Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre ( uk, Національний центр Олександра Довженка; also Dovzhenko Centre, uk, Довженко-Центр) is the state
film archive
An archive is an accumulation of Historical document, historical records or Historical source, materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located.
Archives contain primary source documents that have accumula ...
and a cultural cluster in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe.
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Ukraine
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History
It was founded in 1994 by a decree of the
President of Ukraine
The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...
. In 2000, Dovzhenko Centre was merged with the former Kyiv Film Printing Factory (established in 1948), the only and the biggest of its kind in Ukraine, and took over its property, facilities, and film collection. Since 2006 the Centre has been a member of the
International Federation of Film Archives
The International Federation of Film Archives (french: Fédération internationale des archives du film, FIAF) was founded in Paris in 1938 by the Cinémathèque Française, the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin, the British Film Institute and the Museum ...
. The Ukrainian Animation Film Studio (aka Ukranimafilm, established in 1990) was attached to the Centre in 2019.
From 2016 - 2019 the former industrial premises of the Centre underwent a complete renovation and refurbishment, and were converted into a multi-artform cultural cluster. In September 2019 the Centre opened the first Film Museum in Ukraine.
In July 2022, directorship of the Centre was transferred from the
Ministry of Culture and Information Policy to the
Ukrainian State Film Agency
The Ukrainian State Film Agency ( uk, Державне агентство України з питань кіно; romanization: ''Derzhavne ahentstvo Ukrayiny z pytanʹ kino''), known in short as Derzhkino ('' uk, Держкіно''), is the centr ...
. The Agency subsequently announced plans to split the Centre into three different institutions - a research archive, an animation studio, and a public events centre - saying than an audit had found the Centre's structure unprofitable. The Agency refused to publish the audit publicly, citing the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. ...
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Structure
Dovzhenko Centre's operates a film depository, chemical and digital film laboratories, the Film Museum, a film archive and a mediatheque. The institution is housed in an eight-storey building in Kyiv's Holosiiv district. It also operates a 300-seat performing arts venue Scene 6,
New stage (A new age of Ukrainian theatre
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Collection
Dovzhenko Centre's film collection includes over 7,000 Ukrainian, Russian, American and European feature, documentary and animation films; thousands of archive documents, photos, posters and other artifacts that represent the history of Ukrainian cinema from the beginning of ХХ century until the present day. The oldest film print preserved by the Centre dates back to 1910, and the oldest Ukrainian feature film in the Centre's collection was produced in 1922.
See also
* Cinema of Ukraine
Ukrainian cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Ukraine and also by Ukrainian film makers abroad.
Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterized b ...
* List of film archives
This is a list of film archives and cinematheques. Film archives collect, restore, investigate and conserve audiovisual content like films, documentaries, television programs and newsreel footage. Often, every country has its own film archive to ...
Sources
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Film organizations in Ukraine
Film archives in Europe