Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire, the regional agency for books and visual media, provides a public cultural service resulting from a partnership between the Centre-Val de Loire Region and the French government. It is chaired by Julie Gayet and directed by Philippe Germain.
The agency offers a wide range of services and initiatives, ranging from the administration of support funds for cinema, audiovisual media, and the book sector to the consolidation of projects and career paths for professionals and artists through training and residencies, as well as educational programs on film and books during school hours and after-school activities.
Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire enables as many people as possible—residents and citizens alike—to access cinematic and literary works throughout the region, which is characterized by its rural nature. All of these initiatives and services have demonstrated their coherence and relevance, making Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire a one-of-a-kind organization that relies on the sustained support and trust of public authorities on its board of directors, as well as on the expertise and professionalism of its teams based in Château-Renault, Vendôme, Issoudun, and Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle.
Since 2006, Ciclic has been commissioned by the Centre-Val de Loire Region and the French government to collect, preserve, digitize, index, and promote the region’s film and audiovisual heritage in order to build a regional film archive. The agency is restoring these collections to their rightful place and firmly anchoring them in the present by making them available to artists for contemporary creations. The agency also ensures that they are made available to the general public.

Ciclic is a EPCC (Public Institution for Cultural Coopération)

Since 2006, Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire has been commissioned to collect, preserve, digitize, index, and promote the region’s film and audiovisual heritage in order to build a regional film archive. The agency is restoring these collections to their rightful place and firmly anchoring them in the present by making them available to artists for contemporary creations. The agency also ensures that they are made available to the general public.
The purpose of this presentation is to provide you with the information you need to understand the Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire collection: What kind of team? What technical resources? What types of films? etc. But also, and most importantly, how the agency’s heritage team works with you to bring your idea or concept to life.

Rémi Pailhou

Lead of archive department. As head of the heritage department at the Ciclic agency for the past eight years, he has worked to make the collection more accessible and to craft a new narrative around amateur film. With a background in history, Rémi Pailhou initially pursued a career in public education. After earning a master’s degree in history from Bordeaux Montaigne University in 2014, he focused his research on the relationship between film imagery and history.
This academic experience led him to the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) to further develop his skills in audiovisual archives. He completed this training through a work-study program in the documentation department at Métropole Télévision (M6).

Léonie Pessey-Magnifique

Technical coordinator After completing a first master degree in film studies in France and in Germany with a focus on independent cinema and cultural studies, Léonie Pessey-Magnifique specialized in audiovisual archives preservation by completing a second master degree at INA (National Institute for Archives of the French Television). After specializing in preservation at Arsenal Filminstitut (Berlin) and in film repair at L’Immagine Ritrovata (Paris), she is now working as Technical Coordinator at Ciclic Centre – Val de Loire Archives which has been safeguarding film heritage from the region since 2006.