Archives for June2013

CNA Luxembourg – 10,000 amateur films

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Le Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), Luxembourg, holds over 10.000 amateur films (8mm, S8, 9,5mm, 16mm and 35mm) made between 1920- 1990. It also promotes amateur cinema studies by organising conferences on this theme and through various publications such as

Tourists & Nomads: Amateur Images of Migration, eds. Sonja Kmec and Viviane Thill. Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 2012.

Private Eyes and the Public Gaze: The manipulation and Valorisation of Amateur Images, eds. Sonja Kmec and Viviane Thill. Kilomedia, 2009.

 

 

NECS Conference – papers on amateur cinema studies

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The NECS Conference, 20-22 June 2013, includes the following papers on amateur cinema studies:

– Eliska Decka – ‘Animate It Yourself! Professional Amateurism in the Production and Distribution of Today’s Independent Animation in New York’

– Aleksandra Sekulic – ‘Low-Fi Video Festivals as Performance of Microcinema and Yugoslav Cine-Amateurism’

– Andrea Mariani – “Fascistically Made”: The Politicization of Amateur Cinema in Fascist Italy’

– Jiří Horníček – ‘The Amateur Film Movement in Czechoslovakia at the Beginning of Communist Dictatorship (1948-1951)’

– Chris Wahl – “Between Private and Professional: The Corporate Film Studio of GDR’s Largest Steel Mill EKO Eisenhüttenstadt (1958-1989)”

– Maria Vinogradova – ‘Amateurs in Demand: Filmmaking Technology, Scarcity and the Making of Soviet Amateur Cinema (1957–1967)’

– Melinda Blos-Jáni – ‘Men with the Movie Camera between 1945 and 1989: Domesticating Moving Image Technology under Communism’

2013 NECS programme.

Programme for “Wunderkino 3. Visions of Travel and Mobility” symposium

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The final programme for the 14th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium: “Wunderkino 3. Visions of Travel and Mobility” is available at NHF SYMPOSIUM 2013.

‘Watching Syria’s War’

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‘Watching Syria’s War‘: amateur videos are being continuously uploaded on The New York Times project webpage.

14th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, July 2013

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25-27 July 2013: 14th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, Bucksport, Maine, USA.
“The NHF Summer Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, and preservation of amateur and nontheatrical moving images. For over a decade, the Symposium has been bringing together archivists, scholars, and artists in an intimate setting for three days of viewing and discussing lesser-known, amateur, and found films.”

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