Top 5 Archive-Based Films Selected by the Expert
A truly special list all coming from the archive of Czech Television, as archivist Martin Bouda lets us know his top archive-based films and series.
Top 5 Archive-Based Films Selected by the Expert
This week expert Montserrat Bailac of Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals tells us the story behind her favourite archive-based films. 1. The historical “El Perro Negro” “El Perro Negro (2005)”
Video Collection: Royal Weddings
With the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle taking place little over a week ago; this months’ Video Collection reveals nine video’s of
Top 5 Archive-Based Films Selected by the Expert
In this first part of a new serie, where we search for the best archive-based films, Krisztina Tajta of the National Audiovisual Archive in Hungary tells
The Farewell Symposium of Sonja de Leeuw: An Unforgettable Day
The Many Lives of Sonja de Leeuw; Symposium and Farewell Lecture on May 16th, 2018 On the occasion of Sonja de Leeuw’s retirement, her colleagues Jasmijn
How the Right Governance Can Strengthen Audiovisual Broadcast Archives
Recently we had the pleasure of talking with Prof. Dr. Katharine Sarikakis about the research project she supervised: The Governance of Cultural Memory Through Audiovisual
Historicizing Home Movie Practices: Two Complementary Perspectives
Recently, two doctoral dissertations on the home movie as a twentieth-century cultural practice saw the light of day. Tim van der Heijden defended his dissertation
Announcing the Summer School: “Moving Image Memory Cultures”
Date: September 24 to 28, 2018 Location: Potsdam Organized by: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam and Brandenburg Center for Media Studies Funded
Video Collection: Jazz Music
“Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life”, said jazz legend Art Blakey. Although jazz is a difficult music genre to describe, it is also
Radio-television Vojvodina on Europeana
We are very happy to announce that as of this month twenty-five items of Radio-television Vojvodina became available on the portal of Europeana. Working together with
Quality management within digitization projects: an insight into the Memoriav training day 2018
On March 8, 2018 Memoriav, the association in charge of fostering audiovisual archives preservation projects in Switzerland, held a training dedicated to quality management within
Video Collection: Sports Activities
The Danish kangaroo bike, a popular folk sport and old clips of the Tour de France. In this video collection, you can see different sports
The E-RIHS project: A New Research Infrastructure in the European Heritage Science
Heritage is a key component of the European identity. The study and preservation of cultural and natural heritage is a global challenge for science and
Future past: will archives survive digitisation?
The evolution of preserving analogue through digital means is a recurrent subject and of great importance to the future of archiving. Do the people working
The Roles They Are A-Shiftin’: Challenges and Possibilities for Tool Criticism
In my previous blog post, ‘Quantifying Autobiography‘, I introduced the ‘Me & Myself‘ (M&M) pilot project, for which I am a research assistant. In this post
IDFA Industry Session: From Archive to Storytelling
This past November, the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) hosted the panel discussion Industry Session: From Archive to Storytelling. The guests were archive-researcher James McDonald
EUscreen recommends: Copyright (and) Culture: the governance of audiovisual archives
“Copyright (and) Culture: the governance of audiovisual archives” is written by Katharine Sarikakis, Olga Kolokytha and Krisztina Rozgonyi, all working at the Department of Communications of
Music in Movement: an interactive guide to contemporary classical music
Music in Movement (MiM) is an interactive guide to the life and work of the greatest composers of contemporary classical music. Reusing unique archival resources