ABSTRACT
This chapter is a transcript of an interview with the late Austrian filmmaker Gustav Deutsch, conducted in 2010, about the reuse of other people’s footage, a practice that was at the heart of his work. Collaborating with international film archives meant being subjected to a variety of regulations and policies, and Deutsch reflects on the legal aspects of his work, citing many examples of his experiences in institutions around the world. On the dividing line between analogue and digital workflows, he also muses on the arguably most crucial aspect of his way of working in cultural heritage institutions worldwide.
