Online Public Lecture Series This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice
The 7th edition of Eye’s annual public lectures series This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice is the first one to be available online. With this series, Eye aims to interest a wider audience for issues related to the preservation, restoration and presentation of film heritage. Throughout 6 sessions, this edition focusses on the overarching theme of re-use and recycle of archival films from different perspectives. All lectures and Q&A sessions with guest speakers are available on YouTube. A selection of films screened during the sessions is available on the Eye Film Player.
Introduction by Giovanna Fossati (Chief Curator at Eye and Professor of Film Heritage at the University of Amsterdam). Q&A in collaboration with the Master students of the This is Film! class at the University of Amsterdam.
Programme
This is Film! #1: Copyright
Guest: Claudy Op den Kamp (Programme Leader BA (Hons) Film, Bournemouth University, GB)
Screening: Film ist. a girl & a gun (Gustav Deutsch, AT 2009, 35mm)
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This is Film! #2: the Polaroid Effect
Guest: Jens Meurer (Filmmaker/Producer)
Screening: An Impossible Project (DE, 2020, 35mm)
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This is Film! #3: the Afghan Film Archive
Guest: Ariel Nasr (Filmmaker)
Screening: The Forbidden Reel (CA, 2019, 2K DCP)
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This is Film! #4: Restoration or Re-appropriation?
Guests: Matthew Lee (Head of Film at Imperial War Museums) and David Walsh (Training and Outreach Coordinator for FIAF)
Screening: They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson, NZ/GB 2018, 3D, DCP)
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This is Film! #5: Bits and Pieces and the VJ
Guest: Rossella Catanese (VJ, Postdoc Researcher at University of Udine, Adjunct Professor at NYU Florence)
Screening: Live VJ performance featuring the Bits and Pieces Collection. Music by Jan Willem Hagenbeek
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This is Film! #6: Archival films and VR
Guests: Oscar Raby (Creative Director of VRTOV), Richard Misek (Filmmaker and Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent), Charlie Shackleton (Filmmaker and Film Critic)
Screening: A Machine for Viewing (Richard Misek, Charlie Shackleton and Oscar Raby, GB/AU 2019, 360° Interactive VR) & compilation of film essays by Richard Misek and Charlie Shackleton
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