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The proposed collaborative presentation takes into consideration two problematically similar situations, i.e. Argentinian and Italian analogue video preservation. By sharing experiences between these two countries, we have realised that we lack of a dedicated field specifically focused on analogue video, not only in Italy and Argentina, but internationally -which gives the impression that we are ?inventing the wheel? every time. However, when analysing Argentinian and Italian state of the art, it is clear that methods and praxis are similar, and sharing them could help avoiding loss of time and, above all, loss of already constituted experience.Sharing knowledge is also becoming imperative because analogue video is non-human readable, meaning that it is impossible to access it without specific and already obsolete players. Also, signs of material decaying are posing serious issues to the endurance of the carriers and the contents -many of them released more than sixty years ago. Since the seventies, both in Argentina and Italy, video has been the main recording format of key historical events and social processes, but also of cultural and artistic experiences. Moreover, home VCR has served as a strategy for national broadcast documentation, since most TV stations have reused their tapes, poorly digitized the remaining ones, or simply disposed of them. In most cases, the surviving tapes have not been preserved by any national institution, preventing our understanding of video as a media for collective memory resistance. Therefore, a considerable part of our audiovisual legacy is at great risk of becoming a dark chapter of our history. The presentation will provide a brief state of the art in both countries, hoping to address other individuals, communities and institutions that share the same problems and are willing to create a network, hopefully a new branch of FIAF, specifically dedicated to these topics.

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