ABSTRACT Film festivals have had a strong impact on small cinemas, contributing to the dynamic trends of national fields of film production. Drawing on research experience of mapping Chilean film festivals for the first time, this article discusses the methods used to identify film festivals and to reconstruct their historical trajectories. The article explores the strategies used to assemble fragmented and dispersed historical data from written and oral sources, by using both archival and ethnographic approaches. Examining the Chilean case, which involves smaller, lesser known and under researched film festivals, aims to shed some light on the challenges involved in researching the ephemeral cultural landscapes created by film festivals in precarious contexts. The article argues that festivals’ positioning as ever-present events means that they tend to lose their memories and have complicated relationships with their own pasts. This also has an impact on the ways in which we can study and understand the festival phenomenon. Researchers need to consider multiple methods and research strategies, involving a range of epistemological and ethical issues, which can both enrich and complicate film festival research.

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绘制历史和存档临时景观：研究小型电影节的策略和挑战

摘要电影节对小型电影院产生了重大影响，促进了国家电影制作领域的动态发展。本文首次借鉴了智利电影节的制图研究经验，讨论了识别电影节和重建电影节历史轨迹的方法。本文探讨了通过档案和人种学方法来组合来自书面和口头来源的零散和分散的历史数据的策略。考察涉及较小，鲜为人知且正在研究中的电影节的智利案例，旨在阐明在不稳定的背景下研究电影节所产生的短暂文化景观所涉及的挑战。文章认为，节日被定位为永远存在的事件，意味着节日往往会失去记忆，并且与自己的过去有着复杂的关系。这也影响了我们学习和理解节日现象的方式。研究人员需要考虑多种方法和研究策略，其中涉及一系列认识论和伦理问题，这些问题可以使电影节的研究更加丰富和复杂。