Archives for May2012

Amateur films from Cinémémoire Archives: ‘Mémoires méditerranéennes: Algérie ‘

Mémoires méditerranéennes: Algérie / Amateur films from Cinémémoire Archives 

Mardi 5 Juin à 18h30, à l’auditorium de l’Alcazar, 58 Cours Belsunce, 13001 Marseille, présenté par le département Civilisation et Cinémémoire, en partenariat avec la Cinémathèque de Marseille.
Screening: La Casbah d’Alger en 1928 (2 min 30) and  Communion à Alger (années 50, 3min) –  films amateur issus du fonds de Cinémémoire.

‘Towards a Definition of Amateur Film. Amateur film, Benjamin’s Aura and the Archive’

Read online Eva Hielscher’s Ph.D dissertation on ‘Towards a Definition of Amateur Film. Amateur film, Benjamin’s Aura and the Archive‘, University of Amsterdam.
Available at ACSN Small-Gauge and Amateur Film Bibliography

 

Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia: Current project

Progetto Citta in Movimento
Il quotidiano nei filmati di famiglia dei cittadini milanesi

Proiezione con sonorizzazione dal vivo – Incontri – Workshop – Concorso

23-24 maggio 2012
Milano, Mediateca di Santa Teresa
Via della Moscova 28

Città in Movimento è un progetto di messa in rete e valorizzazione di archivi pubblici milanesi (AESS – Archivio di Etnografia e Storia Sociale della Regione Lombardia, Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Mediateca Santa Teresa – Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense) che restituisce alla cittadinanza i documenti conservati per trasformarli in storie e memorie condivise.
L’obiettivo è raccontare l’evoluzione di Milano tra XX e XXI secolo con gli strumenti della microstoria: documenti audiovisivi amatoriali, fondi filmici e fotografici familiari, racconti biografici e autobiografici che diventano patrimonio collettivo.

 

Home Movies at Holmfirth Film Festival on 22nd May 2012

Heather Norris Nicholson presented a session on Home Movies at the Holmfirth Film Festival on 22nd May 2012 at 3pm

Website Updates

Welcome to the ACSN website and many thanks to those who have already sent their comments and suggestions.

Below are the latest updates:

A new page on Projects (under Network) that includes

  • Changing platforms of ritualized memory practices: the cultural dynamics of home movies’, Netherlands (2011-2015)
  • ‘Children and Amateur Media in Scotland’,  UK (2010 – 2014)
  • Film Fairfilm Project, USA (ongoing)
  • Stichting Amateurfilm Foundation (since 2004), Netherlands.
Conference and Events:

Research

  • Alison Kahn
  • Charles Tepperman
  • Graeme Spurr

Courses:

  • Prof. Annette Brauerhoch, ‘Home Movie Day Paderborn’, Universität Paderborn, Germany. Prof. Brauerhoch regularly teaches classes on Super 8 and amateur film and, together with her class, conducts research into regional amateur filmmaking.

Bibliography:

  • Cuevas, E.
  • Danks, A
  • Edmonds, G.
  • Kattelle A.
  • McGrath  C.
  • Tepperman C.
  • Roepke, M.

Filmography & Artworks:

  • Persistent Visions (Erika Tan, UK, 2005, 23.48 min; multimedia installation using archival amateur films)

 

  • All registered members are now able to start exchanging news and comments on this post

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