Archives for June2014

‘La Pêche aux Archives’ project – Cinememoire

The story of Bouches-du-Rhone told by amateur film – a project recently launched by Cinememoire, Marseille.
“Cinémémoire lance une expérience réflexive sur l’histoire locale des Bouches du Rhône racontée par le cinéma amateur. Une cartographie cinématographique qui donnera lieu à des collectes, projections, rencontres… dans les villes et villages du département…”

Home Movies & the Modern American Road Trip

See Have Camera – Will Travel Collection on ‘going West and home movie making’, TAMI.

Collecting & digitizing (amateur) films about Texas

See Texas Archive of the Moving Image‘s (TAMI) programme ‘Texas Film Round-Up‘, June 2014: free digitisation programme for Texas-related films and videos, including amateur films and home movies.

‘Picturing the Family’

Several research papers on amateur cinema studies to be presented at the ‘Picturing the Family: media, narrative, memory’ conference, Birkbeck, University of London, 10-11 July 2014. Programme available here

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