The Buenos Aires film community sounded the alarm on Wednesday after heavy rain flooded the new storage facility of the Pablo Ducrós Hicken Film Museum in Parque Patricios, putting part of its non-film archive at risk.

Books, magazines, documents, and posters were among the materials affected after water overflowed inside the building on Amancio Alcorta Avenue, where the first stage of the museum’s relocation had only recently been completed. 

The Friends of the Film Museum Association, an advocacy institution independent from the city government, posted videos of the flood on Instagram, showing museum workers trying to salvage wet cardboard boxes filled with museum content.

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“We share our deep concern over the conditions at the new site of the Buenos Aires Film Museum, located on Amancio Alcorta Avenue,” they wrote. 

“Following the first phase of moving the non-film archive and library, this is the current situation — before unpacking has even........

© Buenos Aires Herald