When you blow the dust off the film and video material that floats around both in private homes and in official archives you find stories, untold and ready to be revealed. Stuff like this, edited and shown, can change the way we look at history and it can be used as evidence. Is private material of any public interest or does it belong on the shelves of the people involved? This session will explore archive, from the deeply private to the ostensibly public. Does archive of public interest belong to the commons – should it be freely available? Have some images become part of our visual dictionary and what does this say about the question of ownership
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