Film Archaeology is a method, an approach and a sub-field of Film and Media Studies. It has come into being through a number of provocations: the shift from analogue to digital cinema, the fast-paced obsolescence of media forms (the sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling talks about various dead media that may be only a few years old), the invisibility of the material realm in a world that is increasing oriented by the virtual (online) environment, and the realization that most of our experiences are visually mediated, blurring the line demarcating fiction from fact. Film archaeology does not aim to salvage a ‘true’ history, but to bring into being new versions that were hidden in the open, and to create a dialogue between the past and present.