The End of Missing Image as we know it

Missing Image has closed its doors. There was a complex amount of reasons for it, however, it seemed to be the right moment. In the sense not to stuck in an annoying routine, but also, more evidently, the store became a far too expensive hobby which finally got too exhaustive for one person's responsibility.

We are not desperate. In the last four years we rather experienced an often enthusiastic response and somehow urge to the idea of a contemporary form of film library but we also realized that the lovely idea is caught in a constant and tricky conflict with efficiency and the well known economical logic of private business. Finally, the business-model collapsed, public interest probably didn't.

Now the challenge would be to develop and organize new and flexible forms of digital film-distribution, either online and/or spread in different places in the city which needn't to be what we used to call a videostore, or possibly in collaboration with institutions who share the desire to make their archives productive, alive and accessible to a broader audience.

Anyway, responsibility has to shift and split up - to a community that is interested not just to collect but to circulate films. We neither need complaints nor mercy, but don't hesitate to tell us your groundbreaking ideas or to offer noble donations.

Thanks a lot for your reliance in the last years

Your Missing Team