tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804227479077564853.post5559237233757202876..comments2023-06-06T15:31:58.363+01:00Comments on BFIwatch: Movieum, MOMI and South Bank film centrespamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06893367916930590273noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804227479077564853.post-7195471925862083242008-03-03T17:33:00.000+00:002008-03-03T17:33:00.000+00:00The Movieum certainly sounds a bit rubbish. But so...The Movieum certainly sounds a bit rubbish. But some people need to get their heads around the fact that the Museum of the Moving Image really wasn't all that, either. It was patronisingly didactic, in the form of one single linear History of Film from which one could not deviate, rather like the showroom in an IKEA. The actors were always slightly embarrassing for anyone over the age of five, and the whole thing had a built-in limited lifespan due to the lack of space to extend the scope of official film history. In its latter years it got rather embarrassing pretending that the history of movie special effects ended with Superman.<BR/><BR/>Investment could have saved it, sure. But is a museum the best way to educate people about moving image these days? Maybe a movie museum is now the kind of concept only suitable for that awkwardly tacky space in County Hall where Saatchi also made a circus out of contemporary art. Workshops, screenings and practical education programmes can all take place without the infrastructure and overhead of a collection that all ends up looking like it should be on the walls of a Hard Rock Cafe somewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com