Philipp Dominik Keidl

Philipp Dominik Keidl is a PhD candidate in Film & Moving Image Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. His research examines the material culture of cinema and institutional and technological shifts in moving image archiving, preservation, and exhibition. His dissertation project Plastic Heritage: Fans and the Making of History examines historiography as fan practice, including case studies on publication projects, restoration tutorials, and fan-curated exhibitions. Philipp holds an MA in ‘Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image’ from the University of Amsterdam, and previously worked at the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv and the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, both in Berlin, and the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt/Main.