(English) Film archives’ offer during the COVID-19 crisis: Part 1

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ACE has decided to highlight the initiatives organised by its members during these difficult times, in which film archives have to reinvent themselves online. It’s in moments like these that we need culture, cinema, more than ever. After exploring the Italian film archives’ initiatives, now it is time to explore the francophone area’s offer.

LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE offers on its website more than 800 videos that include cinema lessons from some of the biggest authors and actors, conferences and video-essays. It is also possible to read more than 500 articles, to discover the gems from its collection. To find out more, click on the following link: https://www.cinematheque.fr/decouvrir.html Since the cinema has been shut down since March, the Cinémathèque française has decided to open a movie theater named Henri, after the film archive’s founder Henri Langlois: a screening every evening at 20h30. To find out more, click on the following link: https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/

Wednesday 1 April 2020

(English) New Deadline for Submissions for Film:ReStored 2020

Film:ReStored 2020 has decided to postpone the deadline for subsmissions for this years edition due to the circumstances related to the Corona epidemic. The deadline is now on May 15th.

For more information, click on the following link: https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/en/visit/festivals-symposiums

Thursday 26 March 2020

(English) Recipients of the ACE scolarships for FIAF Film Restoration Summer School

ACE has decided to award 5 (one more than last year) deserving participants of the 2020 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School with a scholarship in the amount of 750€:

– Katarzyna Balcerowska (Poland)

– Paulo Cartaxo (Portugal)

– Markus Maicher (Austria)

– Sophie Tupholme (United Kingdom)

– Marko Turkus (Slovenia)

To find out more click on the following link: http://www.immagineritrovata.it/it/summer-school/

Wednesday 18 March 2020

(English) How Italian Film Archives are reacting to the COVID-19 crisis

In these troubling times where cinemas have to close down because of safety issues, we need culture more than ever. We want to use this space to highlight initiatives offered by film archives which can let the general audience discover film history from the comfort of one’s house. This first installment will revolve around the activities of three Italian film archives: Cineteca di Bologna, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, La Cineteca del Friuli e Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino.

Monday 16 March 2020

(English) Digital Archive Summer School | 14-18 Sept. 2020

This summer, for the first time ever, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF will organise the Digital Archives Summer School in collaboration with the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin. It is a 5-day, practice-oriented educational offer directed at staff members of audiovisual archives who are interested in enhancing their knowledge about digital environments and processes.

This first edition focuses especially on the subject of data literacy and presentation strategies. Lectures, seminars and exercises will explore subjects such as conversion, digital preservation, storytelling and visualisation.

Thursday 5 March 2020

(English) Public lecture series This is Film! on recycling, re-using and remixing archival film

Image credits: Aurora Goes to Holland (USA, Jonathon Rosen, 2015)

This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice is Eye’s annual public lecture series with international guest speakers and remarkable archival footage. Together with invited guests, each of the six sessions will touch upon different forms of creative archival reuse: from compilation film to audiovisual immersive VJ set, from controversial 3D film to real-time VR experience.

This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice runs from March 11 until May 20 on Wednesday at 3.30pm in Eye, IJpromenade 1, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, eyefilm.nl/thisisfilm
The lectures are in English and can be attended as a series or on a one-off basis

Each session will feature an introduction by Giovanna Fossati (Chief Curator at Eye and Professor of Film Heritage at the University of Amsterdam), followed by a talk by, or interview and Q&A with, an international expert on the topic and a film screening or performance.

Sunday 23 February 2020

(English) Film:ReStored_05 — Call for Submissions

The festival “Film:ReStored”, an event of the Deutsche Kinemathek dedicated to film heritage in the difficult scenario of the digital age, has reached its fifth edition, which will take place from October 27 to November 1 at the Filmhaus in Berlin. Even though the festival has always concerned mainly German film heritage and domestic digitalization with the addition of some international guests, the fifth edition, thanks to its theme “A European Affair”, will have a decidedly European orientation. Preservation, restoration and access to film heritage are concerns common to all film archives and now it is time to develop a pan-European perspective on film heritage in the digital age.

Monday 20 January 2020

(English) Fellini100: celebrations all over Europe

The year 2020 marks the 100^th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Italian director, Federico Fellini. This is how Fellini100 was born, an Italian celebratory project supported by eight Institutions: Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Regione Emilia-Romagna, MiBACT, Comune di Rimini, Cineteca di Bologna, Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, Cineteca Nazionale and Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino. Many ACE members have decided to take part to this project, organizing events to celebrate the genius of this director. There are just a few of the many initiatives:

Saturday 18 January 2020

(English) 2020 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School – registration open

The Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE), Cineteca di Bologna and L’Immagine Ritrovata are eager to announce that the ninth FIAF Film Restoration Summer School will take place during summer 2020 in Bologna, confirming the good results of their long lasting cooperation. The application process will close on the 16^th February 2020.

Since 2007 these institutions have been promoting an ideal of shared knowledge in the field of film restoration offering the opportunity to specialists, film archive staff and students to experience the complete restoration workflow through the use of photochemical and digital technologies in a two-decade experienced film restoration laboratory.

Wednesday 4 December 2019

(English) Stumfilm – free streaming platform for Danish silent films

Silent movies are usually absent in the streaming realm. Archives or YouTube can be the first stop for such works, but usually this comes with much search or a comprises. In this panorama, the Danish Film Institute’s initiative is particularly significant. Stumfilm.dk has been created as part of an ongoing restoration project and its objective is to highlight the importance of Denmark’s film industry in the beginning of the 20^th century, an age when stars like Asta Nielsen, Valdemar Psilander and Gunnar Tolnæs found fame. The platform launched with 40 films, but more than 400 made between 1897 and 1928 will be added over the span of the four-year long project. In addition, a three-year research project between Denmark and Germany will help in mapping out the traffic of ideas and people between these two countries, who leaded the silent film era.