Begin with a trace in your hands 从你手上的一份材料开始
It may be a film, poster, programme, event photograph, old article, or a memory of a screening or filmmaker. Even incomplete information can become a point of departure.
Build This Memory Together
Build This Memory
Together
一起补全这份记忆
Moving images that begin in Chaoshan travel with people, language, and lived experience. Years later, they may return as a file, a photograph, or a remembered story.
KwanTeo works with material holders, creators, researchers, festivals, and cultural institutions to identify and understand these traces. Collaboration is not simply a transfer of material. It is a shared process of establishing provenance, restoring connections, and deciding how something should be preserved, studied, and made visible.
Ways to Take Part
参与路径Material holders are participants in the archive 材料持有者也是档案的参与者
What you know about a material's origins, people, and circumstances cannot always be recovered from the object alone. We work together to add context, verify relationships, and preserve unresolved questions.
Create new public connections 让档案进入新的公共连接
The archive can support research into local film history, dialect cinema, and migration, and can inform screenings, exhibitions, publications, forums, and educational programmes.
Support work that takes time 为时间更长的工作提供条件
Local moving-image archives require sustained digitization, storage, research, and care. We welcome long-term partnerships that strengthen equipment, technical capacity, funding, and institutional networks.
Start with a trace
Start with a trace
If you hold a piece of material, an unidentified name, or a question you would like to explore together, write to us. It does not need to be complete or fully organized. We can begin with the first act of recognition.