Markus Ruff

Markus Ruff is Head of Archive Projects, Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.

Markus Ruff, born in Stuttgart in 1977, lives and works in Berlin. He studied Visual Communication and Art and Media at the University of the Arts in Berlin and spent one year studying at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires (2002–10). Since 2011, he has been section head of archival projects at Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, leading film digitization and restoration projects. Examples of Markus Ruff’s work include Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice (2011–2013), Animated Archive dedicated to the digitization of the film holdings of the National Film Institute of Guinea-Bissau, Studio Gad the digitization and preservation of the private archive holdings of the Sudanese film maker Gadalla Gubara (2013, 2016), The digital restoration of Georgian films from Arsenal’s archive (2016), an ongoing collaboration with the Nigerian Film Corporation and the National Film, Video and Sound Archive in Jos, Nigeria (since 2016), and Archive außer sich (2017–21), amongst others.