Cold Storage is a project affiliated with the Library Test Kitchen, a documentary in two interconnected senses.  It is a classic linear documentary short that reworks and updates Alain Resnais’s classic 1957 portrait of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Toute la mémoire du monde in the form of an institutional portrait of the Harvard Depository. Cold Storage is also an experimental “database documentary” developed by not only the metaLAB team, but also the student participants in a design studio that was held in Spring 2014. This more extended representation of the life of the HD will include a wide array of interviews, field ethnographic work, archival materials, and curatorial projects carried out in various media over the course of the past year: all this, bundled up within a website (still a work in progress).

Project Team: 

Pablo Barria Ureda
Creative Technologist
metaLAB (at) Harvard

Matthew Battles
Associate Director
metaLAB (at) Harvard

Caitlin Christian-Lamb
Project Producer
metaLAB (at) Harvard

Cristoforo Magliozzi
Project Coordinator
metaLAB (at) Harvard

Jeffrey Schnapp
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Faculty Director
metaLAB (at) Harvard

Jessica Yurkofsky
Creative Technologist
metaLAB (at) Harvard