This conference is a part of the UKRI UK-India funded project Creative Archives: Producing, Preserving and Showcasing Transnational India Film Heritage, which aims to produce a number of public engagement events to scope creative ideas on how to think about archives through co-creative practices.Archives, for a long time, have been conceptual, critical and, certainly, methodological spaces and terrains for historical pathways of research across a range of disciplines in the Humanities and social sciences. Much like in many disciplines, the term archive and archives has been proven to be elastic and flexible in terms of what they form and how they are formed. However, such flexibility inevitably poses the problem of how archives are constituted, what is the responsibility of archivists and what are, in light of the ever-changing panorama of Indian cinema, the policies to make and preserve film history.
Ines Schaber (2019) in Notes on Archives, dedicated to archival practices and methods, draws on a photographic collection from...