remembering the present

I was doing some research into the culture of Luxembourg, i'm planning on applying for an art residency there, god knows if i'll get it. but i came across this website - http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1538&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html - Memory of the World... kind of sounds like it's already gone. "To guard against collective amnesia"...

"..to guard against collective amnesia calling upon the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world ensuring their wide dissemination."

it's interesting to see what has been included so far, it's relatively new only being established in 1992, so not as many things as you would expect are included yet. I went straight searching through for films, these are the ones i found -

Metropolis
The Wizard of Oz
Los Olvidados
Neighbours by Malcolm McClaren
Lumiere Brothers
Ingmar Bergman archives
The Battle of the Somme, a documentary record

palestine refugee woman cut off from her home by the "green line"

There are 3 bullet points under objectives -

• To facilitate preservation, by the most appropriate techniques, of the world's documentary heritage. 
• To assist universal access to documentary heritage.
• To increase awareness worldwide of the existence and significance of documentary heritage. 

Now, i have to go get ready, picking up mihaela from heathrow at 5:)