino también quién fue la persona que acercó el material.
It is possible to copy the material?
No, the current legislation prohibits it.
Does the Audiovisual Archive loan the material?
No. The Audiovisual Archive does not work as a video club. The material is part of a documental base that has as main goal to keep and take care of the registries.
Further information: audiovideoteca@buenosaires.gov.ar
Audiovisual Archive of Writers
Centro Cultural Recoleta. Junín 1930, 1º floor.
Tuesdays to Fridays, from 2 to 8 pm, 4806-1647/1659.